Whole30 Meal Plan Week 5

Hello all!

Sorry for not getting this last post up! Time has been flying lately, especially with Jason and I getting ready to make our cross country move. It is hard to believe come next week we will be in Florida!

This is the final post in my Whole30 plan, and as you can probably tell from glancing ahead, there is no plan for the final two days. I want you to explore more recipes or make your favorites from the plan for the next two days. Soon you will have to be on your own and hopefully your relationship with food has improved in the past month. By making your own meal plan to end your Whole30, you are preparing yourself for the future. You are getting yourself geared up to continue this healthy lifestyle in a way that is customized to you and your family. So go a little crazy these last couple days! If you find a recipe you like, share it! I am always looking for new recipes because you can never have too many. Unless you ask my husband, because he finds my printed out recipes everywhere ;)

If this round of Whole30 didn't go the way you wanted to, don't be afraid to try to do it again. Or if you are feeling that tiger blood flowing and don't want to stop, then don't! This is all about you and your health, enjoy learning about yourself! Doesn't hurt that you get to eat yummy food in the process.

Whole30 Meal Plan Week 4

Hello everyone!

Sorry for getting behind on posting Week 4! Here it is!

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Week 4 Meal Plan

WEEK 4	Breakfast	Lunch	Dinner	Snacks
Monday	Oven Roasted Sausage and Potatoes	Left over Chili	Crusted Tilapia	Handful of nuts, fruits, more veggies etc
Tuesday	Breakfast "Burrito"	Left over Tilapia	Garlic Mustard Chicken	Handful of nuts, fruits, more veggies etc
Wednesday	Oven Roasted Sausage and Potatoes	Left over garlic mustard chicken	Salt and Pepper Shrimp	Handful of nuts, fruits, more veggies etc
Thursday	Banana and Cream "Oatmeal"	Left over Shrimp	Meat Balls with veggies	Handful of nuts, fruits, more veggies etc
Friday	The Meat Bagel	Ham wrapped asparagus	Left over meatballs	Handful of nuts, fruits, more veggies etc
Saturday	Apple Almond Bake	Beef Stew	Whatever you want!	Handful of nuts, fruits, more veggies etc
Sunday	Smoothie!	Eat whatever leftovers you have!	Beef Stew Sliders or just leftovers with veggies	Handful of nuts, fruits, more veggies etc

The Oven Roasted Sausage recipe calls for cheese, I just omit this to make it compliant.
Ham rapped asparagus- on recipe page, just something I made up.
Sliders (sweet potato buns) are on the recipe page as well

Week 4 Recipes click here

Week 4 Shopping List click here

Remember, everything here is a guide, if you want to change something GO FOR IT! Get crazy in the kitchen! Turn up that music and let the creativity flow! If you make an adjustment to something, let me know! I would love to add it to the notes so other people can benefit from it!

Whole30 Meal Plan Week 3

Hello again!

Week 3 is up and running! You will notice as the weeks go on the shopping list gets a little shorter. This is because you have "invested" in those certain ingredients I mentioned in the first week's meal plan. These would be like the Dijion mustard, almond butter etc.

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Week 3 Meal Plan

WEEK 3	Breakfast	Lunch	Dinner	Snacks
Monday	Banana and Cream "Oatmeal"	Crusted Tilapia with veggies	Garlic Lemon Chicken with veggies	Handful of nuts, fruits, more veggies etc
Tuesday	All Day Frittata	Left over chicken with salad	Left over Crusted tilapia	Handful of nuts, fruits, more veggies etc
Wednesday	Apple Almond Bake	Cilantro Burgers	Chicken Fajitas	Handful of nuts, fruits, more veggies etc
Thursday	All Day Frittata	Left over Cilantro Burgers	Left over Chicken fajitas	Handful of nuts, fruits, more veggies etc
Friday	Banana and Cream "Oatmeal"	Burrito Bowl with salad	Stuffed bell peppers	Handful of nuts, fruits, more veggies etc
Saturday	All Day Frittata	Pulled Pork Sliders or with veggies	Go out to dinner!	Handful of nuts, fruits, more veggies etc
Sunday	Smoothie!	Left over pork	Sweet Potato Chili	Handful of nuts, fruits, more veggies etc

Week 3 Recipes w/ "Natalie Notes" click here

Week 3 Shopping List click here

The shopping list is a guide!!! If you feel like you will need more food, then adjust it. If you don't have all the spices called for feel free to make substitutions! If you make a change and find that you really like it PLEASE let me know! I would love to share it with everyone else :) Variety = better whole30

Whole30 Meal Plan Week 2

Here it is as promised!

