Meal Plan December 6-12
Breakfast
This week is all about keeping it simple. I’ll be sticking with my muesli + greek yogurt + collagen peptides for an easy and portable breakfast that I can prep ahead.
The macros:
F: 3 g
C: 28g
P: 37g
Lunch
This is one of my busiest weeks between holiday happenings + teaching + all the girls’ activities, so I’m batch grilling chicken and veggies for my lunches this week. The salad here is high in fat and low in protein, so not a great option for me as a main dish unless I sub in some lean protein! The salad recipe is from Cookie + Kate’s cookbook Love Real Food which is worth buying if you are looking for ways to spice up salads and get more veggies in on a daily basis. The Balsamic Herb Grilled chicken marinade is from Lillie Eats and Tells and is a winner! Just marinade a whole bag of frozen chicken, throw it all on the grill, and you have chicken for days, you can also freeze the cooked chicken for quick lunches and dinners later.
Macros:
F: 21.5g (the salad is 20!)
C: 18g
P: 35.9g
Dinner
Okay, you will begin to notice a trend here for dinners! In the spirit of quick prep but BIG flavor, and craving allllll the soups, we have a lot of creamy, soupy meals!
Here are the macros for each:
F: 4g C: 57g P: 26g
Turkey Bolognese over Spaghetti Squash (served with a cup of arugula and Lemon Vinaigrette)
F: 15g C: 21g P: 25g
Smoky Chickpea & Red Lentil Soup (served with the grilled chicken linked in the lunch recipes, for macro purposes, I’m only including the soup macros)
F: 9g C: 70g P: 18g
Instant Pot Chicken Taco Chili
F: 3g C: 26g P:23g
Snacks
One of my favorite things about planning is running numbers and understanding what my flexibility per day is. For instance, when I ran Monday’s supposed numbers (I say supposed because who KNOWS how the day will go sometimes), these were my final numbers not including snacks:
F: 28.5g C: 103g P: 99g
This gives me 10g of fat, 40g of protein, and 60g of protein to get in during snacks. So for my morning snacks, I’ll do a snack bento of cheese, veggies, and a hardboiled egg . And for afternoon snack, I’ll probably do a clean simple eats protein shake with a Chomps stick and some veggies.
