One of the easiest ways to stay on track with healthy eating is to prepare your week's meals in advance. This week, I'm going to show you a quick and easy meal prep that's healthy — and tastes good. There's even a dessert.
Meal: (makes 3 meals)
You'll need:
3 chicken breasts
1 ½ cups quinoa
diced red onion
18 tbsp liquid egg whites (6 tbsp per meal)
4 cups spinach
tofu noodles (optional 1 package per meal)
Instructions:
Cook quinoa according to package instructions
Begin cooking chicken breasts — don't forget your seasoning!
While chicken and quinoa are cooking, pour liquid egg whites in a microwave-safe bowl and cook until completely done.
Peel and cut veggies and place them in containers.
Continue flipping and cooking chicken. The quinoa should be done at this point.
Add spinach to meal containers.
Mix chopped red onions and egg whites into cooked quinoa and divide into four containers on top of spinach.
Slice and dice cooked chicken and place on top of meals.
Voila! Your meals are complete!
Snack:
½ red, yellow and orange peppers
½ cucumber
2 tbsp edamame hummus
Peanut Butter Protein Balls: (makes 16 balls)
You'll need:
1 cup PB2
2/3 cup Joseph's all natural sugar-free syrup
1 tsp alt
1 cup Garden of Life raw vanilla protein powder
1 squeeze pouch chocolate hazelnut butter
1 handful semi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions:
Mix all ingredients in bowl
Freeze in freezer for 10 minutes
Remove from freezer and add chocolate chips
Roll dough into 16 small balls and place back in freezer for an hour.
Enjoy! I even took the liberty to break down the macros for this yummy treat — you're welcome!
