Food Prep Sundays (FPS)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I made baked oatmeal but most of it got eaten by the kids. Budget Bytes banana baked oatmeal. Has eggs in the recipe.

Also made naan. 4 for with tonight’s curry and freezing 4 for future use.

Also made a double batch of enchilada sauce. Half for enchiladas tomorrow and half for freezer.

Would love your naan recipe!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I made baked oatmeal but most of it got eaten by the kids. Budget Bytes banana baked oatmeal. Has eggs in the recipe.

Also made naan. 4 for with tonight’s curry and freezing 4 for future use.

Also made a double batch of enchilada sauce. Half for enchiladas tomorrow and half for freezer.

Would love your naan recipe!

I use this recipe. It’s really easy. https://www.budgetbytes.com/naan/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I made baked oatmeal but most of it got eaten by the kids. Budget Bytes banana baked oatmeal. Has eggs in the recipe.

Also made naan. 4 for with tonight’s curry and freezing 4 for future use.

Also made a double batch of enchilada sauce. Half for enchiladas tomorrow and half for freezer.

Would love your naan recipe!

I use this recipe. It’s really easy. https://www.budgetbytes.com/naan/

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

If I make a slaw-ish salad, I find I can eat it for a few days for lunches as it doesn’t wilt like a lettuce-ish salad will (like romaine or spinach or Bibb). Kale salads also work for the same reason.

[Anonymous]

Heavy on my meal prep rotation right now with 2 teen athletes. We eat a lot of grab and go.

Kodiak mix choc chip muffins or banana bread
2 lbs of chicken in the instant pot with salsa, shredded- for quesadillas or with microwave rice
Pizza muffins- 1 lb of dough split into 12 equal pieces. Put in muffin tin with cheese, sauce, toppings
Quiche or sheet pan eggs, heated up with English muffins and fruit
Pesto tortellini or ziti with red sauce for easy reheat

We eat real meals too that include vegetables. But for quick meals we always have a lot to grab on hand.

[Anonymous]

I’d suggest having some small Tupperware containers with chopped veggies or ham etc to add to eggs or salad etc. To add to scrambled eggs, salads, wraps etc. While scrambled eggs aren’t make ahead, they are so fast. I use the technique where you melt butter in a really hot pan, add eggs stirring vigorously for 30 seconds and then turn heat to low stirring, add a small amount of heavy cream once cords form and while stirring, serve. It takes maybe 3 minutes and people can throw in whatever add ins they want.

Quiche is another great option. Caramelizing onions over the weekend is great. They are great in quiches but also great on burgers and other recipes so make extra and use throughout the week.

Banana bread if they like this is a good breakfast option.

Potatoes heat up well too. I do hash one grating them, throw in caramelized onions and chopped green and red peppers.

Dinner
1. Bolognese sauce , doubling the recipe , is a good option for dinners. Use over pasta, save the rest for another dinner or freeze or use it in lasagna.
2.Chili is good. Eat alone, over spaghetti with shredded cheese or on grilled hotdogs.
3. Mexican shredded beef or chicken. I use the instapot with chicken, a can of chipotle chilis, salsa, chicken stock etc. If you want beef use pot roast, season more anchovies or chipotle chili powder, salt and pepper. Serve in tortillas, over rice with melted cheese , on nachos etc. My kids like the frozen Spanish rice at Trader Joe’s .
4. Shredded corn beef in a slow cooker. Can be used for sandwiches, on grilled cheese or with breakfast potatoes.

[Anonymous]

I wish I could be better about meal prepping on Sundays.

This week I managed some tuna salad and some cucumber salad and that's it. Oh, along with the blueberry lemon cake I have no business eating all week, lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please don't feed your kids oatmeal for breakfast. They need protein and carbs.

Make some egg burritos or egg bites or egg sandwiches instead. Easy to premake and heat up in the morning in the microwave. All of these can be made healthy and can be frozen as well.

Oatmeal is healthy. Very healthy.

In addition to providing protein and carbs, you're not serving frozen leftover eggs reheated in a microwave.

