Meal Prep: Whole Foods Style

Over a year ago, Mr. decided he wanted to try a vegan diet after reading about plant based athletes on The No Meat Athlete. I already didn't eat red meat or pork and was limiting dairy but was in no way ready to go vegan. He tried it for a week while he was away for work and came back deciding to adopt a vegetarian diet. This was a way easier adaptation of our current diets.

That being said, we decided to make a more conscious effort to incorporate more whole foods into our vegetarian diets while planning ahead. I found great, weekly meal plans on Whole Foods Market's website and stayed busy compiling them into documents, adding shopping lists, and adapting some recipes. Sundays are our shopping and meal prep days. So far, this has been working for us, and hopefully it is something we can keep going throughout 2014. 

You can find this weeks meal plan here. 

Sundays we pour a drink, watch some trashy TV (Hello, Juan Pablo!) and get to chopping. We split up different meals so we each have a few things we are working on. Sometimes whole meals are prepped in advance (like this week's sloppy janes that we made with tofu instead of turkey) and sometimes we just prep the veggies (like chopping the red pepper and garlic for the collard wraps and carrot, green pepper, and eggplant for the pasta sauce this week). 

Hello, Juan Pablo!

Sometimes we get a lot done, and sometimes we don't, but either way, we are spending time together and working towards our goal of feeding our family healthy dinners. I hope with time, our system will evolve and we will have quicker methods that will make meal prep even easier for us.