Meal Planning and Staying on Track!

Hey y'all! So it's been quite awhile since I've blogged, but I'm back! 

Here's just a short catch up..

-My school year has started off great and we've been extremely busy!

-We've been implementing STEM in our classroom. It has really exposed my students to more science vocabulary and experiments.

-I've kept up with my goal of no frozen dinners. I've successfully made my lunch every day of the school year so far!

-I've started back at the gym and loving it! I am working towards my goal of running a 5k again this year.

Me being back at the gym has lead into my blog post today. I joined a motivational fitness group with some fellow IGers. So this blog post is for you ladies! I'm sharing with you my meal planning and prep for the week.

Now let me just say that these recipes/meals will not be perfect by any means. They will also be dairy free so you can add or change whatever you need to! I do what works for me! 

Here's what I have planned for the week...

My lunches will look like this.

I have tuna, turkey lunch meat, pepperoni slices, whole grain wheat thins, and 2 oranges. I will be eating these Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday-Friday I will be doing the same thing, except I will replace the tuna with hummus. 

I usually cook my dinners in large amounts and eat on it for a few days. Tonight I cooked "meatball pasta." It's just like spaghetti but I use penne pasta. I paired it with Green Giant's just for one corn bowl. I love those things! It keeps me from having to cook a whole lot of vegetables at once and them going to waste. 

Here's the recipe I use:

-1 box penne pasta

-1 jar spaghetti sauce (I used a garlic herb, HEB brand)

-5-6 meatballs (You can make homemade but I keep a bag of frozen ones in my freezer. I also cut them in half so I can keep it portioned.)

That's it! I don't like a lot of meat in my sauce so I only add meatballs. Of course if you wanted you could add ground turkey or beef. 

I've got my dinner for the next 3 nights! :)

If you follow me on IG (Instagram) you saw a picture I posted a few weeks ago about my meal planning. I like to plan out all my meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner) for the whole month. It keeps me on track, helps with grocery shopping, and also keeps me from grabbing fast food! Now I'm not currently doing what my calendar says dinner wise, but I pushed everything back a few days. These calendars give me the flexibility to move things around. Once I figure out how to upload my calendars here then I will allow you all to see them! :)

I hope everyone has a great week! Eat some good food and get in some good workouts! :)

Live, laugh, love

Rachel