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Lunch is served! And thanks to the work I did over

Lunch is served! And thanks to the work I did over the weekend, it only took 3 minutes to toss this all in a container to take to work with me! So much tastier, nutritious and more affordable than any lunch I would have bought while on the road too. 🙌

Buddha grain bowls are the best way to use ingredients you have on hand in a creative way! This one is a bed of quinoa topped with roasted carrots, beets, tofu, avocado, beet hummus and feta.

Since I already prepped everything else, all I had to do was slice up the fresh avocado. I don’t think it gets any easier than that!

Do you have a favorite buddha bowl combo?

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Anyone spend their day dreaming about what they’

Anyone spend their day dreaming about what they’ll have for lunch or dinner? My goal is to create meals that you’ll be looking forward to all day! These Mediterranean Swiss chard and sun dried tomato quinoa patties over romesco sauce are a meal you’ll crave all👏🏻day👏🏻long!

We make the quinoa on our prep day so we have it to make buddha bowls for lunches. I like to go ahead and make the quinoa patties ahead of time while I’m at it because I know I won’t have the energy at the end of a long work day.

Then, when meal time comes, I can quickly roast the asparagus in the oven while the quinoa patties fry up in a skillet. BOOM! Another dinner that’s ready in 10 min and devoured just as quickly. 🙌 This means more time for an after dinner park or bike session to enjoy the beautiful weather this week! ☀️

Let me know below if you’d like the link to make this creamy and vibrant romesco sauce that will add a punch of flavor to any dish! 💥

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Time for a new meal plan! 🍾This spring inspired

Time for a new meal plan! 🍾This spring inspired menu was so light, easy and deliciously satisfying. You can click the link in my bio for the full breakdown on how I attacked batch cooking all these ingredients. And if there’s a dish that sparks your interest, you can always just skip ahead specifically to that recipe.

Moving forward, I’ll be making a more conscious effort to highlight seasonal produce in my meal plans. After all, not only are they more nutrient dense, flavorful and affordable, they are better for the environment too.

So for this plan, I decided to highlight Swiss chard! 🥬 Not only is it packed full of vitamins K, C and A but it has a hearty texture, mild flavor, vibrant and colorful stems, and is wonderfully versatile! For this meal plan we use the Swiss chard in:
-Swiss chard, prosciutto and feta egg bites
-Swiss chard and sun dried tomato quinoa cakes
-Swiss chard, white bean and sausage soup

I essentially make one big batch of sautéed chard and use one cup for the egg bites, one cup for the quinoa cakes and the rest to build the soup. One prepped ingredient becomes the base for three tasty meals. Remember, this is all about cooking smarter and not harder! 💪 I intentionally don’t use it in *every single meal* because you want to be excited about seasonal produce, not burnt out by over doing it.

These are the ingredients we will prep for this plan:
-quinoa
-beets
-romesco sauce
-roasted carrots
-crispy tofu
-pickled veggies (carrot, cucumber, red onion, and daikon)
-sauteed Swiss chard

Check out my stories to see how these ingredients came together to make 1 breakfast, 2 lunches, and 4 dinners for the week! 🙌. I’ll be sharing each of those meals as the week goes on.

In the meantime, I challenge you to pick a seasonal ingredient yourself to weave into at least three dishes you’ll make this week. Share with me below, what will it be? 🤔👇

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This roasted tomatillo salsa verde is such a good

This roasted tomatillo salsa verde is such a good addition to your warm weather snack rotation if you love chips and salsa as much as I do!

I’ll be posting a how-to video with the recipe later this week so you can consider this a sneak peak. Be warned, it makes a huge batch! I like to take some and use it to make shredded chicken verde for tacos or enchiladas, so delish!

For the last meal plan, I drizzled this tomatillo salsa verde over breakfast burritos and southwestern cauliflower rice bowls.

So while you wait for the full recipe to drop, tell me: Are you team red salsa or green salsa?

