Monday Food Prep: Week of July 21-27

You know what day it is? That’s right, it’s Monday! And here on my blog that means my Monday Food prep post!!  Yay! I know, I am excited too 🙂 (Oh boy, I’m so lame 🙂  )

Back when I was working a 9 to 5 job (before-Z), I always hated Mondays because it was the first day back from the weekend which, also meant 4 more days until the  next weekend. It was a vicious cycle! Since, I have switched my food prep to Mondays, I now look forward to this day because that means my fridge is full of good food for the week ahead.

Grocery List:

• Lindsay black olives (Costco)
• Celery sticks (Costco)
• Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf whole beans (Costco)
• Broccoli (Costco)
• Raspberries (Costco)
• 2 (18 ct) eggs (Costco)
• Boneless skinless chicken breasts (Costco)
• ground beef (Costco)
• Flaxseed meal (Sprouts)
• roasted unsalted sunflower seeds (Sprouts)
• banana chips (Sprouts)
• raisins (Sprouts)
• whole raw cashews (Sprouts)
• Light tuna -canned (Sprouts)
• Thai Kitchen coconut milk-canned (Sprouts)
• sunflower seed butter (Sprouts)
• Applegate breakfast pork sausage (Sprouts)
• baby carrots (Sprouts)
• black seedless grapes (Sprouts)
• green cabbage (Sprouts)
• Italian parsley (Sprouts)
• red beets (Sprouts)
• blueberries (Sprouts)
• red leaf lettuce (Sprouts)
• spaghetti squash (Sprouts)
• yellow onions (Sprouts)
• yellow peaches (Sprouts)

Farm Fresh To You box delivery:

• heirloom tomatoes
• Valencia oranges
• hass avocados
• black seedless grapes
• mission figs
• red bell pepper
• green beans
• cucumber
• red kale

 

 

 

Food prepped:

• hard-boiled eggs (snack/extra protein)
• rinse olives (snack/healthy fat/oil)
• Mediterranean tuna salad (lunch)
• steam broccoli (side dish)
• bake whole sweet potatoes (side dish)
• cut up celery (snack)
• roast red beets (for marinated beet recipe) (side dish)
• bake spaghetti squash (to add to Pad Thai recipe) (dinner)

Breakfast idea(s):

• scrambled eggs + side of veggies/or starchy veggie
• breakfast sausage w/ an egg + a side of veggies/or starchy veggie (if need more carbs)

Lunch Ideas:

• Italian Antipasto platter (Well Fed by Melissa Joulwan) (Mediterranean Tuna Salad)
• Hot plate–(French) chicken w/ green beans (Dijon/lemon pepper/tarragon) on a bed of baby spinach or other greens ( Well Fed by Melissa Joulwan)

snacks:

• celery + sunflower seed butter + raisins
• hard-boiled eggs + black olives
• bake sweet potato (pre-long runs)

Dinner Ideas:

• Pad Thai (Well Fed by Melissa Joulwan)
• Plantain Tostada w/ cilantro-lime chicken and ranchero sauce (see below)
• Chicken Divan (Popular Paleo)

I finally made the Plantain tostada recipe last night for dinner. The meal was a nice change of pace but, according to my hubby, “I wouldn’t consider this a Mexican dish?!”.  This coming from the same person who had never had an enchilada until he moved out to California.  I did agree it wasn’t what you think of when you hear  Mexican food but, I really loved the ranchero sauce that I made for it. I even put the sauce on my eggs this morning 🙂 This was the first time I had ever bought and/or cooked with plantains. Plantains are very similar to bananas but, much starchier. I didn’t make this recipe last week like planned because it took over a week for the plantains to turn yellow. It was crazy long but, so worth the wait!

Here is the recipe, if you want to try it out.

Plantain Tostadas w/ cilantro-lime chicken and ranchero sauce & guacamole

 

 

I didn’t make the guacamole because our avocados weren’t ripe yet 😦

**Side note: I am using one of my favorite Paleo cookbooks this week for many of my meals, Well Fed by Melissa Joulwan, but I was unable to find some of the recipes on her blog. The only one I found was the Mediterranean tuna salad recipe. Her Pad Thai recipe I had posted on a previous post found here–>>https://onemotherofaday.wordpress.com/2013/03/09/the-wait-is-over/

 

Tried out any new recipes lately?

If you don’t follow the Paleo lifestyle, have you ever made or eaten a Paleo-inspired meal before? How did it turn out?