Bree's Meal Plan for the Week of February 26

I know it’s late, but here it is…my meal plan for this week!  I planned on posting last week, but life happened.  I had to deal with a sick kid, back pain, laundry, and most importantly I really just wasn’t ready to start eating healthy… but this week it’s on!!!    Bree's Meal Plan
	Breakfast	Lunch	Dinner	Snack
Sunday	Fried eggs, Tomatoes and Avocado	Nachos, (Quinoa & Corn tortilla) Cheese, and Turkey Chili	Turkey Chili  *Kids: Mac and Cheese with Roasted Veggies	Plantain chips, Lara bars, Fruit, Cut Veggies…
	Breakfast	Lunch	Dinner	Snack
Monday	Steal Cut Oatmeal with Dates and Almond milk	Turkey Chili	Nachos, (Quinoa & Corn tortilla ) Cheese, and Turkey Chili
	Breakfast	Lunch	Dinner	Snack
Tuesday	Steal Cut Oatmeal with Dates and Almond milk	Jerk Chicken, Brown Rice and Veggies	Jerk Chicken, Brown Rice and veggies
	Breakfast	Lunch	Dinner	Snack
Wednesday	Steal Cut Oatmeal with Dates and Almond milk	Jerk Chicken, Brown Rice and Veggies	Jerk Chicken, Brown Rice Plantains, avocado & veggies
	Breakfast	Lunch	Dinner	Snack
Thursday	Steal Cut Oatmeal with Dates and Almond milk	Tuna Salad	Jerk Chicken Salad
	Breakfast	Lunch	Dinner	Snack
Friday	Steal Cut Oatmeal with Dates and Almond milk	Black Beans and Rice with salad	Take out
	Breakfast	Lunch	Dinner	Snack
Saturday	Eggs, blackbeans,  tomatoes, & avocado	Tacos with Fajita Meat (Chicken and Beef)	Tacos with Fajita Meat (Chicken and Beef)

Food

One of the things I’ve been working on over the past few years is cooking, especially learning how to cook healthy meals for my family. I don’t love cooking. Sometimes, I actually hate it, but we have to EAT! Boy, do we have to eat. One day I thought about it… We have to eat every day, a minimum of 3 times a day, and there are 5 of us in my family. So, that means 15 meals A DAY! 15 meals a day that need to be made by me and I don’t like cooking! My husband helps sometimes, but work keeps him pretty busy.  

To further complicate things, as I get older, I’ve noticed that I just can’t eat everything the way I used to. I’m not going to talk to you about nutrition, because I’m not a nutritionist. I’m just going to share my experience. I’ve noticed that what I eat doesn’t just affect my weight, or energy levels. It also affects my mood. Mood is so important because it can affect my entire outlook on life.  

I’m a mom. Imagine facing a 2, 3, and 5-year-old while in a bad mood… It’s so hard and it’s not fair to them or me. If I have low energy and I’m in a bad mood, I’m not the only one suffering. My whole family suffers, all because of the foods I have eaten. The food culprits are processed foods, but most notably SUGAR and FLOUR.

So, over the next few weeks, months and years, I’m going to challenge myself to avoid these foods.  Lucky for me there are tons of resources to find recipes that avoid these foods. Yet, here is the real challenge for me and I’m sure for some of you… finding the time to buy groceries, plan meals and actually cook these meals!!!

Stay tuned for tips on how to make the most of your time in my next post. Just kidding… Stay tuned and or join (please comment and add your own tips) me as I continue to learn how to feed my family healthy, low cost,  low prep meals.