Meal Prep Monday!

Love me some good 'ol fashion meal preppin! I like to mix up what I prep each week, sometimes I prep the same things but this time I am cooking turkey meatballs, egg white muffins, and some mixed veggies. It was so incredibly easy and my lunches and snacks are done for the week! Here's how I did it......

My Menu plan:
Breakfast and or Snacks through the day: Egg white Muffins ( I usually eat 4 with breakfast and a piece of toast or small sweet potato)

Lunch: 4 - 5 Skinny Turkey Meatballs with sauteed veggie mix.

Dinner: I usually don't prep my dinners because this is the time of day when I usually can get some time in the kitchen. Also, I usually like Fish at night and I like it best cooked and eaten fresh.

First Things First:
I chop all of  my veggies and separate them into individual plastic containers. This week I decided on a good stir-fry mixture of carrots, zucchini, onions, and broccoli. I used frozen broccoli and steamed them first until slightly tender. Then I chopped it up into smaller pieces. For the other veggies, I used my handy dandy chopper (pictured below).  Into each container, there is about 1.5 cups of the veggie mixture. I chose not to pre-cook them this week because the onion and zucchini tend to get too soggy. When it comes time for lunch each day, I will just saute my veggies then for a couple of minutes with EVOO and chili pepper paste.

To eat with my veggies, I made some Skinny Turkey Meatballs....

Ingredients:  Only 35 cals each!! This recipe makes 27 meatballs

1 package of lean ground Turkey (97% 3%) (Costco has the best price for a 4 pack of ground Turkey)

1 small red onion chopped

1/2 - 1 cup chopped spinach

3 tbls Liquid Egg white

1 tsp Lawry's Salt

1- 2 pepper

optional: 1- 2 oz Feta

Directions:

Dump all ingredients into a bowl and mix thoroughly.  Here comes the messy part, using your hands (I use gloves because I hate raw ground meat) form small balls about 2 inches in diameter.
Bake in the oven at 375 on a greased cookie sheet until the meatballs turn golden brown on the sides and top (roughly 15 - 20 mins).

Next... My breakfast and snack goodies!

If you want to enjoy some of these bad boys, get yourself one of these small muffin baking sheets. It makes 24 egg white muffins. 

Ingredients:

about 1.5 carton of Liquid Egg White (purchased at Costco- I buy the organic ones in the red box)

Chopped Red Onion (about a tsp in each)

Chopped Spinach ( about a tsp in each)

Cholula hot sauce (2-3 drops in each)

Directions:

Preheat oven to 375.  Slightly grease each muffin tin with EVOO, I learned the hard way :(

Drop as much chopped onion and spinach as you want in each one along with a couple drops of Cholula to add some flavor. 

Then, pour the egg white into each muffin circle until it almost reaches the top, they fluff up a bit in the oven when baking (it usually about 3 tbls). 

Bake for about 12 minutes or until egg is fluffy white and sides look crisp!

This week's prep was pretty simple, I ran out of propane yesterday so I am saving the chicken grilling for tomorrow, because when I run out of my turkey meatballs, I know I will need some Chicken to add to my other meals.  Those Turkey meatballs not only are good to eat for lunch but I find them to be really good snacks during the day when I get hungry between meals and they are actually good cold too!

Also, because I crave a little sweetness now and then, I prepped my Amazeballs recipe too. Did you check that out yet??