Food Prepping for the week

 

I usually do my food prep every other Sunday and I prep for 2 weeks of lunches. I sometimes will do 2 or 3 different meals and make a few of each, but this week I just made my favorite meal of turkey patty, sweet potato and mixed veggies.   I started out by gathering all of the ingredients:  5 sweet potatoes, 2 1/2 lbs of ground turkey, 1 bag of mixed veggies, salt, pepper, garlic powder and storage bowls w/lids. 

    

  
I started making the turkey patties by mixing ground turkey with salt, pepper, and garlic powder in a large mixing bowl.  This time I used 2 1/2 pounds of Jenny-O lean ground turkey.

  

Then I formed the turkey into 10 meatballs.  Each meatball will be used as a patty. 

  

 I cooked the patties in a large skillet using a little Pam cooking spray. It takes about 15 minutes or so turning them over once to cook on each side.
  

For the sweet potatoes, I covered them with plastic wrap and I baked in microwave oven using the potato setting.  I buy large organic sweet potatoes and cut them in half (lengthwise) after they cook.  So I used 5 potatoes for these 10 meals.

    

For the mixed veggies, I just use frozen ones and I just pour them into the storage containers and add a little salt and pepper.  
  

To finish the meals, I put a sweet potato half and turkey patty in with the veggies. I also seasoned the sweet potatoes with salt and pepper.

  
  

Then I added the lids and then put all of meals into the freezer to be used for my lunches for the next two weeks.
  
 

Each day I take one to work with me.  At lunch time, I unseal the lid, pop in microwave oven and heat on high for 3 1/2- 4 minutes.  It’s tasty, healthy and fast.

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