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Hi and welcome back for another weekly Wellness Vlog with chibi today we’re going to be talking about meal prepping yes meal prepping because if you know me I am a meal prep Queen I love to be prepared because because I will tell you when I am not I
Am very hard on myself I don’t stick to my goals as much and truthfully I also skip meals because for me in my mental health I just feel like depending on my mood I just don’t eat sometimes if I don’t think about it right so me being prepared and having my
together which means having my meals ready really really helped me stay aligned help me get those nutrition meals in and really just feel good in my body because when you don’t eat if you skip a meal it’s so hard on your mental health it’s so hard on your body because
You don’t have the energy to push forward your body is like searching for that energy so instead of that we’re prepared we are getting our meals ready we are getting our meals ready so I’m going to take you with me today I’m going to show you how I plan for the
Week how I plan my meals and I’m also going to show you how I prepare in the kitchen so I’m going to show you a few recipes today and I’m going to just again break it all down for you I’m going to share all my tips for you
You’re going to have all of it hopefully by the end you’re going to be like I can do it she can do it I can do it I’m hoping that this video is going to show you exactly what you need so you can also be prepared and you can crush your
Goals and you can feel good in your body because you got your meals ready and you’re ready to crush the week so I’m hoping that’s what you get from this video I’m hoping that you get all of my tips you absorb them and you put into action ever you have any questions
Throughout this video please make sure to comment below and if you like this video to like And subscribe so I can continue making some Vlogs for you and share all of my healthy wellness tips all right let’s go to the grocery store cuz we’re already here and then I will see you at
Home all right so we just got home home from the grocery store we got everything that we need super excited I love meal prepping it’s just like it’s just such a stress reliever because then I know my meals are ready I’ve got food I’ve got
Some good food to help me on my progress and just again feeling good feeling good right so obviously I don’t just go to the grocery store without a plan especially without a grocery list first of all that is just like chaos Wai need to happen in my opinion I do not like
Going to the grocery store if I do not have a grocery list cuz I just end up buying whatever and any anything that I’m just like oh this looks good this looks good waste money and I honestly feel like I never really get anything that completes a meal because I’m just
Like scatter brain so I learned my lesson and now I go with a plan and a grocery list so I’m going to show you exactly what I do to prepare myself and come up with a plan that way when I’m home like I am right now all I have to
Do is whip it up put it together and be done super easy so the hardest part is honestly just planning what you want to eat so step number one I always look in the fridge to see what I have to eat to see what needs to be eaten right you
Don’t want to waste any food and don’t want to waste any money so that’s the first thing that I do second I ask myself what am I craving this week am I like is there anything specific that I’ve been wanting and like a lot of the
Times I don’t really crave much I’m just like I just kind of flow with it to be honest so not craving anything nothing in the fridge actually this time around so that’s great so we have so much freedom in choosing what we want to eat
Now one thing I would suggest is is like my schedule is very flexible if you will I know some of you probably have a routine schedule like if you work nights this that this so making sure you also are taking into account like what you’re
Going to be doing that week so if like let’s say if you have like work lunches and stuff like that so obviously just planning around your schedule as well like hey like how many meals do you want to make how many you know so on and so
Forth so making sure that you kind of like have that idea I actually do write out like my weekly menu let’s call it a weekly menu I actually look at my weekly menu like hey like Monday Tuesday Wednesday I’m going to have like this for lunch usually I have the same thing
For lunch for like 3 days then I’ll have like a little bit of like whatever on the fourth day and then usually the fourth day will be like my meal prep day and then the next 3 days I’ll have the same lunch again so basically I meal
Prep like twice a week and have like a whatever meal in between on the days that I meal prep like today I had avocado toast and halumi for lunch but before that I had like the meals that I had prepared for like the last 3 days
Right if that makes sense I kind of do the same thing every week obviously things change sometimes I go 2 Days in between of meal prepping or whatever it is that’s just like a me tip so I look at my week as well to make sure that I’m
Planning accordingly and that no meals are going to go to waste so look in your fridge what are you craving look at your schedule those are the three things and then I pop open Pinterest and I search I’m not even sure what keywords I use I
Really don’t I just I search and things pop up and because I search so much that like things are just there for me and I’m like oo this looks nice and then I’ll keep looking then I can honestly get lost and Pinterest a lot of times I
Do it on the treadmill while I’m walking in the morning just like a nice little easy walk getting my steps in and I’ll like search Pinterest and find recipe now the thing is I find recipes for inspiration I don’t find recipes to copy because a lot of the times it has foods
That don’t agree with my body I don’t necessarily Thrive off of or I don’t like so what I do is I just use it as inspiration I’m like o this looks nice this dressing looks nice I never thought of this combo whatever it is right I
Just find that inspiration to get get me started and then I plan my meals this is exactly what I did for what I’m going to do today so I found this Jennifer Aniston Herby lemon quinoa salad I was like this sounds phenomenal it has pistachios feta if you know me I love my
Feta and I love my pistachios and I love a homemade dressing so anyway the salad looks absolutely amazing it is vegetarian which is awesome like to change it up sometimes and not always have meat however kinoa is something that doesn’t agree with my my gut unfortunately I’m really sad about it I
Love quinoa but I just can’t stomach it I keep trying every so often anyway that’s a sad story but I’m not going to get into right now but Kino is something that doesn’t agree with me so what I did is instead of that that’s obviously a
Healthy carb and it has some protein so I’m looking at like K like what can I substitute it with if you know me in my recipes I love edamami beans so of course I substitute it for Ed Momi beans so now what I’m going to do is I’m going
To write down all my ingredients that I’m going to put into this salad on my list okay that’s what I did earlier is I put all on my list what is going to be in this salad so that’s going to be my lunches all right so for my dinners what
