This Week's Meal Plan (Feb 17th-23rd)

I strongly feel that in order to be successful, at anything, you need to have a plan. You need to have direction. You can't just wing things and expect success to just happen. This totally applies to weight loss, which is why I feel that meal planning is incredibly important. 

This is my meal plan for the week. Having three kids and homeschooling means that I need to have stuff planned out otherwise it is eat eat graze graze eat eat all. day. long. When the kids know (and I know) when and what we are having next it cuts back on the asking for snacks and the mindless wandering into the kitchen. 

I also always know what I need to pull out to defrost. I also know exactly what to buy at grocery shopping time which saves time AND money, something that we mums seem to always have too little of. 

Keep in mind this is how I choose to eat. I am big on balance and protein. I limit my processed carbs, and I cook pretty much 99% from scratch. I figured I would share my meal plan in case someone would like to try. I didn't put portion sizes as those differ for everyone, mostly be wise and listen to your body for signals that you are full. 

If you have any question or need help please let me know. In the coming weeks I plan to continue sharing my meal plans if there is a good response. I'm also going to figure out a better way to put them up as a picture. 

I'm looking forward to all these meals coming up, lots of rockin' eats coming our family's way! 

Healthy Eating Essentials

When trying to lose weight you have to be sure that you are buying the RIGHT foods. And NO that does NOT mean 100 calorie packs, diet pop, 0 fat yogurt, and cartons of egg whites. 

You need to load your grocery cart with a rainbow of fresh produce, choose quality protein, whole eggs and full fat dairy. You need to choose WHOLE FOODS in their NATURAL FORMS.

If you are struggling trying to figure out just what you should be buying please check out this list I have of what my regular essentials are for eating healthy. When you buy the right foods it makes it easy to stay on track with your eating because the fake foods and snack foods just aren't there to tempt and taunt you.

This is pretty much my basic list. Depending on what is on sale and my meal plan I may swap things in or out. In the summer we have more berries. But in general all these things can make a very wide variety of meals to keep everyone happy and healthy.

Weekly
-greens mix or spinach
-broccoli
-carrots
-avocado
-sweet potato
-turnip
-butternut squash
-red and green peppers
-garlic
-onion
-mushrooms
-green onion
-green apples
-pineapple
-bananas
-lemons
-frozen fruit (for smoothies)

-passata (strained tomatoes)
-happy planet juice (best juice ever!)
-mineral water (I like to mix it with the juice for a treat and to help in juice moderation)

-eggs
-Balkan or Greek yogurt (plain)
-3% milk
-cream
-coconut milk
-almond milk (regular and chocolate)

-ground pork
-chicken legs
-chicken breast
-pork chops or pork loin
-bacon
-lean ground beef
-bison sausages

-sprouted grain bread (silver hills bakery)
-square organic wraps
-flat buns

Monthly
-honey
-coconut oil
-olive oil
-maple syrup
-coconut sugar
-oats
-alternative flours (arrowroot, almond, coconut)
-bag of rice (basmati)
-frozen peas
-frozen corn
-dates
-shredded coconut
-raisins
-nuts


What you will rarely see in my grocery cart are processed foods. I rarely purchase packaged soups, boxed and frozen foods. If it is a convenience food it is usually laden with preservatives, additives, and a whole bunch of other things that just aren't good for you.

Of course there are a few things that I do buy that aren't 100% clean and don't 100% fall into the whole and unprocessed guidelines but 80% of the time what I eat is whole and pure. Get into the kitchen and get making your food from scratch. I can't stress enough the importance of that.

Hope you can use a bit of this list to get on your way to eating healthier, losing weight, living better and Rocking Your Life :)