Working on Week 3...should be up soon!

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Week 2 Meal Plan

WEEK 2	Breakfast	Lunch	Dinner	Snacks
Monday	Chop n Drop	Stuffed Bell Peppers	Salt and Pepper Shrimp with veggies	Handful of nuts, fruits, more veggies etc
Tuesday	Meat Bagel with your choice of filling	Chicken salad with veggies, or chicken salad sliders	Burrito Bowl	Handful of nuts, fruits, more veggies etc
Wednesday	Chop n Drop	Left over Burrito Bowl with salad	Sweet Potato Chili	Handful of nuts, fruits, more veggies etc
Thursday	Asparagus Potato Hash	Left over Chili	Chicken Fajitas	Handful of nuts, fruits, more veggies etc
Friday	Banana Almond Butter Bowl with veggies	Left over Fajitas	Tuscan Pork Chops	Handful of nuts, fruits, more veggies etc
Saturday	Asparagus Potato Hash	Left over Pork chops with veggies	Go out to eat!	Handful of nuts, fruits, more veggies etc
Sunday	Smoothie!	Eat whatever leftovers you have!	Lettuce wrapped Salmon burgers	Handful of nuts, fruits, more veggies etc

• Cauliflower Rice Recipe for stuffed peppers, click here
• Banana Almond Butter Bowl is on the recipe list!

Week 2 Recipes w/ "Natalie Notes"click here

Week 2 Shopping List click here

Again the shopping list is more of a guide. You may need to adjust the amounts of each ingredient if you are cutting recipes in half or even doubling. I didn't include spices again so make sure you double check you have what you need to get some awesome flavors!

Whole30 Meal Plan Week 1

Whole30 here we come!

(If you haven't read the disclaimer..please do! Click here)

I will be uploading each week of my plan as I get it finished. I didn't think it would go public when I made it, so there aren't any links to the recipes, numerous type-o's probably and is just sitting in my google drive. So, I am working on it to make it compatible with blog spot and easy for you all to view!

There are some necessities that I always keep on hand EVERY week, so if they aren't on the shopping list, please assume that you will need them! I will try my best to include them in each shopping list.

Whole30 Necessities

• Lemon Juice
• Cashews 
• Almonds
• Romaine Lettuce
• Minced Garlic
• Variety of Spices (I bought this spice rack, and then I buy a few extra cheap spices from Walmart that look like this)

WEEK 1 MEAL PLAN

WEEK 1	Breakfast	Lunch	Dinner	Snacks
Monday	Ham Egg Cups with veggies	Garlic Lemon Chicken salad	Meatballs with Pepper or Zucchini Noodles	Handful of nuts, fruits, more veggies etc
Tuesday	Banana Almond Butter Bowl with veggies	Left Over Meatballs with veggies	Chicken Soup	Handful of nuts, fruits, more veggies etc
Wednesday	Ham Egg Cups with veggies	Left Over Chicken Soup	Crusted Tilapia with veggies	Handful of nuts, fruits, more veggies etc
Thursday	Ham Egg Cups with veggies	Left over Tilapia with Salad	Beef Stew	Handful of nuts, fruits, more veggies etc
Friday	Banana Almond Butter Bowl with veggies	Left over Beef Stew Meat in Sweet potato buns	Garlic Dijon Baked Salmon	Handful of nuts, fruits, more veggies etc
Saturday	Breakfast "Burrito"	Left over Salmon with salad	Go out to dinner!	Handful of nuts, fruits, more veggies etc
Sunday	Smoothie!	Eat whatever leftovers you have!	Burrito Bowl with veggies	Handful of nuts, fruits, more veggies etc

WEEK 1 RECIPES w/ "Natalie Notes" click here

• Whole30 Mayo- you will need this for dressings!
• Sweet Potato Buns- I use this with my stew meat and the recipe is on the google doc. 
• The Banana Almond Butter Bowl I made up myself, and the recipe is included in the google doc I attached!

