LIST: Healthy meal prepping ideas on a budget
LIST: Healthy meal prepping ideas on a budget
By The Signal reporter Hailey Lamoree
Provided is a list of foods with recipes to help show people what to eat in a day, while staying in a friendly budget. All meals provided below took less than 20 minutes to make and most importantly, inexpensive.
By The Signal reporter Hailey Lamoree
Provided is a list of foods with recipes to help show people what to eat in a day, while staying in a friendly budget. All meals provided below took less than 20 minutes to make and most importantly, inexpensive.
Breakfast
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. This breakfast is simple, yet effective and will keep a person full and happy until lunch time comes around. Oatmeal takes about one minute to make in the microwave, just add water or milk and it's good to go. This breakfast is perfect for a quick on the go meal.
Lunch
Pictured here is a meal prepped for lunch. It is highly encouraged to meal prep lunch and dinners for the week, especially for college students who have a busy schedule. This lunch is simple and most importantly, easy and quick to make.
Ingredients:
Chicken
Sweet potatoes
Brussel sprouts
Seasonings- lemon pepper, Italian seasoning, salt and pepper.
Directions:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F
With one sheet pan add chicken, lather with olive oil and season as desired. Next cut Brussel sprouts in half lather with olive oil and season as desired. Lastly, peel the sweet potatoes skin off, dice into cubes, lather with olive oil and season with salt and pepper.
Place sheet pan with food in the oven for about 15 minutes or until browned.
Dinner
Pictured here is a taco bowl meal prepped for dinner. It is best to use ground turkey as a ground beef replacement. The meat in ground turkey is more lean and heart healthy, therefore better to eat. This meal is delicious, healthy and easy to make!
Ingredients:
Ground turkey
Jasmine Rice
Roasted peppers
Shredded cheese
Avocado (optional)
Seasonings- Taco seasoning, salt and pepper.
Directions:
To make rice, if there is not a rice cooker available, grab a medium size pot and add 2 cups of water. Boil water and add 1 cup of rice with a little bit of olive oil. Put lid on pot and cook until rice is boiling. Once rice is boiling, reduce heat to simmer and let it simmer until water has been absorbed in rice. When water has been absorbed, turn off heat and let sit for 10 minutes.
To make ground turkey, In a large pan, add 2 lbs of ground turkey. Season with salt and pepper and cook until brown. Drain ground turkey, add ground turkey back into pot and add the taco seasoning with as much water the packet asks for. cook meat with water until water starts boiling. Then simply reduce heat, cover with lid and let it sit for 10 minutes.
Lastly, slice bell peppers and onions in a large pot and sauté them over medium to high heat.
Snacks
Pictured here are some snack options that are good and nutritious. One thing to look for when shopping is how many carbs, sugars, protein and calories are in each food item. It is important, depending on what type of diet you are on to have a good healthy balance of each nutritional value in your diet. Eating healthy doesn't have to be restricting, one thing that's important is to find a balance within your diet, because everyone deserves to be healthy and happy.
Snacks pictured:
Mandarins
Avocados
Bread
Cheese sticks
Rice cakes
Protein bars