Sunday Meal Prep

I know I’m going to have a more productive week if I do two things on Sunday:

1. Pack my fitness bag for my looooong Monday and Tuesday classes and training
2. Plan my breakfast and lunch meals for the week

Let’s talk about #2.

With my schedule as NUTS as it is (especially for the month of March with 2-3 late nights of working/teaching during the week), I desperately need to sit down on Sundays and work out my eating plan. Food is essential in general, but especially when you teach 10-11 fitness classes a week (<– hangry instructor alert).

I’m fortunate to have a husband who LOVES to cook and always makes dinner for us. Most of our dinners even allow extra for leftovers — for future dinners or lunches.

But for the other meals? Enter MEAL PREP MODE:

We do our big weekly grocery shopping trip on Saturday nights (lately it’s been a grocery-shop-plus-let’s-see-a-movie kinda date), so we always plan our meals on Saturday.

On Sunday, we’ve gotten into the pattern of prepping breakfast and lunch, too.

I love these protein boxes, an idea I got from WaWa (hail to the WaWa!). I mix it up, but the boxes generally include cheese, lots of fruit, and something that combines protein and carbs. Last week, I made a batch of banana protein bread in muffin form, and this week I made energy balls.

We both love smoothies, so I plan to make those 2-3 times a week, plus I’ll make bags of cut veggies (carrots and celery this week), which are easy to grab and go.

For fun, I also made some peanut butter-filled dates this week, too. I LOVE snacking on dates in between teaching classes.

I find that when I plan my meals for the week, it’s one less thing to worry about, which gives me time to be productive elsewhere. This is the same reason I plan my outfits in advance–I even hang the next day’s clothes on a hook next to my closet–so I don’t have to think about it, I just get dressed.

Do you meal prep? How about outfit prep? Think you might start?!