hey guys happy sunday welcome to my kitchen today we are going to be talking about meal planning what we've got going on in the kitchen this week and what we're having for dinner this week so for those of you happy on live thank you so much and for those of you catching the replay thank you as well I love my replay viewers and I appreciate all of the comments and likes and love and shares that you guys give my stuff so keep it up alright so I was telling you guys that tonight's dinner is literally like a five dollar meal um so I'm going to share that first then I'm going to show you how we meal plan and we'll just keep it short and simple so tonight we are going to do some packets on the grill that have chicken asparagus onion and mushrooms and I made a marinade for the packets and i'm going to show you what we put in to that is kind of like an 18 inspired thing and this is all paleo low carb so what your fridge is so organized no my fridge is a hot mess like most of my life so but it would be nice if my fridge was super organized so to show you guys what I put in the marinade so and just so you know I don't know if any of you have heard this before but cooks measure chefs do not I consider myself a chef because I don't measure things I kind of eyeball things and go from there and ninety-nine percent of the time they turn out well so let me move this camera just a smidge okay so this was an asian-inspired thing so in a little Bowl I combined some extra virgin olive oil garlic powder crushed red pepper ginger you can't have something that's Asian without some ginger in there onion powder you got the traditional salt and pepper we always use the pink Himalayan sea salt sesame seeds and then the magic ingredient our coconut aminos so these you can find at your local health food store or in my amazon store i'll have to share the link with you guys for this so since we stick primarily to paleo ninety percent of the time we avoid soy so to alleviate or get out of all the soy stuff coconut aminos have the same flavor just no soy so look for this it also has sixty-five percent less sodium than soy sauce so it's a really good option for those of you aiming to keep your sodium low so mixed all that in a bowl chopped up my chicken and the cool thing was when I went to the grocery store today there was a package are ready together that had the onions mushrooms and asparagus cut up and it was on manager special for a dollar ninety-nine I could not buy an onion mushrooms and asparagus for a dollar ninety-nine so it was a total win I had two chicken breasts so this is an under five dollar meal really i just put five dollars on the title so let me show you what those look like alright guys hang on hang on hang on there we go so all in the packet there i'm going to fold it all up and throw it on the grill I don't know how long I'm gonna have it on the grill we'll see what it looks like in 20 ish minutes I may kill the vegetables tune in later to find out what happens so that's what our dinner is gonna be tonight but I want to talk to you guys about meal planning and meal prepping because if you are not planning your meals but you have a health goal you are essentially planning to fail you can't say that you want to work on your health and have no idea what you are going to be consuming that week so to make it really simple on us what we do is our breakfasts are normally same thing might be a slight variation like we might use Applegate sausage instead of bacon but our breakfast stay primarily the same thing just to make it easy on everybody lunches for my husband it's usually leftovers from whatever i made for dinner for me i really like to use my protein shake then because i usually work out in the morning so my protein shake is usually my lunch i do beef it up it's not just like protein and water I put a lot of stuff in their veggies all kinds of things i'll show you guys my preferred protein powder at the moment ok i wasn't planning to do this so this is last minute so this is physique this is a whey protein if you are paleo primal and we have already established that you tolerate dairy well which i do suggest to all of my clients we need to remove it first then we can try to add it back in if you do well adding small amounts back in this is a brand that i highly recommend this is what i've been using and it does not have any crazy ingredients coloring artificial dyes flavors sweetened with stevia if you want more information on this let me know because this is what i am recommending to my clients down i'll be happy to hook you up with that and i also like to add in some great lakes gelatin it's a collagen gelatin so it mixes into cold stuff very well and this is great for your joints hair nails all that kind of stuff but it also is really good to help with gut health so it's a good source of protein and put them together we've got extra protein going on and those of you that have been watching my facebook you know that during this pregnancy having craving protein so hello protein so really then it comes down to dinner meals what are we going to do for dinners typically i pick five things four or five things to make for dinners throughout the week we know one night we'll have leftovers we know one