WEEK 1 SHOPPING LIST click here

This shopping list is based on what my husband and I eat for that week. If you are feeding more or less people adjust accordingly. In my house we REALLY like onions and peppers so we throw them in everything. 

Also, I didn't include anything about spices. I have a spice rack that I use, so you can look at the recipes and see what you need before you head out to the store!

If you go through the first week and have feedback let me know! I would love to include other tips to make this work smoothly.

Whole 30 Plan Disclaimer

ATTENTION!!!!!!!

 

First off, thanks so much for wanting to check out my meal plan! I am super excited for you to start your Whole30 journey. It will definitely change your relationship with food and ultimately, your life. I would suggest reading the books associated with the diet first, but it's not absolutely necessary. (You can find the books here) And their covers are pictured to the right!
Now there are few things I want to address before you start on my meal plan. 

#1- I am not perfect, VERY far from it. So there might be type-o's, please forgive me. 

#2- You will notice that I have smoothies on my meal plan, that's because at the end of the week I have a TON of produce that needs to get used and won't last if I don't. So yes, I just throw it in the blender. The Whole30 recommends you don't do smoothies because since you're not chewing you don't get the same "full" feeling. I haven't had this issue, so this meal plan includes smoothies because that's just how it works for me. Feel free to alter it however you wish.

#3- This meal plan typically feeds two people with leftovers. Some recipes feed WAY more than two people and left overs, and I have made notes on those recipes to half it. If you are a family, you might not need to half it. 

#4-These recipes are not all my own, I found them on Pinterest and each one has the original link attached to it. 

#5- I put a column for snacks because at first, it is really hard for me not to snack. So I slowly wean myself off of snacking. I know the Whole30 says to eat enough at your three meals to stop snacking, but I am still trying to figure out that balance. 

#6- You will see fruit for breakfast. GASP! Yes, I eat fruit for breakfast and do it with a HUGE side of veggies. The Whole30 recommends to stick to mainly veggies with a little bit of fruit, which is great. On the days I have fruit for breakfast, I don't have anymore fruit the rest of the day. 

That is all I can think of right now.. If you find a mistake in my meal plan or have issues, let me know! Just be nice, remember, I am not perfect ;) 

...what's whole30?

Hello!

A few months back I finally hit what I guess was "rock bottom" with my health and appearance. I hated looking in the mirror, I hated getting dressed, and I hated having to go out in public. Looking back now that was absolutely ridiculous, but none the less I was on the search for a "diet" to get me back on track. First thing I did? Naturally I went to Pinterest to see what meal plans I could find that would fit my life. I didn't find anything that would work for me.

Then a month or so later a family member told me about the "Whole30." She said it wasn't a diet, it was meant to be a reset for your body. It was exactly what I was looking for! I checked out their website (click here) and felt like I finally found something that is healthy but not restrictive. Which I know may be ironic because with the Whole30 you aren't allowed to have certain things (see the list here) What I loved is that the point was making sure you felt full with the right foods, not going crazy with controlling portions or calories. Ain't nobody got time for that! ;)

SO SO happy they came out with the 2nd book to the Whole30!

I decided to do my first round of Whole30 beginning of October 2014. I wanted to be prepared, so again, I went to Pinterest (okay okay, I may be a pinterest junkie...) and searched for meal plans and recipes. What I found were some great meal plans, but a lot of the recipes called for weird ingredients that I had no idea where to buy or they didn't factor in left overs very well. Most didn't have a shopping list, and being the Type A person I am, I needed a shopping list because I am not a loosey goosey in the kitchen. I know, I am Latin, I should be able to just mix some seasonings together with some meat and voila! Masterpiece! Yeah, no. Still working on that haha.

My first round ended up being successful, but it wasn't as organized as it could be, So I decided for my second round I was going to make a meal plan, shopping list and compile the recipes into one place. A few girls at my work wanted to do it too and asked if I would send it to them, and eventually more and more people started asking for it so my good friend Jessie finally pushed me to start a blog to share my Whole30 plan. I hope it is helpful to those who don't know how to start their first Whole30 and even those Whole30 veterans!

I will be posting it week by week, just because I need to make some alterations and make it public worthy haha.