Meal Planning

In order to reach our goals, we MUST carve some time out of our weekend to meal plan.  Trust me, I've been doing this for the past 5 years and it has made a WORLD of difference.  Pick a 2 hour window on Saturday or Sunday and plan out what you are going to eat for the week.  If you are okay with leftovers, make a few meals on the weekend and eat them as leftovers during the week.  If you like fresh meals, then plan to purchase those items to make each night or throw in the crockpot.  

If you are new to meal planning, don't be hard on yourself.  This is definitely something that will take time to learn and implement.  The good news is that there isn't a one way to do this.  Every person has a different style and you can make it work however is best for you.

To get you started, I've included in this post a monthly calendar and a weekly calendar.  I fill this out each week and then choose to have my groceries picked up Friday night (I preorder through Walmart grocery) so I'm ready to prep them for the upcoming week.  

Healthy Steak Stir Fry

This 21 day fix recipe has steak strips, broccoli, red pepper, red onions all tossed together stir fry style and served over ancient grain noodles.  It's a fast and easy recipe that's good for you.  

Ingredients

1/2 box Catelli Healthy Harvest Ancient Grains Spaghetti

1 lb. steak strips

2 strips bacon cubed

2 tbsp. olive oil

1 red onion diced

3 c. broccoli cut into small florets

1 red bell pepper sliced

2 tsp. sesame seeds

For the sauce

1/4 c. liquid aminos soy sauce or coconut aminos is fine

1 tbsp. toasted sesame oil

1 tsp. ground ginger

2 tbsp. coconut vinegar

In a hot pan over medium-high heat add the steak strips and cut up bacon.  Cook until no longer pink, drain and set aside. 

While the meat is cooking, put all the sauce ingredients in a small bowl and stir, set aside.

Prepare pasta according to the directions on the box.

While the pasta is cooking add the broccoli, onion and bell pepper.  Cook until the onion is translucent.

Add the meat back in and pour the sauce over the meat and vegetables.  Sprinkle with sesame seeds.

Serve over Catelli Healthy Harvest Ancient Grain Spaghetti.

Nutrition

Serving: 1 g

Calories: 599kcal

Carbs: 52 g

Protein: 36 g

Fat: 27 g

Sat. Fat: 9 g

Cholesterol: 76 mg

Sodium: 1106 mg

Potassium: 769 mg

Fiber: 4 g

Sugar: 5 g

Apple Cinnamon Yogurt Bowl

3/4 c. plain greek yogurt
1 granny smith apple
1 tbsp. chia seeds
1/4 tsp. cinnamon
2 tbsp. chopped walnuts
1 tsp. honey

Put yogurt to bowl and then add the rest of the items to bowl.  For a special treat, heat up the apples with cinnamon in the microwave before adding to the yogurt and it will taste like apple pie and ice cream.  

Frozen Yogurt Covered Blueberries

6 oz. Blueberries
6 oz. Nonfat Greek Plain Yogurt

Dip the blueberries in yogurt and then place on a baking sheet.  Stick in the freezer for 1 hour.  Then remove from freezer and place in a zip lock bag and store in freezer. 

Perfect healthy snack!  If you don't like blueberries, you can cut up strawberries as an alternative fruit.

1 Red, 1 Purple

Home Baked Tortilla Chips

(12) 6-inch Corn Tortillas
1 tbsp. vegetable oil
Fine salt

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.  Brush both sides of tortilla with oil.  Stack the tortillas and cut the pile into sixths to make chips.  Spread the chips out into a single layer on two large baking sheets and season with salt.  Bake until golden brown and crisp, rotating the baking sheets once, about 12-15 minutes.  Serve.

12 chips = 2 tortillas - 1 Yellow, 1 tsp.

Calabrese Salad

Creamy Tomato Basil Soup

Baked Omlet

Looking for a quick easy breakfast meal?  Try this one out.

Ingredients
8 eggs
1 c. milk
1/2 tsp. seasoning salt
3 oz. cooked ham, diced
1/2 c. shredded cheddar cheese
1/2 c. shredded mozzarella cheese
1 tbsp. minced onion

Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Grease 8 x 8 dish.

Bake uncovered for 40-45 minutes.

Welcome to Faith and Fitness Blog!

Sometimes when you are trying to reach goals and eat healthy, it can be very over whelming.  In past private challenge groups we have shared recipes in the group, but even that is hard to go back and find them when we need something and feel like we are desperate to make some thing quick and healthy.  

I love blogging daily/monthly a way of scrap booking my kids' lives as they grow and thought having a separate blog that could be used for healthy living and fitness would be very handy.  I've decided to create this blog as a way to keep recipes easily accessible for everyone.  

I hope you enjoy and find it helpful, too.  I'm always grabbing for my phone when meal planning and love that the recipes are electronic so that I have them anywhere.  I will have the recipes cataloged on the left side of the blog so you can search via Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner ideas.  

Hopefully you can appreciate this, too!