Posts tagged protein
How To: Meal Prepping Basics

Let's start with the basics of planning your shopping trip to planning out your meals for the week.  First, decide if you are the type of person that gets bored with food easily, or you can roll with it as long as its planned out.  I'm DEFINITELY the type that gets bored and I really don't life leftovers for more than a day MAX two post cooking.  I just prefer my ingredients fresh.

Second, pick your go-to proteins.  This can be a range or stick with one particular protein like chicken.  If you are vegetarian is it tempeh, beans, legumes, soy, etc.  Or maybe you want a variety.  That's fine too, just choose your proteins as a base.

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Cherry Chocolate Overnight Oats

Who doesn't love chocolate?  And with cherries?!?  I mean, this has to be one of my favorite smoothie and now oat concoctions!  I need to have something readily accessible for my husband and I to grab and go in the morning.  We are both usually busy with our little one and out the door to work or I'm off teaching a fitness class!  Life is just easier if we have something that's readily available to us to grab and head out of the door without having to grab something that isn't so healthy.

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