Free Inquiry Post 4 – Meal Prep #4
Hello everyone! This week I was a little bit lazy with dinner prep and did not do anything specific for the week but I did prep a good lunch, breakfast, and snack! First to start off with the lunch, I made a chili roasted sweet potato and quinoa bowl. Technically I think it is meant to be a quinoa salad style bowl, but I don’t like cold food so I adjusted it slightly and will be warming it up everyday for lunch! I didn’t feel like cooking meat this week so instead I made a lunch with just chickpeas and black beans. It was super fast and easy, even with the components that I added. I linked the main recipe that I used above but I also added chickpeas and corn, oven roasted carrots, and I adjusted the sauce recipe slightly. I simply sauteed the corn, black beans, and chickpeas in a sauce pan with some olive oil and seasonings. For the sauce, I added some plain Greek yogurt and olive oil to make it a bit creamier and silkier and it worked perfectly. Each component was very simple and because I only had to chop up the carrots and the sweet potatoes, there was barely any prep to do. For the flavor, I would give this bowl an 8/10 and for the timing, I would give it a 9/10 because it took less than 1 hour for all of the prep, cooking, and cleaning. I would highly recommend this meal for someone that just wants to do a lazy meal prep and also needs an easy vegetarian dish.
The next item I made were some healthy blueberry muffins that I am eating for breakfast this week. These muffins turned out very well and took only 10 minutes to put together. I made it in one bowl (even though technically you are supposed to combine wet and dry ingredients separately but I was too lazy) and it made 12 muffins. I would give these a 9/10 for taste and a 10/10 for time efficiency and clean up! It was actually a recipe I found on tik tok so I do not have a link to it but I will list all of the ingredients below:
- 1 cup of oat flour
- 1/3 cup wheat bran
- 1/3 cup vanilla whey protein powder
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1 egg
- 3/4 cup Greek yogurt
- 2 tbsp honey
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 3/4 frozen blueberries
- The oven was preheated to 350 degree Fahrenheit and they baked for about 25 minutes.
The last thing I made for this week is a snack I can bring to school with my lunch! I looked up a recipe for some peanut butter energy bites that I had never tried before. Once again, this was an extremely easy recipe that took barely any time at all. You just throw everything in a food processor and blend until it forms a dough like consistency. These have a ton of fiber and a good amount of protein for such a small snack. They turned out so well for something I was trying for the first time. I would definitely make these again, they are a 9/10 for taste and a 10/10 for efficiency. Overall, it was a pretty lazy meal prep week because I have been busy but I still think I did pretty good! The timing was the best part of the meal prep this week because I was very glad it was all done so fast!
