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11/22/2025

🌟 Meal Prepping for Kids = Happy, Healthy Families!

As a busy parent, I know how challenging it can be to keep up with healthy meals and snacks for the kids, especially during the school week. But meal prepping in advance has been a total game changer for us! 💪🏼

🥗 Homemade, Healthy Meals & Snacks = Better Choices 🥗
Making the time to prep meals ahead of time means I’m able to offer my kids nutrient-packed options that fuel their energy and keep them focused throughout the day. From homemade granola bars to colorful veggie-packed wraps, I love knowing exactly what’s going into their bodies!

👩‍🍳 Teaching Kids About Healthy Eating 👨‍🍳
One of the biggest benefits of meal prepping is that it’s not just about food—it’s a chance to educate my kids about nutrition. I involve them in the process so they can learn about what goes into their meals and why it matters. It’s all about building healthy habits early on, especially for growing athletes!

🏃‍♀️ Fueling Youth Athletes for Success 🏃‍♂️
Healthy meals and snacks are SO important for active kids, especially youth athletes who need the right fuel for their workouts and sports. That’s why I make it a priority to prep ahead—so my kids have the best possible nutrition to keep them at their best. 🌱

✨ Want to Learn More? ✨
This New Year, I’m excited to help more families make healthy choices for their kids—especially young athletes! If you’re looking for tips and recipes to fuel your little champions, drop a “YES” in the comments or DM me for more info! Let’s make 2026 the year of healthy eating for all our kids.

Meet the queen of colorful carbs: the purple sweet potato 👑💜Higher in antioxidants than both regular potatoes and orange...
11/17/2025

Meet the queen of colorful carbs: the purple sweet potato 👑💜
Higher in antioxidants than both regular potatoes and orange sweet potatoes, fiber-rich, gut-loving, and insanely delicious.
A little sweeter, a little earthier, and A LOT prettier.
Eat the rainbow — your body will thank you ✨

11/17/2025

Over coming Halloween, diving head first into Thanksgiving and the holiday season. The calendar is filled with lots of festive events and eating out. This weeks meal prepping is fueled by warm foods, good the the soul, good for your mood, easy recipes!

11/10/2025

Not my typical meal prep but that’s because we were celebrating birthday 🎉 we celebrated with some home cooked meals and still got some things prepped for the week!

✔️braised red wine chicken
✔️banana bread with flax seed and chocolate chips
✔️cutlets 😘
✔️shredded taco chicken
✔️nachos
✔️wings

☀️

🏈 Sunday Funday 🏈 Meal prep continues 🎉 With just a few weeks left in 2025, I’m determined to keep my meals on track for...
11/02/2025

🏈 Sunday Funday 🏈

Meal prep continues 🎉 With just a few weeks left in 2025, I’m determined to keep my meals on track for myself and the family!

We’re officially in the holiday season! There’s lots of fun gatherings with friends, busy schedules, but making sure there’s some consistency in meals can help keep you hitting your goals.

This weeks menu…

✔️Maple Dijon roasted turkey breast
✔️chicken meatballs with honey roasted parsnips and carrots
✔️roasted broccoli
✔️scrambled eggs with veggies and berries
✔️taco Tuesday ground chicken, beans and quinoa
✔️chicken sausage with butternut squash, arugula, and asparagus with potato gnocchi

This whole prep took me 2.5 hours. BUT you can cut time down in the kitsch with a few helpful swaps

✔️Frozen veggies
✔️Get microwave quinoa or farro
✔️instead of cooking ground meat—use your crockpot to set and forget

Want the recipes? Drop a comment 👇🏻

Tonight I tried 6 ingredient Apple cookies from head to her page to get the full recipe! Due to ingredients I had on h...
10/29/2025

Tonight I tried 6 ingredient Apple cookies from head to her page to get the full recipe!

Due to ingredients I had on hand I made some swaps and included:

✔️Apple cider vinegar
✔️Flaxseed
✔️Apple Pie Spice

These are a perfect breakfast bite, snack, and lunch box filler.

Not quiet a cookie 🍪 but a great way to curb that sweet tooth with wholesome ingredients.

Habit Building….It doesn’t always have to be perfect or elaborate. It’s about consistency.Sometimes I choose slow mornin...
10/26/2025

Habit Building….

It doesn’t always have to be perfect or elaborate. It’s about consistency.

Sometimes I choose slow mornings, coffee, and snuggles over hitting the kitchen.

Even with the weekend plans and slow mornings, I still was able to get some good prep work in to start the week off right.

A balanced breakfast, high protein and veggie loaded lunch, veggie and lentil soup to end the evenings.

Always do your best.

