Day 3

The morning was a little hairy. It doesn't seem to matter if I wake up 45 minutes before scheduled departure or an hour and 45 minutes before...I"m always running late during the week. This is why I try and do as much as I can to prepare the night before.

Last night I prepared our salads. I took out our pre-packed lettuce and took stock of what I had left in the fridge. I had defrosted a little chicken, so I tossed that on the George Foreman. That took like 7 minutes but I had that cooking while I was putting everything else together. I cut up the other half of my cucumber, divided that into 2 containers, peeled 2 hard boiled eggs, removed the yolk and cut one up for each container, cut up 2 roma tomatoes and put one in each, put some slivered almonds into a mini container so they wouldn't get mushy and waited for the chicken to cool so I could put that in too. Here's the 1/2 way completed salad sans chicken and dressing. I put the dressing in a mini container as well so hubby wouldn't have to carry an entire bottle back and forth.

I also packed him a snack baggie of carrots, one serving of yogurt covered pretzels and some fresh strawberries. For breakfast, he ate a banana and a cliff bar

For my snacks, I went with the 1 serving of Triscuts and cheese again, carrots, and strawberries. My breakfast today was another green smoothie. I thought it tasted good again, but a little watery. I wonder what it would taste like with a little nonfat plain yogurt??

Last night I also pulled out the crock pot. Wednesdays and Thursdays going forward WILL be crock pot meals or something like we had last night that can happen really quickly. Once I pulled the crockpot, for this chicken chili recipe that I got from Pinterest, I pulled the ingredients

I guess I forgot to put the taco seasoning packet in there... As you can see I have the chopped onion in a bag that I chopped while prepping the broccoli/onion recipe. And the chicken is in the fridge....where it should be...not contaminating the air with it's rawness. I'm going to make cornbread to go with it. We have sour cream and cheese if needed also. I'm not sure of the calorie content, but I do know that I'm glad I didn't make all 5 days of packed lettuce for salads for me because there is going to be A LOT left over!