Happy Monday blogger friends! I'm going to post about something a little different today! A topic that is near and dear to my heart, MEAL PREP!

I love meal prepping! After moving to Omaha, and becoming more and more focused on health and wellness, I discovered the amazing benefit to meal prepping! The thing I love the most is how EASY it makes the rest of the week! Grab and go breakfasts, lunches and snacks that are healthy and guilt freeeeee! YASSS!

After the trauma of 2017, (getting in a car accident, losing my job/starting a new career, and entering into a new relationship) (Ok that last part wasn't traumatic 😏) I had lost ALL motivation to do any sort of meal prepping. I found myself eating like a 5th grader. A sandwich, fruit, chips, POP and a sweet. Or grabbing something easy, and FAST (fast food). Or eating leftovers from the night before. Now these things aren't bad every once in a while, but they just make for a boring, unhealthy and redundant lunch hour. I wanted to be excited about food again! I wanted to feel that sense of accomplishment after prepping a weeks worth of HEALTHY meals!

So I did.

Recently, I discovered the process of ordering groceries online. I have seen post after post from friends and family who have been doing this for a while and I just never took the plunge! Well in the spirit of all the changes I have been making, I decided to DO IT! And let me just tell you, it is LIFE CHANGING! I sat on my butt, meal prepped from Pinterest while simultaneously adding the items I needed to my online cart, chose a convenient time to pick them up and that was it! SO CONVENIENT! I went out to breakfast, did some laundry and cleaned out my refrigerator all before it was time to go get my groceries. (Like there were other people doing my shopping for me? WHAT!) Using the app, I checked in, pulled into one of the designated spots and BAM! There they were! Brought to me, and loaded into my car! WHAT?! REALLY?! Yes. It was like living in a dream. I will never buy my groceries the same way again! If you haven't done this yet, DO IT! I was hesitant at first, but boy am I a believer today!

This made meal prepping a cinch! I was so excited to get to it!

I started by making some Chocolate muffins for Reno. He likes his breakfast to be of the grab and go variety, and muffins are great for that! Baking up enough for him to have 3 a day, my apartment was smelling like Willie Wonka's Chocolate Factory.

As the muffins were baking, I prepped MY breakfast. I absolutely LOVE overnight oats! Not only is it super easy to make but its healthy as well and the options are endless! I decided to do one I've never done before, Strawberry Coconut Overnight Oats with Flax Seeds (for and extra kick of health in the morning!) Its so simple! All I did was mix the oats, cashew milk and plain Greek yogurt together, added a pinch of flax seeds, a dash of vanilla extract and mixed it all up until blended well! I cut up 3 strawberries per serving(5 servings total), and topped them off with unsweetened coconut flakes! That's it! DONE! Popped them in the fridge to chill overnight and it was on to the next prep!

Lunch prepping is really important to me, I typically head to the gym over my lunch hour so when its time to eat I need something healthy, filling and worth the wait! This week I decided to do Bang Bang shrimp with zucchini noodles and couscous! Sounds delicious right? YUP! This recipe was also extremely easy to make! I got a veggie spiral-er (is that a word?) for Christmas a couple years ago, and I LOVE IT! I made my zoodles and heated them up in some olive oil until they were tender! YUM! After those were cooked up, I started on the shrimp and couscous (Boil water, put in couscous..). HOLY BUCKETS! The shrimp needed to be peeled and deveined.. WHAT! You're meaning to tell me that I have to pull them out of their shells AND pull out those gross little black 'veins' (you cant fool me, I know what that is!) UGH! I committed to this recipe, so for the next 15 minutes, I was elbows deep in shells and veins. YUCK! (I'm still having shrimp vein flashbacks..)

The good thing about shrimp is that it cooks up soooo fast! So while those were cooking up, I made the sauce! I mixed together Greek yogurt, hot sauce, sriracha, honey and lime juice! This made for a sweet yet spicy shrimp sauce! Once my shrimp were nice and pink, I tossed them in the sauce until they were nice and coated! Added them to the containers with the zoodles and cooked couscous, and WHAM! Lunch was served! So amazing!  I continue to amaze myself. I am like my own cheerleader, patting myself on the back for a job well done!

The last thing I prepped was my healthy snack! This was the easiest of them all! I have these great little containers (from the container store, the most amazing place on earth!.. besides Target 😏) that fit my snack so perfectly! About 1/3 cup of grapes, 1 halo and a string cheese. Just over 100 calories, this snack is easy to prep and even easier to eat! LOVE IT!

I love love love meal prepping! I was able to meal prep 5 days of breakfasts x 2, 5 days of lunches and 5 days of snacks in under 2 hours! When I ate my prepped meals today, IT FELT AMAZING! I feel like I have my life together when I successfully prepare meals, and STICK to eating them!

Here is to finally committing 100% to the New Year New Me resolution! I have been doing pretty darn good with most of it, but not all of it. TODAY IS THE DAY MY FRIENDS!

Let me give you my 2 second review on the recipes I chose, BOMMMMMMBBBBBB. The lunch was so amazing, I had to refrain myself from licking my container while at my desk. It was THAT good!

Now, go and get your meal prep on!

P.S Meal prepping is exhausting, just ask sleepy Boone!