I've decide that I'm going to give this "meal prep" idea a go. I've been slacking on eating healthy. I have yet to gain weight but at the rate I'm going it's bound to happen. I order the stuff listed below from Amazon last night in preparation for my return to work next week. I end up drinking only a protein shake at work and then come home at night and want to eat the house. I still don't eat and drink together so when I get my 30 min break its either eat or drink. I think this will be an excellent way to keep full and focused so that I'm not eating junk when I get home. Do you meal prep for the week? What kind of foods do you make? I've found some really good YouTube videos with recipes ect...but I'm wanting to hear from the WLS community. We could even make this a "thing" if anyone else is interested in doing this together. We can take pictures and share ideas. I'm all for it! ☺️

I've just done up 8 serves of Atlantic salmon and broccolini with a garlic, chili, anchovy and mustard sauce...

That will be lunch and dinners for the week...

I'd post a pic but it looks like arse...

I've had to squash it into round containers so it's not good...

I'll do pics once I get some different containers...

Salmon is so good for you. I wish I liked it. My brother in law is a fisherman, so he gives us a good bit of salmon and I fix it for the family. I just keep trying it to see if my tastes have changed.

The health reason is the only reason I eat it @@Christinamo7

I don't like fish...

But as discussed elsewhere, I don't get hungry - so unless I've got a craving, I eat whatever is best for me...

The last two days I've been stuck on this salad. I'm eating it right now. Shredded lettuce, dried cranberries, walnuts & goat cheese with a table spoon of olive oil & vinegar dressing. It's sweet, tangy, creamy.... LOVE IT!!! It has a decent amount of Protein with the goat cheese & walnuts.

one of my very favorite salads is leftover grilled chicken breast, baby spinach, feta cheese, dried cherries and walnuts. sometimes I put a tablespoon of a champagne vinaigrette on it, sometimes not.

everytime I have it for lunch some coworker will ask me where I got it, and I just say, it's leftovers

So easy to throw together and so yummy!

That sounds good. One of my favorite salads is baby greens, red onion, gorgonzola cheese, cut up pears and grilled chicken with balsamic dijon vinaigrette dressing.

That sounds good. One of my favorite salads is baby greens, red onion, gorgonzola cheese, cut up pears and grilled chicken with balsamic dijon vinaigrette dressing.

I may have to try that next week with chicken because - *red onions!* yum. pears? mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I love all these ingredients and I have everything except the dressing, and I bet I could find a recipe online.

@@KristenLe

@@Christinamo7

Don't make any for me thanx...

I don't like pears...

KF, you could eat them anyway. they're good for you!

I'll expect you round 1pm then. :-) but not tomorrow, we're grilling out, no salad.

@@Christinamo7 I HATED salmon until I learned to take the skin off (I have the seafood guys do that) then there's a brown streak that runs down the middle I cut it out and BAM I love it!!! No more nasty fishy taste. It's like night and day. Look me years to figure that out!

@@Elode

Yep, skin off for me too...

I like the taste of the skin but I don't like the residual scales that are always there...

You miss out o a few of the good fish oils this way but I'm ok with that...

@@Christinamo7

Why do you and your kind (womenfolk) feel it necessary to toy with my emotions on so may levels..

This time, it's culinary teasing...

Am I not nice to EVERYBODY??

Am I not wise and giving?

Am I not overdoing it somewhat but at the same time, unable to stop myself??

I think that,in time, you all will see the errors of your ways...

And THAT is the day I'll be shown the respect that I so richly deserve..

Or something...

I've got a load of chicken thighs in the pressure cooker, seasoned with taco seasoning and cooked in picante sauce. Took all of three minutes to put together, and that was skinning the chicken, sprinkling the seasoning, and dumping on a jar of sauce. That will be yummy for me as-is, and Huz can put some in his burrito bowls/tacos/what-have-you. 12 minutes in the pressure cooker.

A friend at work brought a lot of this in this past week for a lunch meeting, along with taco fixings. There was plenty leftover, so I had a little with a chunk of avocado. She'd used breasts, and the meat was actually kinda tough, even though she'd used a slow cooker. Tasty, though!

KF, you're the one who eats salmon when you don't like it. I figure you should be delighted to eat pears in a salad, especially in such illustrious company. well, perhaps if you're ever in the neighborhood.

@@Elode,

Great topic! Good luck as you work on prepping your meals.

I am pretty lazy and a creature of habit when it comes to meals. A lot of my meals are pretty much readymade. For Breakfast, I might open some yogurt and throw in some blueberries, or cook some oatmeal. lunch could be a salad or sandwich. dinner usually involves a slab of Protein, such as chicken or fish, some veggies, and often a starch.

I’m not much of a cook and try to keep it so that I don’t need to prepare much ahead of time. What I do try really hard to do is make sure I plan ahead so that the foods I need are in the house and they’re ready for me to use.

@@Christinamo7 & @@Elode your salads are making me crave blue cheese on spinach with either chicken or steak!

I usually fix egg salad/tuna salad and divide out some thin lunch meat in some containers for lunch. I also divide up pork rinds, chunks of cheese, cottage cheese into separate containers and weigh it all out.

Hubby likes to eat out so I have left overs mixed in as well. He like to grill out sausage, hamburgers or chicken during the week.

@@jane13 Everyone's foods sound good. I ate that same salad twice already today and we just bought two more goat cheese with honey logs so I'm guessing it won't be ending anytime soon. It's just the greatest food!!

I also do "cold plates" a lot. I like the variety and I can put it back in the fridge and snack on it when I'm hungry. Those round things are crackers made entirely of cheese so no carbs!

@@Elode that cold plate looks yummy too. I kinda do the same thing just in portioned out containers. I have to or I won't stop at a slice of cheese or a 1/2 ounce of pork rinds...it's all weighed or portioned out.