[Anonymous]

I've been prepping overnight oatmeal in mason jars - Once Upon a Chef has some good flavor variations. https://www.onceuponachef.com/recipes/overnight-oats.html

Her basic frittata recipe is excellent and very customizable.https://www.onceuponachef.com/recipes/how-to-make-any-frittata.html

I also love the egg bites recipe from NY Times. Don't be put off by the cottage cheese - it's undetectable in the finished product. https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1026338-cottage-cheese-egg-bites?unlocked_article_code=1.CFA.0-9f.raoCpY_QE8Q8&smid=share-url

[Anonymous]

You can buy egg bites at Costco. Unless there is some other filling you want, the homemade ones are not noticeably better so just buy them.

For rice, we buy the box of individual microwave sticky rice at HMart or Costco. It’s not meal prep but at Korean markets you can buy marinated beef or pork and quickly make Bulgogi in a wok. We buy the Costco frozen broccoli in steam bags.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find breakfast for kids pretty easy (bagel and lox, english muffin with pb and jelly, sunny side up egg on left over rice) and we just do yogurt and fruit so don't focus there but need food in fridge for nights we both work late.

Big batch of kale and chorizo soup (cook with onion, carrot, celery and beans).

Chili (we eat beef but turkey fine if you don't want red meat).

Roast a full chicken for sandwiches and a dinner.

Roast huge tray of veg .. broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, onions, mushrooms. Add to two different meals.

Slow cooked red cabbage is great for winter and lasts all week.

Have a big batch of rice ready to go with chicken or chili.

Corn bread for with soups or for breakfast.

Seafood is the only thing we eat lots of and I really prefer not to cook ahead (except for a ginger coconut milk shrimp stew).

These are all great but now I'm (unreasonably?) afraid of leftover rice.

Rice freezes well.

Leftover rice is wonderful for fried rice. Fry up with ginger, garlic, onion, soy sauce, a dash of sesame oil, frozen veggies, and an egg scrambled in at the very end. You can get those cubes of frozen ginger and frozen garlic at TJs to make this super easy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please don't feed your kids oatmeal for breakfast. They need protein and carbs.

Make some egg burritos or egg bites or egg sandwiches instead. Easy to premake and heat up in the morning in the microwave. All of these can be made healthy and can be frozen as well.

Oatmeal is healthy. Very healthy.

In addition to providing protein and carbs, you're not serving frozen leftover eggs reheated in a microwave.

NP - Oatmeal IS healthy, but it's also OK for people for people to freeze breakfast sandwiches with eggs. No need for your snark.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please don't feed your kids oatmeal for breakfast. They need protein and carbs.

Make some egg burritos or egg bites or egg sandwiches instead. Easy to premake and heat up in the morning in the microwave. All of these can be made healthy and can be frozen as well.

You know oatmeal is a carb? And it has 6 grams of protein. And if it's made with milk, it adds more protein.

I want to know how the PP you are responding to categorizes oatmeal!

DCUM will always have food idiots. As if eating oatmeal can be unhealthy. Or grapes. FFS.

Shouldn't eat grapes alone - for blood glucose spikes. should have with a protein. So grapes AND cheese, for example.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find breakfast for kids pretty easy (bagel and lox, english muffin with pb and jelly, sunny side up egg on left over rice) and we just do yogurt and fruit so don't focus there but need food in fridge for nights we both work late.

Big batch of kale and chorizo soup (cook with onion, carrot, celery and beans).

Chili (we eat beef but turkey fine if you don't want red meat).

Roast a full chicken for sandwiches and a dinner.

Roast huge tray of veg .. broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, onions, mushrooms. Add to two different meals.

Slow cooked red cabbage is great for winter and lasts all week.

Have a big batch of rice ready to go with chicken or chili.

Corn bread for with soups or for breakfast.

Seafood is the only thing we eat lots of and I really prefer not to cook ahead (except for a ginger coconut milk shrimp stew).

These are all great but now I'm (unreasonably?) afraid of leftover rice.

Rice freezes well.

And leftover rice has a lower glycemic index.

[Anonymous]

On the weekends I'll do things like pulled pork, beanies and weenies, soups, salads, sausage gravy, SOS--they get eaten all through the weeks for lunches.
Don't judge, I have a kid who loves beanies and weenies!