What I Ate This Week: Fresh, Healthy & Easy Meals

It’s another week in meals! I’ve done this before on the blog and thought I’d do another to give you an idea of what a week in meals looks like for me. During the week I try to stay on the healthy side and I enjoy preparing quick meals that I can prep or make quickly while I’m working from home. I also try to plan dinners and how the leftovers can turn into healthy meals the following day. Planning the week ahead and preparing to post about it definitely helps me to stay on track with my goals and utilize all our produce without any waste. Here is what I ate this week:

What I Ate This Week: Fresh, Healthy & Easy Meals

Breakfast

This week I prepared two of my go-to breakfasts. Depending on what I am feeling like they both are great options to keep me full and satisfied, while also being healthy and easy to make.

This go-to option for breakfast is a quick egg scramble with spinach and tomato. Once the veggies are sauteed, I crack 1-2 eggs (depending on my hunger level), scramble everything up with salt and pepper and serve.

Breakfast option number two is on the sweeter side, with these whole wheat protein pancakes, smothered in berries and a tablespoon of pure maple syrup.

You can find these in the freezer department at Aldi (I am not making fresh waffles during the week, these babies pop right in the toaster for a few minutes.) Rylee loves them too and she is a huge fan of berries so this is one of her favorite breakfasts in the morning as well. Two waffles is 12 grams of protein and only 220 calories.

Lunch

Lunch this week did work around some leftovers I had in the fridge from the weekend. I cooked salmon and used that for two days this week. I served one lunch with some leftover green beans and a homemade Greek chickpea salad.

I used the other piece of salmon on another day, with a salad filled with fresh veggies we had in the fridge like spinach and Italian mixed lettuces, tomatoes, cucumbers, olives, red/orange peppers, topped with sunflower seeds for crunch and an olive oil and vinegar dressing.

One of my new go-to lunches are these Greek “lettuce pita” gyros. I used leftover lemon-pepper, oregano seasoned chicken and filled them into these butter lettuce cups, added tomatoes, red onion, cucumber, feta cheese and Aldi’s pre-made tzatziki sauce which is incredible.

They are delicious and really filling too.

Dinner

Dinners included a normal Greek Pita, filled with chicken and all the veggies, and of course that tzatziki sauce.

We also had our typical Taco Tuesday night. I served my tacos on corn tortillas and made three little tacos. I like to preheat the corn tortillas in the air fry for a few minutes before topping them to make them a bit more sturdy and easier to eat. I like the texture better that way, too.

Not pictured was also one night of our go-to seasoned chicken thighs with a side of vegetables. It’s such an easy dinner to make and so satisfying when we can’t think of anything else. You bake the chicken thighs until they are cooked through and have good color on them and then serve it with whatever sides you can think of. Mac and cheese, rice, veggies, salad are all good options.

Sunday night dinners are always our go to spaghetti and sauce. Rylee actually made it this week, and I served mine over whole wheat pasta while the rest of the fam enjoyed Angel Hair. And to add some veggies to the mix, a salad on the side. There’s always something really comforting about ending the weekend with a delicious spaghetti dinner.

Dessert / Snacks

For snacks this week, I reached for my go to pantry staples. One morning I was rushing out the door to get to the office and grabbed this protein shake for breakfast. Which, with 30 grams of protein, was really helpful to have and filled me up until lunch. That day we ordered in soup and salad from Olive Garden, so I was able to stay on my healthy track (skipping the breadsticks of course, which I don’t really love that much anyways, so it worked for me!)

And in the afternoons if I needed a snack, I reached for one of these Maxx bars from Aldi. I love that they are not too sweet, which a lot of protein/snack bars are, and it has simple ingredients.

I still can’t help just a tiny bit of sweet as a nightcap at the end of the day. So I’ve been steering towards these babies for 1-2 little sweet treats at the end of the day. They are so good and can be addictive, but usually 2 little berries does the trick as they are pretty sweet.