He and She Food Prep

Food Prep!  It's a popular subject!

We've received a lot of questions lately regarding food prep.  Since it is one of our frequently asked questions we wrote an eBook on the subject but wanted to give you some tips here too!

We normally do our food prep on Sundays so that we have all of our food prepared for the week ahead.  Food prep might seem like a daunting task at first because it does take some trial and error but it is a huge time saver during the week.  I've actually come to enjoy my food prep time in the kitchen and look forward to it!

The first step, of course, is to clean out your refrigerator and go grocery shopping!  Next, you will need to pick a few recipes that you want to make that your whole family (or just yourself) can enjoy.  This will take trial and error and could be difficult depending on if you have picky eaters or not.  We suggest browsing our recipe pages and choosing one crock pot recipe, one skillet recipe, and one baked chicken recipe.  Don't forget about your veggies and sides for the week.  Depending on your schedule, you might want to make breakfast, lunch, and dinner in advance or just breakfast and lunch if you will be home and can make dinner.  Try food prep for the month of January and you will find you have time in the evenings to fit in a workout or spend more time with your family.

Below are links to the recipes in the picture:

Salsa Chicken

Monster Meatloaf

Sweet Potato Cubes

Homemade Protein Bars

Honey Chipotle Ground Chicken

Weekly Food Prep

UPDATE: Due to popular demand, we now have a Food Prep eBook available!

A lot of you have asked questions about clean food prep.  It is exactly what it sounds like...you prep all of your food for the week at one time.  It may seem overwhelming but it is so worth it (trust me!).  It will take a few hours out of your day, but you will not have to worry about any of your meals for the rest of the week (this is the best way to stay on track).  Most families could probably get away with one food prep per week, but we do two per week (one on Sunday & a smaller one on Wednesday/Thursday) because both of us eat clean & both of us eat a lot of food (especially Scott)!

Most of you are probably like us...You work full time & you are exhausted when you get home from work.  If this describes you then the clean eating lifestyle is what you need! Both Scott & I work full time.  We also spend a lot of time in the gym & on this blog. This leaves very little time each day to cook dinner (unless we want to eat dinner at nine each night!).  This means that prepping our food in advance is imperative for us to stay on track.  When you have your food prepared in advance you have no excuse or reason to drive-thru somewhere or grab that donut at work.  Even if your food prep day isn't Sunday, set aside one day per week that is convenient for you to prep your food.  In my opinion, this is the MOST IMPORTANT step in eating clean.

All you have to do is pick a breakfast recipe, lunch recipe & dinner recipe that you like & batch cook them all at one time!

Below are a few examples of our food prep.  Hopefully this will give you some ideas!

Salsa Chicken

Apple-Cinnamon Steel Cut Oats

Boiled Eggs

Turkey Meatloaf Muffins

Brown Rice

Tilapia

Monster Meatloaf

Veggies

Turkey Meatloaf Muffins 

Egg Scrambler Muffins

Veggies

Grilled Chicken

Quinoa

Do you have a friend interested in the clean eating lifestyle?  Get together & prep your food! It makes it more fun!  The picture above is of me & my friend, Anna, after killing a Sunday food prep!  :-)

I hope this helps!

Here is another post about our Sunday Food Prep.

* Be sure to check out our Getting Started and Food Prep eBooks here.

- Whitney

He and She Prep: Sunday Cooking!

After a long day of cooking (and cleaning) yesterday our food has been prepped for the week!  We made salsa chicken, Jamie Eason's Monster Meatloaf, Jamie Eason's Protein Bars, black beans, brown rice, quinoa, steel cut oats, boiled eggs & cut up all of our veggies for the week!  We may have to boil some more eggs & make more brown rice & black beans towards the middle of the week but other than that we are ready to tackle the work week!  Check out our food below...it takes up our entire kitchen table!  Interested in what we eat?  Read about our daily food here.

How do you prepare for the week ahead?

Here is another example of our food prep.

* Be sure to check out our Getting Started and Food Prep eBooks here.

- Whitney