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Clean Eating Meal Prep : Week #1





For my first "clean eating" weekly meal prep, I decided to focus on doing one meal as low carb and one meal with carbs.

Here is my meal plan for this week! 


Breakfast
This is usually my most hectic meal of the day. I usually wake up at 5am to kick start my day. This comprises of drinking my coffee, clearing out emails, catching up on my favorite lifestyle blogs, exercising (a new welcome addition to my morning routine!), and getting ready for work. As hard as I've tried, making a freshly cooked breakfast rarely happens. Mostly because I'm rushing to get ready to get showered and dressed for work. In the future, I plan on fitting in a cleaner breakfast into my diet, but for the first week I'm going to stick to my go-to frozen turkey sausage/egg/cheddar breakfast sandwich from the SmartOnes brand. Out of all the frozen breakfast sandwiches, this is the most well-balanced ones I've found. It contains only 480mg of sodium but a whopping 14g of protein, 7g of fat, and 14g of carbs. It keeps me full for about 2-3 hours, which is less than a freshly cooked egg and toast breakfast would, but it definitely does the trick on busy workday mornings. 


Lunch
This is my low-carb meal. Cauliflower rice, green bell peppers, and tofu. Very wholesome and super yummy too! Only thing not pictured below is the tzatziki sauce that I bought from Whole Foods to go along with the dish. 







Dinner
Healthy Chicken Parmesan from the Half Baked Harvest book
I also roasted up some broccolini spiced with olive oil, garlic powder, black pepper, and some crushed red peppers to go along with the chicken parm. 
Not pictured here since I forgot to take a picture is the angel hair pasta with arrabiatta sauce that I made to go along with the chicken








Snacks
- Red grapes
- Lightly salted cashew 100 calorie snack packs
- Pepperjack string cheese
- Siggi's yogurt cups
- SkinnyPop sea salt & pepper popcorn
- Quinoa cheddar puffs

Hydration goal
32oz of water per day -- this week's infusion is cucumber & lemon! 
I've found that water infusion is a really good way that encourages me to keep up with my water intake goals. My favorite infusion is with cucumber slices and lemon slices. I take a full pitcher of water and drop some cucumber and lemon slices, then stick it in the fridge overnight. Yummy, sugar-free, fat-free, natural/clean, and amazing! 


I'll tune in on Friday to give an update on how the week goes! 

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