May 28, 2017 -This Week's Meal Prep Session!


After a two-week hiatus, it's back to meal prepping. I had to dig into my freezer and use up some of my reserves due to not meal prepping. Although Monday is Memorial Day here and, therefore a holiday, I'm still meal prepping on Sunday. It's been raining all week and weekend and I haven't had much time to work on my garden. Tomorrow's forecast calls for a nice day so I wanted to take advantage of it. I love love love my summer garden! So far we have been able to pick about half a pound of strawberries per day for the past week. My lettuces, which came back from last year on their own, are growing well and we can start to eat some of them. A lot of my summer prepping will be dependent on what I can pick from the garden. This also encourages the kids to eat fruits and veggies since they see where their food is coming from and they can help me tend to them and pick them. 



This week's meal prep took less than two hours (if you don't count the slow cooked Maple Pulled Pork). It included Garlic Teriyaki Chicken Thighs made with home made teriyaki sauce. Next I made a Sausage, Pepper And Rice Skillet dish. It was very simple and made enough for two meals, one of which we had for dinner tonight. The recipe calls for some kielbasa and I like to substitute it with turkey kielbasa. It tastes the same as regular kielbasa but has less fat. Finally I made some Turkey Meat Balls. The turkey meat balls call for zoodles, or zucchini noodles, but I'll be using actual pasta with them. 

For the slow cooker maple pulled pork I got some bagged Asian slaw salad. I'm thinking we can eat them in some flour tortillas along with the slaw or use some fresh lettuce leaves instead, from the garden of course!

The only thing that didn't get done was the grilled chicken for lunch and that's only because I ran out of propane! We'll get some tomorrow when we go to Home Depot to get some supplies to build a new fence for the garden. Grilled chicken and steam veggies are my go-to's for lunch for my husband and I. 

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I also always bake a bread and it is a delicious Ezekiel bread. The machine bread recipe can be found here









As always I encourage your comments and look forward to hearing from you!

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