Meal Prep : Snack Edition
So I tried something new this week; meal prepping snacks. Yep, that’s right, I didn’t meal prep whole meals, I meal prepped individual snack boxes. I used to be that person who would spend an entire Sunday afternoon grocery shopping and then meal prepping endless healthy meals that would take forever and also cost a ton of money. Not only did I absolutely dread meal prepping on a Sunday, but I would actually stress myself out if I didn’t know what I was eating for the week. Talk about counterintuitive! I will say that I have been able to refine this process a bit by really, really simplifying what I eat during the week. It has taken some time to adjust to working from home and understanding what I do and do not have time to make myself throughout the week. Basically, very simple meals are my jam. I usually try to eat a protein, fat and green at every meal. I don’t do a lot of complex recipes and generally, I eat about the same 5 meals on rotation. Now this can get kinda boring and also, still a bit time consuming. I had this idea to meal prep snacks because I’m really bad about remembering to eat if I’m stuck on zoom calls all day. Then 4 o’clock would roll around and I was just too tired to make the salad I bought ingredients for and end up driving to 7/11 for a Diet Coke and a bag of chips. Not only was I constricting key nutrients for my body, I also was messing up my blood sugar and going on a roller coaster of emotional highs and lows throughout the day.
Meal prepping my snack boxes was a real unlock for me. It was so easy, I was basically assembling all the ingredients, rather than making them. I also got to be a little creative and made each box different. This has been helpful as they are overall smaller portions and I find myself just grabbing one from the fridge multiple times a day in between zoom calls. It’s like a little gift I give my future, busy self. Below are the three snack variations I prepped, but I plan on getting more creative! Let me know in the comments below if you’d like to see more snack prep ideas.
Protein Box
2 hard boiled eggs
Cubed Cheese
Pretzels
Grapes
Mediterranean Box
Baby Carrots
Snap Peas
Turkey Slices (rolled)
Feta Cheese cubes
Olives
Tzatziki
Veggie Box
Baby Carrots
Snap Peas
Baby Bell Peppers (sliced)
Cucumbers (sliced)
Caramelized Onion Bitchin’ Sauce
