What You Will Need For This Recipe:

Chicken

Garlic Powder

Italian seasoning 

Olive oil 

Salt & pepper 

Brussels sprouts 

Gluten free pasta 

Feta

Pesto

Other Healthy Recipes To Make:

Paleo & Gluten Free Burger Bowls

These paleo and gluten free burger bowls are another healthy 15 minute lunch or dinner for you! With a homemade burger sauce, you can’t go wrong with this recipe! I love putting this burger sauce on not only these paleo and gluten free burger bowls but also regular burgers.

Air Fryer Sriracha Honey Salmon

One of my favorite recipes and it only takes 15 minutes to make! I absolutely love this air fryer with honey sriracha salmon. It is perfect paired with cauliflower rice or regular rice. It has an avocado pineapple salsa on top that is versatile so save that recipe to use on a bunch of other recipes this summer! You will want to make this salmon once a week. Not only is it so tasty, you don’t have to turn on your oven.

Spicy Chickpea Salad

This Greek inspired spicy chickpea salad is the easiest healthy meal! Ready in less than 10 minutes plus it requires no cooking and no reheating. Lots of veggies and protein in this meal! I love to make this for lunch because it’s so low maintenance.

Grilled Chicken Pesto Pasta

This Grilled Chicken Pesto Pasta is delicious & the perfect way to use any chicken you’re making on the grill. You can even use leftover chicken & make this exact same dish but as a pasta salad.

Prep Time

5 Minutes

Cook Time

15 Minutes

Serves

4

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Ingredients

2 chicken breasts 

1 1/2 tsp garlic powder 

1 tsp Italian seasoning 

1 tbsp olive oil 

Salt & pepper to taste 

1 lb Brussels sprouts 

12 ounce gluten free pasta of choice 

1/2 cup cheese of choice (I love feta so I went with that!) 

1/3 cup pesto

Method

1) Cook the pasta according to package instructions. 

While the pasta is cooking , preheat your grill or grill pan to medium-high heat.

Brush the chicken with olive oil & then season with the garlic, Italian seasoning, & salt and pepper. Place the chicken on the grill or grill pan for about 4-6 minutes then flip & cook for another 4-6 minutes until the internal heat is 165F 

Cut the Brussels sprouts into halves. 

Add 1 tbsp of olive oil to them. You can either wrap them in aluminum foil & grill for 10 minutes. Or heat a skillet over medium heat & sauté them for 8-10 minutes. Either method works! The smaller you cut them, the faster they cook! 

Add the chopped chicken, cooked pasta, & cooked Brussels sprouts to a large bowl. Add in the pesto &  cheese. Season with salt and pepper and toss everything together until coated. 

Serve warm or cold.

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Meal Prep Info:

So we have two people in our house: myself and my husband. Normally, I make 2 meals for breakfasts/snacks and 2 meals lunches/dinners. I don’t make enough just on Sunday to have 15 x 2 meals for each of us (breakfast, lunch, dinner every day). I love cooking dinner in the evenings so normally I’ll still make dinner at night.

This is just what works for us! I normally make enough for each of us to have 3 breakfasts and 5 lunches or dinners. You can adjust these meals however you want to fit your needs! I like making toast or yogurt bowls some mornings so I don’t need 5 breakfasts prepped for myself.

Breakfast #1:

Blueberry Muffin Overnight Oatmeal

I made this recipe x3. It takes hardly any extra time to double it! On the other mornings, I would eat something simple like a yogurt bowl or toast. I ate the oatmeal MWF so I didn’t get bored. You can also switch up the toppings so you have different flavors throughout the week!

Breakfast/Snack #2:

Blueberry Mini Muffins

These only take 15 minutes to bake and don’t require a ton of ingredients! The perfect thing to meal prep if you want a healthy snack or breakfast on hand. I made these for Eli and then he’d either take them on the go or eat them with yogurt and peanut butter!

Lunch/Dinner #1:

Instant Pot Buffalo Chicken Soup

Making a recipe in the instant pot is so easy which is why I love doing it for meal prep! I don’t want to be making a bunch of complicated things- that makes me less motivated to meal prep. Plus soup always reheats well and you can freeze extras!

Lunch/Dinner #2:

Maple Chipotle Sheet Pan Meal

This meal takes a little more effort than the buffalo chicken soup but you still don’t have a ton of dishes which is nice! I make the muffins first so then this sheet pan meal. It’s easier to get the oven hotter than to wait for it to cool down.

How I Meal Prepped These:

So I try to do 1 no bake, 1 stovetop/instant pot meal, and 1-2 oven things. I don’t want everything made in the oven because that just complicates things a lot!

I meal prepped in this order: muffins first, then instant pot, then sheet pan, and finally the no bake oats. Here’s why:

The muffins need to be cooked at a lower temp than the sheet pan meal so I didn’t want to have to wait for the oven to cool down before I could make the muffins.

Then while to muffins cooked and cooled, I had enough time to get the soup all set up!

Then the soup was able to cook while I got the sheet pan dinner ready to go.

Finally, while the sheet pan meal was cooking I was able to make my overnight oats.

This takes about 2 hours total to do. But it sets Eli and I both up for a week full of healthy meals and saves us money in the long run!

I hope this was helpful! Let me know if you meal prep any of these meals!

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