Meal prep

Who doesn't like a good meal prep? [first I should say we are NOT talking about your boring chicken breast and/or tilapia and broccoli] I'm not going to sit here and tell you that you can't succeed without food prep or any of that bull (although it does make things easier), but I would be fairly surprised if you told me you just didn't like having your food prepared in the morning so you don't have to deal with it. So you can get an extra 20 min of sleep. Stay at the gym for another 20 min. Have more time to do your make up. Read the news. Catch up on your favorite blog. Whatever.

I know I much prefer the extra time. But let's be real here, I don't do it 100% every week. Sometimes I do the bare minimum and sometimes I go the whole 9 yards. It just depends how lazy I am feeling on Sunday. This Sunday I went all the way. The whole 9. For me this means preparing and putting together my lunches, snacks, and organizing them nicely in my fridge.

First thing is finding something yummy that you don't mind having all week. This week I chose to make zoodles with this yummy avocado "sauce" I made recently, topped off with chicken thigh. 

To start off I grilled my chicken while making my dinner: 

While that was grilling I got going on my zoodles. (I use a vegetti to make mine, $13 on amazon). I added some cherry tomatoes on top and then once the chicken was done I added that on top too: 

And that was that for my lunch prep. Each morning I'll make the sauce fresh so that the avocado doesn't start browning, but this only takes a few minutes. 

I also prep my morning/afternoon snack (depends on if it's a gym day!) so I don't have to worry about it. This is usually some sort of a sweet potato egg bake. This week I made a curried bacon egg bake:

I cut that baby up, added to little baggies, put some carrots in a bag, then put it all in the fridge. Like so: 

 I even put my apples and avocado on the same shelf so that everything is just there when I need it.

And here's a final pic of my lunch after the avocado sauce : 

So that's it. You can make it as easy or as complicated as you want. And remember it doesn't HAVE to be boring!