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Meal Prep Monday: Dinners for this week + our menu plan

My 10-day 10-minute fitness challenge starts today!

Meal Prep Monday: Dinners for this week + our menu plan

Welcome to my regular Meal Prep Monday post (SO many of you are loving these so we are going to keep going with this as long as I have time and ability to keep sharing. Best of all, it’s been helping out so much to have meals made ahead of time!!) This past week, we had a guest at our house and it was so nice to easily just invite them for dinner because it was pretty much all made and ready!

(Note: I’ll be out of town this weekend visiting my parents so I will be skipping Meal Prep Monday but I might share some pictures from a Valentine’s Dinner I’m helping my parents with in KS instead! Stay tuned!)

Tip: Need some help with cutting your grocery bill? Check out my post with six strategies I shared last week.

What I Meal-Prepped

Healthier Reese’s Bars — recipe coming soon. These are amazing!!

Homemade Tortillas — recipe coming soon. These are so delicious freshly made!

Homemade “Uncrustables” — I didn’t take the crust off so they are just freezer PB&J. But I’m calling them Uncrustables because that sounds cooler. Silas asked me if I could make some of these for him to have for lunches and snacks. Jesse was excited I made them, too!

Browned Ground Beef — Silas will use this for meals for himself this week (he loves to cook and makes himself multiple lunches for school.

Seasoned Baked Chicken — I made this for quick protein. I love to snack on it and add it to a place of veggies for a lunch or snack.

Odds & Ends Soup — I was planning to make Three Bean Chili Chowder, but we didn’t have the ingredients I thought we did. So I basically took odds and ends of canned tomatoes and one can of beans and garbanzo beans and added broth and veggies and some chicken and we’re going to call it some kind of soup and serve it with tortilla chips and shredded cheese.

Meatballs — It’s been a long time since we’ve had meatballs, a recipe we made often growing up. So I made these this week! (I left off the barbecue topping on the recipe, FYI.)

Chicken Tetrazzini — I made such a big pan of this that I’m pretty positive it will last for two dinners.

I tried a new recipe for healthy Reese’s bars. These were SO good!! (I’ll be posting the recipe here next week. Stay tuned!)

Jesse ate one of these after I made them and was like, “These are WAY better than actual Reese’s!”

I also made some homemade tortillas for eating with taco bowls.

If you’ve never tried homemade tortillas, they are so much better than store-bought (my recipe coming soon!). It’s much faster to buy store-bought, so I often do that if I find a good sale. But it’s fun to make them from scratch occasionally.

(In case you are wondering, the meatballs are not baked here yet! I wanted to get a pic of everything while there was still natural lighting!)

This Week’s Menu

Sunday — Fresh Apple & Orange Juice, Scrambled Eggs

Monday — Taco Bowls and Homemade Tortillas (this was on last week’s menu and we ended up having leftovers twice so we bumped this meal to this week!)

Tuesday — Odds & Ends Soup with tortilla chips and cheese, apple slices, carrots

Wednesday — Meatballs, Some Kind of Potatoes, Steamed Veggies, Fruit

Thursday — Chicken Tetrazinni, Fruit (I’ll be out of town.)

Friday — Dinner Out (I’ll be out of town.)

Saturday — Leftovers (I’ll be out of town.)

My 10-day 10-minute fitness challenge starts today!

Could you use a little extra encouragement and motivation to move your body? I can! One of my goals for February is to do a better job of prioritizing working out. I set a goal to work out 10 minutes a day in January, but then I didn’t plan to get it done early… which meant that most days it didn’t get done!

In February, my goal is to get up a little earlier and get my workout in first thing in the morning — before my day starts. I’ve been experimenting with this plan this week and it’s making such a difference. In fact, I have gotten my workout in every single day this week!

To help myself have accountability and to stick with my plan, I decided to invite anyone who wants to join me for a 10-day, 10-minute fitness challenge! Here are the details:

We start today, February 3, 2025, and it will run every weekday through February 14, 2025.
To join, just pick a 10-minute workout program or type of exercise you will commit to do for 10 minutes a day. (If you want to follow the plan I’m using, see below.)
Leave a comment below letting me know that you’re joining us and what workout program, exercise, or movement you are committing to do.
Follow me on Instagram and I’ll be posting a daily check-in post on stories after I complete my workout and will invite you to check-in and let me know you completed your workout, too. I can’t wait to cheer you on — and to have some extra accountability!

The 10-Minute Workout Program I’ll Be Doing

I’m going to use the 10 for 10 Challenge that is part of the many different workout programs and challenges offered through the Get Healthy U TV membership. You can get access to all of their workout programs and on-demand workout videos (they offer SO many different types of workouts!) for just $0.49 for an entire year!!

Once you sign up, just go to the challenges tab and look for the 10 for 10 Challenge. You can download a beginner or intermediate workout plan complete with videos walking you through the workouts every day. (All of the workouts are bodyweight workouts and you shouldn’t need any extra equipment!)