Good Sunday Morning to you! This is the first menu plan of the New Year 2013! I took a break during the holidays to provide you recipes instead before Christmas and New Years, but honestly I didn't like not having a menu plan truth be told. I was always like, "What am I making today for dinner?" I 'd rather have a plan even if I can't stick with it some days.
If your new around here you will see I don't usually put a day of the week next to the meals, I can't be that rigid. I'd rather just know the ingredients I have ready to make these dishes whichever day I want to make it. If I need to change it around on a certain day I can easily switch. Works for me!
Many of you also said you'd love to know if and what I eat for breakfast and lunch since it may be different than the family. I can say that on the weekends the breakfasts are the same and dinners, but come Monday I buckle down and eat even leaner and lighter. So if my breakfasts are different I will share it in parenthesis. Honestly I try to make all my recipes healthy, lighter versions of what they love to eat so I CAN ENJOY what everyone is eating and not have to make separate meals.
For lunches for myself this week I am planning on making up Vegetable Quinoa Salad and Cilantro Chicken Salad. Even though I homeschool, my children have music classes on Tuesday and Friday we are involved in an all day co-op so these two meals are perfect to pack into a lunchbox. They provide a few servings so I should be all set for the week.
Here's a packed lunch box of my Chicken Salad Wrap Meal -To-Go:
This whole container for the entire meal is only 317 calories and 7 weight watchers points plus. Check out more of my Meal-To-Go lunch recipes! All under 500 calories with snacks!
Breakfast
- Crock Pot Overnight GF Baked French Toast (new recipe)
- cereal & fruit-2x (My breakfast: No Bake Overnight Mango Oats)
- hard boiled eggs, toast, turkey bacon
- Blueberry Pancakes-2x
Dinners
- Slow Cooker Four Bean Chili, salad
- Roast Chicken, roasted carrots & parsnips, broccoli
- Crock Pot Turkey & Rice Stew (new recipe)
- left overs
- Baked Stuffed Chicken & Spinach, oven fried zucchini, brown rice pasta
- Out to Eat for our 16th Anniversary (Kiddies with grandparents)
- Marinated London Broil, spiced cabbage & onions, raw cucumbers, sweet potato fries
Hope you all have a fabulous week ahead!
About Brenda
Brenda Bennett is a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, certified Sugar Detox Coach, certified Keto Coach and certified Life Coach. She has been Sugar Free & Refined carb free for 17 years and has written 2 cookbooks, Sugar-Free Mom, and Naturally Keto and her 3rd book The 30-Day Sugar Elimination Diet, is a four part program to help you detox from sugar, eliminate cravings, balance blood sugar and lose weight all while eating a delicious, nutrient dense whole foods. Meal plan offers two tracks to follow, low carb or keto. She is the founder of the Sugar Free Fresh Start course and Sugar Free Tribe weight loss membership. Learn more.
KAlex
Awesome post! I love new Eat-Clean recipes and your menu plan looks awesome. Thank you for sharing. I love how versatile this lifestyle is. I also go to ToscaReno.com and EatCleanDiet.com for clean eating inspiration! Enjoy xo
Brenda
I love those sites as well!
Christeen
Where do I find the recipe for the gluten free crock pot french toast?
Brenda
it's a new recipe I was making for my family which is to say I haven't yet posted it.
Kelly
Happy 16th Anniversary! We are celebrating our 16th this week too! 🙂 Thanks for the great recipes...cant wait to try them!
Brenda
Thanks so much!
Susan
Oh, the Vegetable Quinoa Salad sounds pretty good!I might just give it a shot. I've never tried quinoa, but I keep finding recipes that call for it. I bought a box a while ago, and I just stare at in the cabinet. Might force myself to try it 🙂
Brenda
If it's your first time with quinoa you will love this recipe!
ntransplant
FYI: The link for the Cilantro Chicken salad is incorrect. It goes to Chicken Salad Cucumbers.
Brenda
yes it's the same recipe so rather than put in into cucumber bites, its in a wrap.