I’m back with the meal prep for weight loss post! I’m trying to make this a weekly type of post and keep things interesting.
This week I prepped for myself since I was home dog-sitting for my parents. I only fully prepped for 4 days, but I have enough leftover chicken for the rest of the week! You can watch the meal prep here, too.
Anyway, I decided to go as simple as possible this week for my meal prep. All my vegetables and carbs were steam bags – so they went from the freezer straight to the microwave! It’s just easier to create less of a mess while I’m at my parents’ house.
What I Made:
Lunch: Pork, broccoli and cauliflower, and potatoes
Dinner: Chicken, cauliflower mash, cauliflower
I sweat it’s not as boring as it sounds. Just look at the pictures!
How I Made Lunch:
I threw this broccoli and cauliflower bag into the microwave, then microwaved this bag of potatoes.
Eventually I grilled pork chops with my favorite seasoning/marinade! (This is the chicken marinade)
In the end I just divided all the veggies into 4 containers evenly, and I weighed out about 3 ounces of boneless, thin pork chops – and BAM! Done.
Lunch
Ingredients
- 4 thin, boneless pork chops
- 1 packet McCormick Mesquite Marinade
- 1 bag steamfresh broccoli & cauliflower
- 1 bag Birdseye Steamfresh Salt and Vinegar potatoes
Instructions
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Mix marinade with water
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Put thawed out pork chops in the marinade and let sit for up to 30 minutes
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Put broccoli and cauliflower in the microwave following directions on the bag
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Put potatoes in the microwave when the veggies are done
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Grill pork chops on medium-high heat for 3 minutes on each side or until done
How I Made Dinner:
Since I was being lazy, I microwaved cauliflower, mashed cauliflower, and grilled chicken with this.
I divided the veggies and evenly as I could (because life isn’t that serious where you have to weigh it all out), and then I weighed out 4 ounces of chicken per container.
The longest part might’ve been walking from the grill to the counter inside! HA! I’m not mad about that.
Dinner
Ingredients
- 20 ounces chicken tenderloins or more
- 1 packet McCormick Baja Citrus marinade only use water!
- 1 bag SteamReady Cauliflower
- 1 container Green Giant Cauliflower Mash
Instructions
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Mix marinade with water
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Mix with chicken, let marinade up to 30 minutes
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Microwave steam ready cauliflower, according to the directions on the bag
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Microwave Green Giant cauliflower mash according to the directions
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Grill the chicken for 3-4 minutes on each side, or until done
Macros:
Lunch is 279 calories | 19 Carbs | 11 Fat | 24 Protein
Dinner is 262 calories | 12 Carbs | 9 Fat | 32 Protein
That’s pretty low carb if you ask me. I’m not aiming for low carb specifically, I just prefer to eat my carbs as snacks more than anything else – so that’s how I plan my meals.
I’m not one of those people who is scared shitless of carbs – that’s silly. Carbs are delicious and carbs are LIFE! How can someone live without rice, pasta, bread, cereal, potatoes and all the other yummy carbs? That’s a rant for another post. For now, enjoy the recipe below and the youtube video here.
