Meal Prep March 11, 2019

5 rotations down, 4 to go! Next on the list is my elective, which I am so, so blessed to have gotten GI. So excited about it in fact, that each time I tried to right bowl in this post I accidentally typed bowel. Anyways! New meal plan with grocery list and recipes is bowel. Oops, I mean below***

breakfast:

• sweet potato carrot muffins
• overnight oats 
• banana pear spinach smoothie

main meals:

• kale, butternut squash soup
• sun-dried tomato chicken
• left over kale and spinach to make into salad with tomatoes, hummus, cucumbers

snack:

• vanilla cashew oat bites
• carrots / cucumbers with hummus
• cashews with chopped veggies / pear 
• pear / banana with almond butter 

grocery list:

• bananas (5)
• pears (5)
• dates
• mushrooms (1 carton) 
• carrots
• cucumbers
• celery
• tomatoes
• garlic
• kale
• spinach
• artichoke
• sun-dried tomatoes
• squash
• sweet potato (1 large)
• zucchini noodles 
• white onion 
• shallot (1)
• organic chicken breasts
• hummus
• eggs
• cashews
• walnuts
• cacao nibs 
• coconut milk (2 cans)
• vegetable broth
• almond butter
• dates
• coconut shreds
• rice 
• spices: olive oil / avocado oil, old bay seasoning, turmeric, salt, pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking powder, baking soda, vanilla extract 

sweet potato muffins

• 1 large sweet potato, roasted and mashed (~2 cups)
• 2 large ripe bananas, mashed
• 2 eggs
• 1 cups almond milk
• 1 tbsp vanilla extract
• 1 cup almond flour
• 1 tbsp cinnamon
• 1/2 tbsp nutmeg 
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 cup chopped walnuts 
• 1/4 cup cacao nibs 

1. Preheat oven to 350F
2. Bake sweet potato until tender (~1 hour)
3. Combine wet ingredients in one bowl: mashed banana, mashed sweet potato, eggs, vanilla extract, almond milk 
4. combine dry ingredients in another bowl: almond flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking powder / soda, chopped walnuts, cacao nibs 
5. Bake for 40-45 minutes

banana pear spinach smoothie

• 1 banana
• 1/2 pear
• 2 handfuls spinach
• 1-2 cups homemade oat milk 
• 1 tbsp almond butter 
• few sprinkles of cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
• pinch of sea salt

soup