night we'll probably go out and that's just how it is and when i say going out i usually mean like chipotle like seriously we're creatures of habit so what I want you guys to do in your meal plan is go through your pantry and see what you have before you just willy-nilly run to the grocery store and buy a bunch of crap you don't need so meal plan around what you already have in your pantry and your freezer in your fridge get on and check your local store that you shop at check their digital coupons load those to your store stores loyalty card that's a great way to save money I got a lot of stuff for free and discounted today also if your store has a loyalty program a lot of them will mail you coupons and I do get coupons for organic meat and produce so just putting it out there there is a cost effective way to live this lifestyle Jennifer asks did you find the gelatin nearby online Jennifer it is in my amazon store I'm going to post the link underneath this video when I'm finished because a lot of people ask me about the collagen so i will share that okay lee s for the baby bump that won't be this video but stay tuned so i'm going to show or tell you guys what we're having this week and i'll show you kind of what i do do do do okay you guys see those yellow post-its are those green post-its I don't know what color do you want to call them so we have our magnets for each day of the week and then I write down what we're having that way my husband doesn't ask me like 50 million times what's for dinner it's right there so I'm going to tell you guys what we are having this week so those of you that are tired of being asked about what's for dinner do something simple like that it'll save you so much time so monday night we are going to do turkey taco salads tuesday night we are doing meatloaf and a garlic green bean it's going to be a paleo meatloaf no I don't have a recipe I kind of just throw things together when it comes to meat loaf and the garlic green beans I've got fresh green beans i will cook them on the stove top with some garlic and olive oil salt and pepper really simple guys like it doesn't have to be rocket science to eat this way we're going to do what I call my bomb porkchops bomb stands for bacon onion and mushroom because hello I'm Dorothy everything has to have some bacon in it that's just how life is so I will saute up the bacon onion and mushroom together I will pan sear the pork chops I will see using them however want to season them all the stuff will be served on top of each other and the side dish for that night will be cauliflower rice so that's a good substitute if you are getting off the grains you're getting off the rice cauliflower rice is amazing you can race it yourself in a food processor or you can go I get mine at Trader Joe's and I will stock up put them in my freezer so that I have them Heather asks what kind of bacon do you eat i will show you guys and just so you know how serious we are about our bacon this is how serious we are about our bacon in this house like gold this is one of the brands that we use its hormel natural tour choice uncured no preservative preservatives and no nitrates so this is one brand that we used it was on sale at our store if we bought five we got them for 399 each they're usually 599 each so when that happens we buy a lot of bacon the other brand that we really like is oscar meyer they have a nitrate free uncured one as well and even some of the grocery stores now have their own brand that are uncured and nitrate free so we are serious about our bacon in this house Lee it is by formal formal natural choice alright everybody got that okay glad I could help with the bacon problem okay so like I said we're going to do pork chops and cauliflower rice on Wednesday night Thursday night is always a light night for us we usually have stuff going on with church and so we are just doing a simple salad with tuna on it nothing fancy but it's still low carb high protein and then we will have leftovers and then Saturday night I typically go to church that will be my chipotle night so that gets us through the whole week like I said Tim you'll take leftovers and you know I told you what I do for lunch so anyway if you guys have any more questions about meal planning grocery shopping how I eat what I eat why I eat if you are interested in the protein that I use like i said i'm very picky about what I put in my body I research the crap out of everything that I put in my body and so I do look for things that are gluten-free non-gmo sweetened with stevia not full of artificial colors and dies and flavors and all that stuff so if you're looking for a natural route I will give you my suggestions and i will leave the amazon link so you guys can take a pop into my amazon store and support me you support me in my amazon store if you have loved my content in my videos go ahead and use that to get some of these goodies through amazon so i will be back tomorrow stay tuned for what the topic will be i'll be back every day actually so until then you guys have a great rest of your sunday and i will talk to you next time bye guys .
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January 08, 2021
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