What’s a typical weekly meal prep for you?

My go to is sirloin and zucchini. And spinach. Some potatoes. I keep eggs at work for breakfast, I have a small hot plate there. And pears. And almonds for snack. Ill change it up to chicken thighs with onion and peppers sometimes.

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know I should probably use chicken breasts, but I just don't like them as much as thighs, especially on the BGE.

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Boneless thighs are GOAT. I’ll very rarely mess with the breasts anymore. Albertsons has great sales usually less than $2/lb, I’ll grab 20# at a time.

Those sound really good. I always say I’m going to add in more variety but I end up rushed and just throw meat on the traeger and cook some rice. I have at least 50 high protein recipes bookmarked that I’ll get to eventually.

Bowls are probably the easiest go to for me…. I just switch out the protein (steak, chicken, ground beef, ground turkey, even a filet of salmon), some sort of veggie (roasted broccoli, broccoli slaw, Brussels, etc) and then a starch (rice, sweet potatoes, regular potatoes)

Then I’ll do some sort of sauce…. whether it’s a Greek yogurt/sriracha sauce, tomatillo salsa, teriyaki sauce, Greek tatziki, etc.

There’s always variety with these options but never takes too much brain power to decide what to do.

well i mainly eat greek yogurt and protein shakes during the day but i have an air fryer in my office i will use to cook chicken so i keep it simple and just marinade a couple for me for the week and cook in office

for my kids I usually factor in 8oz chicken or steak for the older 2 for each da and 4oz for younger. then i usually buy the uncle bens microwave rice, black beans and corn and usually they have that everyday for lunch. sometimes its all of it, sometimes just the rice. sometimes I do some egg fried rice with the chicken or do some noodles and combine with the chicken. for the younger its mostly mac and cheese with the meet(he is 9) so i just cook that in the morning. goal for older 2 is 50g protein and 700+ calories

for their breakfast i usually make a bunch of eggs factoring 4 for oldest, 3 for middle and none for the younger for every day. then cook a bunch of bacon and some sausage. Ill do steak and eggs or bacon and eggs or sausage and make burritos or get up and cook biscuits and make them that or cook up some hashbrowns and make hashbrown bowls for them. Sometimes they eat breakfast sandwiches and a small protein shake. Goal is 40g protein and 500cals for older 2

i add butter and stuff like that to add calories if they need it.

I usually grill and whip up a side at night.

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I’ll trade you some delicious thighs for a bowl of that.

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Youre a coonass, I know you got them thighs fixed up right

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well i mainly eat greek yogurt and protein shakes during the day

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I'm glad I'm not the only one.

It's probably from years of IF, but eating a full meal during the day sort of makes me tired (probably just psychological). I've moved away from IF, so I can achieve my macros, but I find that yogurt shakes, yogurt, and/or protein shakes still give me that "lean" fasting feeling that I enjoy during the day vs. having an actual meal while still letting me hit my macros.

I'll also, once again, espouse one of my favorites for those who haven't tried it: Nancy's Probiotic Cottage Cheese.

This stuff isn't your mother's cottage cheese. Has much more of the sour flavor of yogurt (probiotics) while also having more substance to it... so it provides some texture variety for snacking if you're tired of yogurt and 14g of protein for 80 calories is pretty solid.

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but i have an air fryer in my office

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This made me laugh.

Baller move, bro. I never even considered this.

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This made me laugh.

Baller move, bro. I never even considered this.

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I worked at a school once where a teacher (who was absolutely incorrigible and basically a freaking anarchist... I don't think he's in education anymore) had a George Foreman grill in his classroom. He'd crack the windows, fry up burgers, and sell them to the kids at lunch. Needless to say, administration didn't appreciate his entrepreneurial spirit, but he had to have done it for like a whole semester before he got caught.

Man I wish I had the time for a better breakfast. I leave the house at 0430 so it’s usually something quick like a protein bar and some eggs. Once In a while I’ll get on the overnight oats wagon so it’s a lil bit of a change up.