So I have to admit, I’m kind of already looking forward to this week. I have decided my life is just too hectic to even consider cooking when I get home at night, which at the earliest is 9:30 but usually later. So I spent a couple hours Sunday cooking up food for this week. On the menu for lunch is salmon with bacon Brussels sprouts. Options for dinner are sausages with onion, peppers, zucchini and a “creamy” tomato sauce or ground turkey with beans and spicy tomatoes. Neither are their original recipe, they are modified to suit my allergy issues and culinary ineptitude. So the first recipe I got from Everyday Paleo. Her recipe uses the zucchini like spaghetti. It looks fabulous but I just didn’t have the patience or tools to cut mine that small. So I have wedges. And since I love zucchini so much, it’s actually better because I get big wonderful juicy bites of zucchini, yes I do love summer and fresh veggies. Second the ground turkey, I originally saw the recipe as stuffing for tacos which is what happened the first time I made it. But I had leftovers, and when I heated them up for lunch the next day, the container looked and smelt good enough to just add cheese and eat. And that’s how I have been eating it ever since. Except I used to add roasted corn. It adds a great bit of crunch to it. That’s no longer an option, so I added a can of pinto’s until I figure out what else to do. Also, all breakfasts of egg whites, turkey bacon and cheese are cooked. I even cut up about 3 pounds of strawberries for deserts this week. There is bacon cooked, cheese cut up, veggies and hummus…so even snacks are covered. I couldn’t be more tickled with my week and the culinary simplicity of microwaving that lies ahead.
After all this cooking and prepping, I thought to look back at how much I spent, time and money to make it work. Costs for the food was about $110, estimating because some I bought and some I had in the freezer. The volume of food I cooked will easily get two of us through the week. That’s pretty good considering how much we eat. And in total in only took me about 4 hours to cook up. I got a little distracted while babysitting the cute little Miss Samantha Trent but still didn’t take long. Granted it’s not as simple as picking up McD’s on the way home but I will feel about 30x better the day after. Eating good takes a little more planning but it’s cheaper and better in the end. I’m looking forward to great workouts and feeling good this week, and getting a little extra sleep for not having to cook! And interested to see how this helps with my fight against the evil sugar cookie….It’s been 7 days and about 12 hours since last falling off the wagon…J
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