Healthy Eating Part Two

Funny that I would decide to write a post about healthy eating and planning because this week I didn't do my normal meal planning and have been on the struggle bus!! Told you if I don't plan everything out I'm SOL! Normally I spend Saturday/Sunday morning planning out my meals for the week and figuring out what I have and what I will need to get at the store. It is IMPOSSIBLE for me to go to the store and only buy what is on my list, so I really try to only go once a week. If I make impromptu trips for extra items, like today, I end up spending $40 when I only went for bananas and an onion... Epic fail! And the worst part is I didn't even get my dang bananas! The whole town seems to be sold out of bananas it's ridiculous. My original meal plan for the week looked something like this:

 

Monday-jalapeno stuffed chicken (one of my faves!)

 

Tuesday- spaghetti

 

Wednesday - crockpot pork chops

 

Thursday - Chicken and Rice (go to meal I could eat this every day)

 

Friday - Sunday Madre will be here to visit so it's all up for grabs :-)

 

Then reality happened when I was brushing my teeth Monday morning and I realized I hadn't cooked dinner Sunday night so I had no leftovers for lunch and I hadn't gotten anything ready for dinner last night so it went something like this instead

 

Monday Lunch - chicken fajitias that were decently healthy with a side of fruit and caramel popped rice cakes for an afternoon snack

 

Monday Dinner - garlic chicken frozen meal that was eh at best - I picked it because the label made it look like the healthiest, but when I was making it I realized that it broke it down to 4 portions where all the other competitors only broke theirs into 2. I managed to get 3 portions out of it so it was about 265 calories, but I'm sure it was full of all sorts of unhealthy additives.

 

Tuesday Lunch looked like this:

 

 

breakdown is a small orange, carrots/celery with ranch, salad with light olive garden dressing (that I didn't end up eating because I bought the wrong kind of lettuce and it was NASTY, and leftover chicken garlic stuff

 

And Tonight's dinner consisted of the last of the leftover garlic chicken and waaaaaaaaaayyy too many of these suckers!!

 

 

If you haven't tried pretzel crisps yet you definitely should! They have 4 other flavors, but this one is new and was one of my impulse buys at the grocery store and it is definitely a winner!!

 

I'm going to do (finally) do my meal prep for the rest of the week tonight. Last week I made a big fruit salad that I munched on all last week, so I am going to make another this week with cantaloupe, strawberries, and blackberries. For main courses I am going to do spaghetti with chicken sausage (first time trying it) and chicken tortilla soup in the crockpot for tomorrow because it's snowing AGAIN! It's freaking madness. Tomorrow I will post some of my most loved recipes! Hope you all are having better weather than me!