I had so much awesome feedback from last week’s meal planning post, that I am going to try to do it more often! This week will be a lot of trying to get back into good habits, after a long weekend in Boston and A LOT of bad, but delicious, food + wine. Whenever I am trying to detox after a weekend of overindulging, I start every morning with lemon water + a shot of apple cider vinegar (before coffee) and I try to keep my first meal really clean and full of detoxification foods (oatmeal, kale, blueberries, etc.). For me, when I start my day healthy, I am way more likely to continue to practice healthy eating habits the rest of the day. When breakfast starts out with a big, butter-soaked skillet + a side of chocolate chip pancakes (which happens more often than I would like to admit) the rest of my meals usually follow suit.

Like last week’s meal plan, I usually only plan to make 2-3 legit meals throughout the week then eat the rest as leftovers. I am not the type of person who can plan out EXACTLY what I am eating for every meal in advance. When I have a craving, I have to eat exactly what I am craving at that moment. It’s bad. So instead of planning every meal, I buy ingredients for meals I know that I like, and then eat them when they sound good to me. For example, I will plan to eat oatmeal or a smoothie for every breakfast this week, but have whichever sounds best to me each day. Here is a breakdown of this week’s meals and a grocery list!

BREAKFASTS –

oatmeal + blueberries

almond milk + kale + flax seed + fruit smoothies (I always have a freezer baggie – which I call my ‘dump bag’ – full of an assortment of frozen fruit…when fruit is about to go bad in the fridge, I wash it and throw it into the dump bag)

LUNCHES –

Tomato, mozzarella + avocado (with lemon)

Leftovers

DINNERS –

Tacos + guac (this is one of my favorite meals because the leftover options are endless, burrito bowl, quesadilla, etc.)

Chopped salad (chicken, egg, bacon, avocado, green onion, cabbage, tomato)

Quinoa bowl (quinoa, chicken, sweet potato – I am going to attempt to make a copycat recipe of the most amazing miso glazed sweet potatoes from True Foods Kitchen, I pinned the recipe HERE, black beans, guac)

SNACKS –

Grapefruit

Oranges + walnuts

Popcorn

Apple + peanut butter

Yogurt

WHAT I ALREADY HAVE

tomatoes

cabbage

chicken (in freezer)

grapefruit

apples

oatmeal

frozen berries

walnuts

soy sauce

sesame seeds

frozen fruit

kombucha

apple cider vinegar

GROCERY LIST

almond milk

eggs

mozzarella

yogurt

honey (subbing this for the agave in the miso sweet potato recipe because I use honey all the time, just happened to run out the other day)

tortillas

black beans

ground beef

bacon

onion

ginger

green onion

sweet potato

avocado

kale

lettuce

lime

jalapeno

lemon

oranges

I’ll post a pick of what my groceries total up to on instastories on Monday!