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Eating plan for 7 days, healthy
Believe it, or not, it is already the beginning of a new month, which means it’s time for our monthly week-long clean eating challenge. A time when we forget our … Read more
Believe it, or not, it is already the beginning of a new month, which means it’s time for our monthly week-long clean eating challenge. A time when we forget our excuses and follow a 7-day healthy eating plan to have more energy, feel better and maintain a healthy body, even when getting in 5,000 steps a day is more difficult than asking a stranger to cook you a meal and deliver it to your house. No slip-ups, no cheat meals, just getting back on track with eating healthy and enjoying simple and healthy meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The recipes in this clean eating meal plan are budget-friendly, simple to meal prep and great if you’re new to eating healthy.
Bread. The thing we all have on our minds right now. Somehow over the last few weeks, we forgot about the keto diet and gluten sensitivity and started looking for bread recipes. Surprise. We're still in the game, suckers!
The first thing our dad, who has diabetes, instructed us to do when this whole thing exploded, was to buy sugar and flour. We mentioned we could also buy beans and lentils. Well, if you want to. Thanks, for this eternal wisdom, dad. We're not gonna get started on how that whole conversation continued. It’s like talking to a wall, who you love and respect, who also talks back to you.
Our New Daily Routine
Also fun, our sleeping and eating habits have been all over the place. Here’s a short daily routine you can feel free to copy to live your best life right now.
- Wake up at 7-8 am, take our vitamin D
- look at the news
- pretend to do a 10-minute Youtube yoga video and finish halfway through
- stare at our phone some more
- maybe change from our pajamas into sweatpants
- “work”
- take a nap at around 4-6 pm
- cook and eat
- stay up until 2 am.
We've been making bread and sandwiches for most of our meals. Our dinner at midnight yesterday consisted of pizza that we had with a salad on the side. Scientific research has shown these cancel each other out and you end up in caloric deficit.
Healthy Meal Plan With Simple Foods
To be honest, we didn’t intend to be doing a healthy eating plan for this month, but we realized we need structure more than ever now. Myself, we need structure and we need a meal plan because those bread eating and sitting marathons are not going to turn us into a gymnast, mkay?
Can you imagine all the athletes letting themselves go and coming back to Olympia or Euro 2021 with muffin tops and double chins? We just did. 5 min in, out of breath and ready for a sandwich break.
So this healthy eating plan is solid for beginners, as the recipes are quite simple and fast to make. Everything is within the 30-minute range, one pan or one bowl will do and the recipes are great for eating healthy on the budget. You also get to use some of the non-perishables that we all have at home now.
Okay, now we didn’t want this meal plan to include too many ingredients, but we did want it to include some fresh produce as well. If you don’t have fresh produce – use frozen vegetables or fruit and work with whatever you have.
Meal Plan Recipes
Breakfast
Healthy Banana Oatmeal Pancakes
Lunch & Dinner
Healthy Chickpea and Tuna Bowls
15-Minute Garlic Shrimp In Tomato Sauce
Quinoa Fried Rice
7-Day Healthy Eating Plan
Day 1:
Day 2:
Day 3:
- 10-Minute Home-cooked Granola (make ahead) with yogurt of choice and fruit or Overnight Oats
- 20-Minute Bean Soup (leftovers)
- 15-MinuteGarlic Shrimp In Tomato Sauce
Day 4:
- Healthy Banana Bread
- Healthy Lentil Wraps 3.0. (leftovers)
- Healthy Chickpea and Tuna Bowls
Day 5:
- 10-Minute Home-cooked Granola with yogurt of choice and fruit or Overnight Oats
- Healthy Chickpea and Tuna Bowls (leftovers)
- Quinoa Fried Rice
Day 6:
- Healthy Banana Oatmeal Pancakes
- Quinoa Fried Rice
- Healthy Lentil Wraps 3.0.
Day 7:
- Healthy Banana Oatmeal Pancakes
- Healthy Lentil Wraps 3.0. (leftovers)
- 15-MinuteGarlic Shrimp In Tomato Sauce
Snacks
We've been making these no bake cookies a lot lately and intend to keep making them as we find our chocolate cravings are intense right now.
Healthy tropical green smoothie
We also recommend eating the one or the other fresh vegetable or fruit get your daily dose of vitamin C. You can make this green smoothie or don’t prepare anything and snack on berries, oranges and peppers (can’t say we've ever done that, but we've seen people actually eat bell peppers at uni – they seemed to like it and you cover most of your vitamin C needs with 1/2 bell pepper).
Okay, time to get into those sweatpants now and then for the afternoon nap, don’t want to disrupt the schedule too much, right?