I had tried to do before is make like three lunches and three dinners just having everything ready easy grab and go however I get really bored of having the same thing for lunches and dinners I can do like one meal the same every day for
3 days but two meals the same for 3 days in a row kind of gets a little boring what I have been doing and I’m loving is I actually make like three to four chicken breasts I pick a theme Like A vibe if you will for the chicken last
Week I made a pesto chicken this week I’m going to make a Mexican chicken so that way I can choose what I’m feeling for dinner but my chicken like the hardest part the longest but the thing that takes the longest is already done for me the chicken takes the longest
It’s done it’s ready it’s prepped all I have to do is to it with a carb some veggies and a healthy fat right easy peasy so what I’m going to do is I picked up some wraps so I can make some tacos and I already have rice that way
This chicken I can either make a Mexican rice bowl or I can make some tacos with it so freaking easy right right I know all right so now we have our lunches and ideas for dinner already done got our grocery list whatever step we’re at I’m
Not even sure what step we’re at for maybe um I’m going to grab my fitness palette on my phone and I’m going to enter in my portion sizes that way when I’m cooking I know exactly what I’m making it’s basically like following my own personal recipe but this way it also
Shows me where I could be lacking protein because I enter obviously my lunches cuz we’re completely making them today fully the chicken we’re just going to add how much chicken we’re going to have cuz we’re going to make three or four portions of chicken so we’re going
To add that already into my fitness pal for the dinner but we’re not going to add the carb or anything else yet because we’re just going to do that the day of depending on what we’re feeling but this allows us to see like where we’re at in the day for protein and I
Really want to hit my protein so this is going to let me see like what I should be having for breakfast and snacks so when I do go to the grocery store so I can get stuff for breakfast and snacks as well if need be so that’s basically
How I get everything prepared so now that I have my grocery list I would typically go to the grocery store and get my stuff but since we’ve already done that we’re just going to head to the kitchen and get cooking we’re very lucky today cuz all we really have to do
Is cook our chicken everything else is pretty much just the chop up the chickp peas are I bought them in a can so they’re already cooked added mommy beans I already had them soaking in water which I’ll explain in a minute but other than that everything else is pretty much
Done so it’s going to be nice quick easy meal prep today let’s get to it so I make sure to rinse my chicken first and and then Pat it down dry I just find this helps keep the rub on there a lot better than if they were
Obviously like slimy and soaking wet not going to take you through all of this but I’m going to chop up my chicken and dice it up into small pieces that way it just Cooks a lot faster I’m going to shred my chicken as you’ll see once it’s
Done I just started eating chicken again so the texture for me is just kind of odd so I really like it I like it better shredded let’s just put it that way so I’m also making sure to weigh my chicken before I cook it this just allows me to
Get more of an exact measurement of what my portions are going to be like and then we are going to make our rub don’t judge me on my my lack of seasoning organization this is what it is right now all in bags so just mixing it nice
And good I’m going to have the recipe down below for you so you can check that Out I already defrosted my analii beans because I try and reduce heat as much as possible when you add heat to Whole Foods it actually takes away some of the nutrients heat takes away nutrients so that’s why I like to soak my anomi beans as much as possible cuz they always come
Frozen in Canada I always try and do this the first thing that way while I’m getting everything else ready this is typically already already defrosted I can just add it into my salad add into my bowls whatever it is this is still needs a few more minutes to be defrosted
So in the meantime we’re going to weigh out our pistachios and chop up everything for the salad then split it up into three portions for lunches make our dressing and then we’ll be done with that salad that’s probably going to take me about 20 minutes to prepare so again
Really easy meal prep for you Today So for the chickpeas I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed there’s a casing on them I actually do take the time to take it off I find it it just helps my gut a lot more than having this casing on there it it is a little bit time
Consuming so toss your favorite music on and start peeling your chickpeas but look how much casing is on there I don’t know I just I don’t think it’s really great for your stomach so I like to take it off then I give them a nice rinse
Just to make sure that all the casing is indeed Off Good All right so let’s make our dressing we’re using avocado oil 3 teaspoon and then we’re using this honey that has a little bit of Ginger and lemon in there already it’s just the only honey that I have so you can just use regular honey so we’re using two teaspoons of that and
Then we’re going to squeeze half a lime in there as well I like to make my own dressing because a lot of pre-bought dressings have oils in there that are actually inflammatory for the body so sticking with like avocado oil coconut oil extra virgin oil and sesame oil too
For dressings is really good so again just like to make my own and it’s super easy to make as Well And by the time that was all made it is time to pull apart our chicken cuz our chicken was ready and it’s already cooled down honestly I just use my fingers just so much easier this way and pulling it into small pieces is just as
Best as I can do easy peasy and then let’s make some meals with this Chicken I hope you guys enjoyed this Vlog and you are going to try some of the recipes that I shared with you today if you do have any questions or if you want more meal prep videos just let me know in the comments I do like making the meal prep
Ones cuz again I do it every I do it every week I do it twice a week so if you want me to do more of these and show you guys more recipes just let me know if you do want recipes though I do create a recipe book every single month
With about 20 of my favorite recipes that I make throughout the month and you can either get that by becoming an exclusive member on YouTube which is $4.99 I think a month or if you’re in my app you also get that for free included
As well so and if you know me all my recipes are super simple nourishing and will help you reach your health goals as well I also share a lot of re P’s on my Instagram some meal inspiration on there too so if you’re not following my
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Restricting calories you know eating a bunch of sugar like I’m trying to get my hormones back on track I’m trying to you know build a healthy body so I can feel super confident every single day so I’m sharing my tips with you I’m sharing my journey so I can hopefully inspire you
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