I love meal
prepping. One thing about doing it post
RNY surgery is that I don't have to spend all day Sunday in the kitchen! I just come up with a couple things that will
last us all week, and voila! Done in
time to do my other favorite Sunday thing:
NOTHING! (I have to have a
certain amount of down-time these days, so don't judge).
Here is what is on
the menu for this week. Even though
these are bariatric-friendly, they are still good meal ideas. They just tend to last all week around our
house.
Sweet Potatoes &
Rotisserie Chicken
Rotisserie chicken
is the shit. Why did I not buy this
before surgery? It's so tasty, and
moist, and easy to clean to put into any chicken recipe you need. I prefer this over baking my chicken, since
baking it tends to dry it out. Grilling
would probably be a good option, and we bought a nice new grill last year - we
just never use it. We are pretty much
vampires when we are not at work. We
stay in our house. We love it. Don't judge.
Picked up some white
and garnet sweet potatoes this week.
I'll just bake these off in the oven at 425 for about an hour. Take 'em out, peel 'em, and then put into a
storage container INTACT so we can use them for lunches this week. Put the sweet potato in a bowl, throw some
chicken on top, and lunch is prepared.
We will nuke this for about 30 seconds or so and then drizzle a little
honey mustard on top before eating it.
Moistness is key for us bariatric folks, so we usually have some sort of
sauce or something on most things.
Eggy Muffins
I use a variation of
this
egg muffin recipe from Kalyn's Kitchen.
I've used it for years and is a staple in my routine. Since surgery I haven't had much luck with
eating eggs. 'lil Bastard doesn't care
for them much (that's my loving nick-name for my stomach pouch). Ben does fine with them though. He usually puts a little of the Herdez
Guacamole Salsa on them and he's good to go (again with some sort of sauce
on food). He eats a lot more often than
I do because of low-glycemic issues he has so when I make a batch of these they
will last all week long. Score.
Tipsy Beefy Tips
One of our favorite
recipes before WLS was this
one from Tasty Kitchen. Good Lord
this was good - I could just drink the au jus from a glass. I've been searching for something similar for
post WLS, and have come close, but not quite.
Although the original recipe was quite tender, it's better to use
smaller cuts of meat now, like tips, stew meat, or this week I'm using beef
that was marketed for carne picado. It's
basically thin slices of beef that I hope get really tender while being
slow-cooked.
I sliced an onion
and put it in the bottom of my crock pot, added the meat, and then mixed 3
packages of beef gravy mix with a bottle of beer. I added another beer and two beef bouillon
cubes because I thought it looked a little dry.
We shall see how this goes and I will report back.
Strawberries!
The only other thing
we eat a lot of I don't have to prep much for.
I just buy a crap-ton of yogurt, make sure we have every granola known
to man, and clean fresh strawberries to have for the week. This is one of my favorite things right
now. My favorite combo is honey Greek
yogurt with about a teaspoon of Truvia added, some cinnamon granola, and fresh
strawberries. 'lil Bastard is powerless
against this goodness.
Do you meal plan and
prep? Or do you wait for inspiration the
day of?
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