Many of you have asked for my specific plans, recipes, spreadsheet, etc. I am SO excited to pass this info along to others! Please note: I am not a professional! I realize that there are a lot of imperfections and inconsistencies on the spreadsheet (and yes, as a type A, OCD person this drives me NUTS) but at 9 months pregnant AND hanging out with my almost-2-year-old (what!?) I simply do not have 17 hours to spend perfecting the way I want this to look, so it looks a little janky. Sorry friends ;).
Hopefully, you can use this more as a guideline rather than an exact plan and alter it to fit your own needs/likes/desires! Feel free to comment with any questions.
Meal Prep Spreadsheet
If you are looking for recipes for the dishes I prepared all in one place here is a link to a Pinterest board where most of the recipes I used are located!! Meal Prep Recipe Pinterest Board (I apologize for some missing images on my own recipe pins!)
This past week, I also prepared a bunch of breakfast items as well!
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| Breakfast sandwiches! Egg, ham and cheese. |
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| Wrapped up and ready to go! |
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| Chai muffins - YUM! |
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| French toast sticks. |
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| Coconut banana bread. |
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| This was probably my favorite of all - lemon raspberry muffins. They are SO good!! |
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| Chocolate banana oatmeal bread (I may or may not have also added chocolate chips to the batter...) |
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| A few items in this picture not mentioned above...middle rack is regular banana bread and orange chocolate chip muffins; right rack is oatmeal cups! |
The sandwiches and chai muffins I did one day, french toast sticks another and the 6 remaining items were all done another day (probably took me about 5ish hours??) To be honest, it was REALLY easy doing all of the baking at one time. I just had a bowl for dry ingredients that I reused (without washing) for each recipe, a measuring cup for breaking eggs in (and measuring oil). I really didn't have to break to do a bunch of dishes between each recipe or anything, it really was a matter of waiting for whatever was in the oven to finish! I would definitely recommend doing as many of the baked things at one time as you can. Luckily, I was able to do most of this while Heidi was at MDO, however I do owe her a playground day for being so patient with me while I spend so much time in the kitchen (she may or may not have watched her favorite,"Elf", about 25 times in the last 3 weeks....oops!)
To freeze, I quartered the breads (so we could change it up more frequently - instead of eating banana bread for 6 days straight!) wrapped them in plastic wrap and then wrapped them in foil and labeled them. For the muffins, I just dumped those guys into a ziploc bag.
Thanks for hanging in there with me! I hope you find this useful and it helps you prepare some tasty somewhat-healthy meals for the future!
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