Back to Basics Challenge
 

I stated on another thread that our center used to have a class that was called Back to Basics. Of course they went over all the rules and food options....knowing that you can only have cheese at 1 meal in a day so if you have it at breakfast don't add it to lunch or supper sort of thing....but the best part of that class was the challenge that we got and here it is!

I challenge you to plan one full week of meals now for next week.
***You can only have the same thing 2 times. So if you make extra french toast for breakfast you can have it later but only 1 time.
***You have to plan 1 meal that your whole family can eat.

This challenge will get you thinking.....make it easier to premake food and remotivate you by giving you options so you are not bored. Post your ideas here! Lets have many week menu options so we can all have boredom busters!

Monday
Breakfast - Wrap-ini One low cal tortilla wrapped around 1 egg and 1 oz cheese; grilled on george forman to look "panini-esc) and HNS
Lunch - Taco Buffalo Meat stuffed Green pepper and HNS with Frozen fruit smoothy
Afternoon -- Have HNS following workout
Supper - Turkey Meatballs with Orange HNS/ginger and red pepper sauce served over spaghetti squash (kids love this too so this is a family meal)

Tuesday
Breakfast Smoothy made with Cottage Cheese, Mixed Berry HNS and 1/8 c dry Oatmeal (add water to thickness desired)
Lunch - Bake Chicken Breast on Sunday before the week starts so it is in the fridge.....use in a salad with a small apple and HNS
Afternoon -- HNS to add time so I can eat with family
Supper - Jalapeno Buffalo Burgers served with Green beans and a slice of toast. Kids will have Sweet Potato Fries added as a side to make family meal

Wednesday
Breakfast - 2 Hardboiled eggs (made on Sunday in the fridge) and a slice of Cinnamon/Splenda toast with HNS
Lunch -- Tuna made with "smoothed" cottage cheese and veggies into a salad, celery for dunking into the tuna salad and a orange smoothy made with HNS
Afternoon -- HNS after workout
Supper -- Slow cooker "roast" Chicken using the Sweet Chicken Wing Seasoning in the recipe section.....roast veggies (I include tatos and sweet tatos for the kids but I only eat the veggies), slice of toast

Thursday
Breakfast - Egg Wrapini with HNS
Lunch - Cheeseburger Soup (no starch) with fruit and HNS smoothy
Afternoon -- HNS to add time so I can eat with family
Supper -- Salsa Chicken on Brown rice for the kids.....served over salad for me. Black beans in salsa for the starch

Friday
Breakfast -- Breakfast Pizza made on a low cal tortilla with egg, cheese and 1 tsp of la vicoria salsa as "pizza sauce" served with HNS
Lunch -- other chicken breast made on sunday with steamed garlic green beans and small apple and HNS
Afternoon - HNS following workout
Supper - Taco Chilli made with turkey burger.....served in bread bowls for the kids....just the yummy chilli for me

Saturday
Breakfast -- French toast --make 2 slices (1 for Sunday) with orange HNS
Lunch -- Unwich from Jimmy JOhns with orange and HNS
Afternoon -- HNS after family workout/outting/fun time
Supper -- Slow Cooker Pork tenderloin and veggie mix 2oz, side salad with melba toast "croutons" and MRC ranch

Sunday
Breakfast -- French toasts and HNS
Lunch -- Cod, steamed veggies and Frozen fruit HNS smoothy
Afternoon -- HNS to add time
Supper -- ??? I will have to think and come back to this


I try to make supper time family friendly so I am not making too many meals

WOW some great meal ideas!

I guess I need to try some turkey burgers and season to make chili and finally have some green chili!

Do you use the Jennie-O ground turkey? I've never bought any...

I don't like the flavor of Jenn-o.....I buy the 96% FF bulk turkey burger from Sam's Club. It is way less expensive than beef and to be honest we like it better. I had started by mixing 1/4 turkey with 3/4 beef....then 1/2 and 1/2 until we now rarely even buy beef. I did get some a couple weeks ago when I was entertaining company and was worried that the company wouldn't like the turkey, but my boys complained that I got too much oil in the pan when I cooked! LOL I won't be catering to company any more. My kids were upset to I made some extra meat my way and the guests liked it better! Lesson Learned.

Just try the chilli and the turkey burgers too. Turkey burgers are so good. If you add diced jalepeno and green pepper and chicken Mrs. Dash it is an excellent Jalepeno burger! everyone gobbles it up.

I dont like Jennie-O either. Not a fan of any of their "processed" turkey meats either (hot dogs, bacon, etc). Bought it for the kid and hubby...they didn't eat it, so i tried a bite...yeah not good. You know a hotdog is bad when a toddler won't eat it! We go with Oscar Mayer's turkey hotdogs for the boys now and usually butterball ground turkey or cutlets. If you've never cooked turkey cutlets...they're great for when you want a "steak" kind of feel. They're YUM!

Thanks Jewelie and Hvnly! I really appreciate the tips! Sounds like I have another item to add to the shopping list. Maybe it's a good thing I need to buy some more bread! I will definitely be trying the ground turkey this weekend. I'm so tired of chicken, I made some last night, then promptly put it in the freezer and made some eggs for dinner!

OK....sunday night supper is Turkey "spaghetti" with spaghetti squash