Day 5: Food Prep

Happy Sunday!

Sundays in my household run pretty much the same every Sunday. This day can make or break my week because it sets up my entire week. We first start with going to Sunday school and church. After church it's food prepping time and clean house time. The kids will actually get upset with me if I ask them to clean house any other day. LOL! They say "Mom, it's not Sunday!" But my oldest probably has the best description on Sunday in the group. She loves to tell anyone who will listen that God rested on the 7th day but her mother can't! So to set up your week I highly recommend food prepping. This is the key to keep to a clean lifestyle.

Sunday Food Prep:

1. Pre-Cook meats for grab and go protein

• chicken
• beef (jerky)

I use the chicken for salads, pizza toppings, quesadillas, tacos all throughout the week.
Cook roasts in a Dutch oven or crock pot. Later in the week pull apart the roasts and use for tacos and quesadillas. Also cook up roasts in to beef jerky for snack time.

2. Prep Meats

• Pork Loin

Right now the price of a pork loin at Costco is probably the cheapest meat around per lb. I get the huge Costco loin and I don't cook it ahead due to it's low fat content but I do prep it to impart flavor and for one last step after work. With one Costco Pork Loin I can prep 4 meals for my family of 5. I usually keep 1-1.5-2 lb piece to cook slowly in the oven on a day I work from home. I usually cut 6 thick cut pork chops and lastly cut thin pork chops which I pound out. I will keep one set will nothing on them and prep one set of thin cut "battered" pork chops. By dipping them in seasoned almond flour. I keep half of the prepped pork loin in the fridge and the other half in the freezer. One loin lasts about two weeks worth of dinners.

3. Fruit Leather-Dried Fruits and Vegetables

• Fruit Leather (refer to Fruit Leather recipe)
• Dried Fruit or vegetable slices

Here a food dehydrator is so helpful. But you can slice your fruits and veggies in thin slices and place on low heat in your oven. Kale chips, sweet potato chips and zucchini chips are all ones I have done in the oven with just a touch of sea salt sprinkled on them.

I recommend doing all or some of these once a week and package up ready to go in Ziplock bags on Tupperware containers. I rotate recipes on Sundays. I do the big meat preps after our monthly grocery shopping and the rest of the month do veggies, fruit and baked healthy snack such as crackers, bagels and muffins.

Hope this helps you with organizing your week and helping you stay on task.