Kids Lunches 🎉One of my go-to lunches for the kids is roasted turkey. It’s easy and you can use it in a few different wa...
10/21/2025

Kids Lunches 🎉

One of my go-to lunches for the kids is roasted turkey. It’s easy and you can use it in a few different ways.

Sandwiches and wraps are a favorite in this house but just chopping it up with some cheese and fruit is fun way to mix things up.

Sunday 9am-1pm Shopping & Cooking Session 🧑🏽‍🍳 -Pumpkin and Parmesan Quinoa-Lemon and Thyme Chicken Meatballs-Red Wine R...
10/19/2025

Sunday 9am-1pm Shopping & Cooking Session 🧑🏽‍🍳

-Pumpkin and Parmesan Quinoa
-Lemon and Thyme Chicken Meatballs
-Red Wine Roasted Chicken
-Roasted Turkey (and sandwiches for game time)
-Roasted Brussels
-Roasted Carrots and Parsnips with honey
-Chicken Sausage with Beans and Kale

How I was able to balance meal prep on a weekend with 4 soccer games and a baseball game and why it helps keep me on tra...
10/12/2025

How I was able to balance meal prep on a weekend with 4 soccer games and a baseball game and why it helps keep me on track.

To be successful I have to stick to a routine and schedule. It becomes second nature and truly helps make sticking to this habit much easier.

Regardless of our schedule, I make sure I have a “menu” thought out and a shopping list ready to go.

I also look to see what meals I can make at certain points throughout the weekend. That planning helps me mentally prepare for what needs to get done.

I can also prep the kitchen to be sure I have the tools I need readily available.

Breakfast is super important for our family. It helps kick start to day, get your metabolism moving, and helps to stabilize blood sugar throughout the day.

This weeks breakfast menu (kids) 🌯
✔️ hash brown and egg burrito
✔️oatmeal bake
✔️protein pancakes

Parents Menu
✔️sweet potato egg and spinach bowls with chicken sausage
✔️ oatmeal bake

Snack are also a must prep for the house. It helps from that 3/4pm crash before dinner and eliminates the mindless eating. What’s been working for us lately:
✔️chicken cutlets
✔️fruit
✔️ protein muffins (homemade)

Having dinner done helps cut down on stress. The mom hustle is real and getting to a million practices and games limits my time to make a meal and feed our family when the schedule is tight.

Dinner menu this week to start

✔️chicken and rice bowls with roasted veggies
✔️chicken with spicy tomato pesto
✔️pumpkin chili

The reason this works for us is we make it a family affair. I cook and does the dishes. The kids get involved and make their school snacks and wash the fruit.

It doesn’t have to be stressful and it doesn’t have to fall only on YOU.

This weeks staples include some Fall veggies, pumpkin, and lots of flavor 😘Breakfast Prep - egg muffins - oatmeal bake w...
10/05/2025

This weeks staples include some Fall veggies, pumpkin, and lots of flavor 😘

Breakfast Prep

- egg muffins
- oatmeal bake with strawberries
- pumpkin pancake bites

Not pictured 📸
- Dave’s killer bagels
- Turkey Bacon
- Halo oranges

Lunch Prep

- chicken sausage with Brussels and quinoa
- quinoa bowls with grilled chicken, orange pepper and yellow squash 🌈

Dinner Prep - not everything pictured

- pulled chicken taco bowls
- chicken burgers
- sautéed shrimp bowls
- honey roasted carrots and parsnips
- chicken cutlets
- chicken sausage

I like to use the stuff I prep to mix and match our lunches we will incorporate all the prepped veggies into all of our meals as sides.

Consistency is key 🔑 the 3 things I still to every week to help keep me feeling prepared.🙌🏻 I go food shopping on a set ...
09/29/2025

Consistency is key 🔑 the 3 things I still to every week to help keep me feeling prepared.

🙌🏻 I go food shopping on a set day (mine is Friday) so that I don’t need to try and squeeze it in on a busy weekend.

🙌🏻 I prioritize getting a few meals prepped for the week. Even if it’s not a lot, but enough to start the week prepared and with healthy meals

🙌🏻 we review the upcoming week as a family. 15 min over breakfast to discuss what we have going on that week. This also allows me to see what days I can get in my workouts.

This wasn’t huge meal prepping weekend but I’m sticking to my routine and making healthy meals a priority. This is what I got done:

✔️Grilled Chicken and Broccoli
✔️ Ground turkey and cauliflower rice
casserole
✔️ Chicken cutlets
✔️sweet potato egg bowls

What I grabbed from my freezer stash to help with the kids breakfast and snacks…

👌🏻 Spinach scones
👌🏻 Blueberry muffins

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