Meal Planning 1

At my work there are a lot of young male engineers who's diet mainly consists of whatever can be removed from the freezer and cooked in a toaster oven or microwave. Heck, in university a healthy meal for me was sitting down to some tostitos, salsa and sour cream (veggies, protein and starch!)!! But after school I started learning how to cook. Initially I dabbled with bottles of butter chicken sauce and just added chicken and veggies and rice but progressively I tried new recipes.

One day a colleague and I were talking and he said he'd love it if someone sat down and told him what to cook every night and what to buy at the grocery store. This got me to thinking about my own erratic meal planning whatever I was doing. So I started making meal plans for my week to guarantee healthy eating and push some prep to the weekend when I had more time. I did this for about a month when the same colleague told me he was still eating at McDonald's. He's pretty fit, he does cross fit thrice per week but wasn't getting all that much fitter! As well, we all know you can't outrun your fork.

I started to electronify my meal plans and put them on google docs so he could use the same meal plans I did and hopefully stop eating at McDonalds *puke*. Not that I'm full on against McDs, they have great coffee and it's hard to make an egg mcmuffin all that bad for you. But not every meal of every day....

So here are the five meals and below that is your materials required, or what some might call a grocery list:

Monday: Salmon & Asparagus foil wrap BBQ/Oven

Tuesday: Cauliflower sauce & brown rice pasta

Wednesday: Meatloaf

Thursday: Paleo Spaghetti, can replace tomato sauce w/ pesto when on sale

Friday: Slow cooker roast beef (I'll post the recipe for this shortly)

Groceries

Monday:

Salmon

Dijon

Honey

Horseradish

Asparagus

Olive Oil

Tuesday:

Cauliflower

Brown Rice Pasta

Garlic Cloves

Vegetable Broth

Butter

Milk

Wednesday:

Ground Beef

Potato

Carrot

Cheese

Ketchup

Egg

Spices

Thursday:

Spaghetti Squash

Salt & Pepper

Olive Oil

Spaghetti Sauce or Pesto

Ground Beef

Vegetables for sauce like mushrooms, bell peppers, onions

Friday:

Roasting Beef

Potato

Veggies

Beef Broth

Cornstarch

Garlic Cloves

Salt & Pepper

Ice Cream (kidding.)