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Happy Monday! I hope y’all had a great Easter! T

Happy Monday! I hope y’all had a great Easter! This week I’ll be staying fueled for lunch thanks to these lentil bowls with roasted potatoes, green beans, hard boiled eggs and some crumbled bacon.

For these lentil bowls I love a good balsamic dressing with a touch of honey to drizzle on top. A sprinkle of fresh herbs like dill, parsley or chives will help bring this lunch to life.

Simple, nourishing, fresh and hearty, this bowl delivers!

Curious, what was your favorite dish out of last week’s meal prep plan I posted? I love hearing your thoughts! 👇🙏

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Meal Prep Tip! Take one ingredient and prepare it

Meal Prep Tip! Take one ingredient and prepare it two separate ways. Or as I like to call it, cooking smarter not harder.💪

For example that could mean taking a sweet potato and roasting half and spiraling the other half. In this instance, I made a double batch of cauliflower rice and then split it into two.

For the first half, I folded in lemon zest and garlic and served that with yesterday’s pistachio crusted salmon. For the other half, I mixed in lime zest and fresh cilantro. That become the base for this burrito bowl. I topped it with some of our prepped black beans, a dynamite corn and red pepper mix, roasted tomatillo salsa, leftover shredded chicken, bright cherry tomatoes and creamy chunks of avocado. 🥑🍅🌽🌶

I’ll take cilantro lime cauliflower rice over plain ol white rice any day of the week! Especially when it’s topped with all this deliciousness. Do you agree? Washed down with a bubbly Topo Chico and I’m one happy girl! For example that could mean taking a sweet potato and roasting half and spiraling the other half. In this instance, I made a double batch of cauliflower rice and then split it into two.

For the first half, I folded in lemon zest and garlic and served that with yesterday’s pistachio crusted salmon. For the other half, I mixed in lime zest and fresh cilantro. That become the base for this burrito bowl. I topped it with some of our prepped black beans, a dynamite corn and red pepper mix, roasted tomatillo salsa, leftover shredded chicken, bright cherry tomatoes and creamy chunks of avocado.

I’ll take cilantro lime cauliflower rice over plain ol white rice in my burrito bowl any day of the week! Especially when it’s topped with all this deliciousness. Do you agree? Washed down with a bubbly Topo Chico and I’m one happy girl!

What’s an ingredient you would prep two ways?

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Winner winner salmon dinner! This might’ve been

Winner winner salmon dinner! This might’ve been my favorite meal of the week! The pistachio pesto salmon from @thewholecook paired with lemony cauliflower rice and garlic green beans was the perfect marriage of flavors.

I prepped a batch of cauliflower rice on Sunday and took half of it and blended in lemon zest and a clove of garlic to amp up the flavor. Since the green beans were blanched ahead of time all I had to do was warm them up in a skillet with some more garlic and sea salt while the salmon baked in the oven.

Salmon is something I prefer to cook fresh the day I’m going to eat it, not only for optimal freshness but because it cooks so quickly it’s not a huge timesaver to make it ahead of time. Also, if I know I’m going to be reheating it to eat it warm, I don’t want it to be overcooked and get dried out. The only time I’ll make it ahead in advance is if I know I’ll be eating it cold on something like a salmon poké bowl.

All in all, because of the items that were prepped in advance, this meal came together in about eight minutes but felt like something truly special. I’m definitely going to be making this over and over again throughout the a spring and summer!

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Fair warning: you’re gonna see a lot of breakfas

Fair warning: you’re gonna see a lot of breakfast burritos on this account. 🌯 Not that I need to have an excuse for serving up these delicious wraps but there is a bit of a backstory there.

In 2011 we opened a cafe and these breakfast burritos are what put us on the map. They were stuffed with real ingredients and grilled to perfection on a panini press for a crunchy exterior. Making these burritos takes me back to those days!

We made a homemade tomatillo salsa that we served alongside the burritos so I made sure to include that in this week’s meal plan. That recipe will be coming atcha later this week!

For now, enjoy this tasty and filling vegetarian black bean, spinach and potato breakfast burrito! 🙌

Are you team veggie burrito or would you add bacon or chorizo? 🥓

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