Meal Plans

You’ve probably heard that grocery shopping on an empty stomach is a bad idea. I think meal planning when your hungry is an equally bad idea. In fact, I’m officially adding “eat a snack” to my meal planning tips. Your weekly meal plan will turn out healthier if you aren’t thinking of pizza while you plan it.

Mmmmm, pizza sounds good! See, it’s a problem anyone can fall into. Fortunately, it is still too hot for pizza so that won’t make it into my meal plan but Pizza Pasta will. Sometimes people will ask me why I’ll eat soup or chili in the summer; since it’s so hot here in Arizona we keep our air conditioner really cold so soup is actually enjoyable. On the other hand, turning on the oven will heat up the house so I usually only do that in the mornings or for company.

Just thinking about turning on the oven made me think of cookies. Thankfully, I have a no-bake alternative for those too.

See, I have a problem. That just goes to show how much I need a meal plan to keep me focused. I’m also thinking about trying Veestro to have “just in case” I need a quick and easy meal. If you have experience with them let me know!

We’ve had family in town two of the last three weeks so and haven’t been eating the healthiest meals. This week we are ready to get back on plan. This meal plan will focus on dinners because we’ve been living on the Bob’s Red Mill Oatmeal Cups for easy breakfasts.

Weekly Meal Plan

If you are stuck and can’t figure out what to have for dinner, this plant-based meal plan should give you some ideas!

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My kids don’t know it yet but we have company coming this week. Our Meal Plan will be a little loosey-goosey since I don’t know what all we will have planned. The kids are in school and we are working so most of our “together” time will be in the evenings.

If you are new here, you came at a great time!

I tend to jump into back to school mode early for two reasons; first, I’m a planner and second, my kids have already started school. Over the next month (or two) you can expect to see lunch box ideas, easy breakfast ideas, busy morning productivity hacks, recipes and more! Back to school season is kind of like my Christmas. I love Christmas but I get way more into the back to school planning compared to Christmas planning.

This week we don’t have a lot planned. With family visiting I want to keep my options open. I have a few things in mind but I don’t want to spend a lot of time cooking.

Weekly Meal Plan

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I’ve had meal planning on my mind all weekend! I was honored to teach a meal planning class to the Plant Pure Nation Pod in St. Louis via Skype. We had a great class and I gave a lot of plant-based meal plan examples.

If you haven’t watched Plant Pure Nation yet make plans to do it. It’s available streaming on Netflix.

I used to teach a lot of meal planning, cooking, and plant-based classes in my home. I stopped when I went back to work full time almost two years ago. I hadn’t realized how much I missed teaching.

I get a little bit of that feeling from the Plant-Based Basics eCourse. I may have to work more live training sessions into that course.

I was so busy with work, the class and a new project I didn’t get my meal plan created until late.

Weekly Meal Plan

The Meal Plans I provide on Monday usually have a bit more variety than I eat during the week. I put it out there to help you get ideas but we don’t actually cook this many meals every week. I will double recipes and eat twice. I can attest that all of these lunches and dinners, except maybe the portobello’s are great reheated. [Read more…] about July 18, 2016 Meal Plan