Night before the cleanse meal prep

Meal prepping time!!!!! I love to prep and have everything ready to go. I have my fiber drinks layed out ready for days 1-3... Not looking forward to the sawdust taste. Just remember mix it and suck it down with a straw. I started late but How I Met Your Mother ended tonight and I'm so sad. It's one of the shows The Hubby and I have always watched together. So here is 

meal prepping for a few days. 

Breakfast muffins with eggs and spinach 

Spinach and cheery tomatoes sautéed 

                        Boiled eggs! 

                 Fruit infused water! 

Baked lemon chicken with capers and whole wheat pasta.

Baked chicken with sautéed spinach, garlic and cherry tomatoes. 

                           Nom

My poor fridge is packed! No room for anything else. This meal prep I stepped outside if the box and tried new things besides turkey spaghetti. 

My veggie noodle maker will be here tomorrow. I bought egg plant, zucchini, yellow squash, beets and carrots for clean veggie noodles. Pretty excited! 

Meal prepping has worm me out! It's already midnight and I should have been in bed. 

Xoxo,

Mrs. Rogers

Almond cranberry salad, chicken breast, sautéed spinach and cherry tomatoes. And a sweet potato. This is going to be soooooo good!!! 

Zucchini Casserole

I know y'all have been waiting for this because I've not stop talking about it. Well it's low carb, 160 calories per serving and delish!!! I think it's better heated up. I used it as meal prep and it made 6 servings. I did however eat it for lunch and dinner some days... Haha it's that good! 

I will make a confession... I do NOT like onions... I'm weird. And I know cooking with them gives food sooooooooo much flavor!! WHATEVER!!! I can't stand them! Blah! Lol... Onion hater right here! 

Feel free to keep them in the recipe though if you're a fan. I did however add extra garlic!!! Yuuuuum! 

Not only will y'all get the direct link for food.com for the recipe y'all are going to get an OVERLOAD of pictures from me!!! You know the usual... :) But this time I tried taking step by step for the people like me that like to see visual recipes... Hopefully I'm not the only one that's like that... Lol! 

When I went to the store for the ingredients (Food City) the local farms produce was in the store which was a bonus! $.99 per pound for zucchini!!! The yellow squash was the same price and that's what the online recipe calls for but they didn't look as good as the zucchini. And I really like it over yellow squash anyways. 

Once home I started making the casserole first thing because it takes 40 minutes to bake. And I wanted it for lunch the next day and I wasn't going to eat it after 9:00 anyways. 

This is very simple and yummy! Hope y'all enjoy!!!

• 1lb of zucchini- 3-4 

• 4 garlic gloves- minced 

• 1 egg

• 1/2 cup of mayo- I used light

• 1 cup of shredded cheese ( I useded Colby/ jack)

• salt to taste! I used kosher salt

• little bit of pepper 

• half a chopped onion (I didn't use this)

• pre heat oven at 350 degrees 

• chop zucchini in little slices and place in a large pot with about 4 cups of water or enough to slightly cover your your zucchini. Then put your garlic in the same pot with the zucchini. Let boil and steam the veggies! (This will also be the time when you put the chopped onion in with the zucchini and garlic to steam) 

• in the food processor add the mayo, 1 eggs and 1/2 cup of cheese. And mix until creamy.

•Once you have steamed your zucchini pour out into a colander to drain the water.

• option 1- (which is my favorite)  instead of putting the zucchini in the food processor I like to add the whole sliced pieces in the casserole dish. I then spread the cheese, mayo and egg mixture on top like a goopy spread. Then I sprinkle the cheese on top!!!! This is the best way because I like the whole pieces of zucchini. :)

•option 2 scrape everything in the food processor making sure I get all the garlic too! 

• blend that yummy goodness all together until no chunks. 

• pour into casserole dish and sprinkle the rest of the cheese on top. 

• bake for 40 minutes 

I let it cool then cut into portions for meal prep. It's delish and even better heated up. 

Enjoy!!!! 

      I might have added more cheese...

                  So damn good!!

Lets Go Shopping!

What all do you buy to make your smoothies? How much do you buy? Gosh fruit is expensive how do you afford all you buy? Those are some of the questions y'all ask when it comes to my smoothies. 

Well I'm a huge bargain shopper! It's sad really... I sometimes will visit different store to stock up because of the deals. 

Store I shop at in Knoxville, TN

• Walmart

• Kroger

• Food City

• Costco

• Aldi 

I took my first trip to Aldi yesterday and racked up. I've heard that place is hit it miss when it comes to fruit so I decided to stop in since I already near there. PetSmart was the first stop of my journey! Dog food and little green bones. Gotta feed the fur babies too! 

I brought a cooler with me because I was on a mission yesterday. It's almost like a game! I love to get great deals and stretch that dolla! 

Aldi- put a quarter in the buggy and off you go! I always forget you have to bring your own bags... Thank goodness I had our lovey funeral home bags we give families... (Typical cotton grocery store bag) So I rocked my mortuary bags while buying fruit. 

Aldi is weird... I had one place to stop and that was the produce. I rolled past the dairy and noticed Greek yogurt for $.85 and they had blueberry and strawberry! Score!! 4 of each saving me $.15 cents compared to normal stores! 

Aldi produce section purchases

•Watermelon- $2.99

• Cantaloupe- $.99

• Bananas- $.44 a lb. (they were green) :)

• 3 cartons of blueberries- $1.50 each

• 2 cartons of strawberries- $.99 each

• 5 pack of kiwis- $1.00

• 2 cartons of blackberries- $.99 each

• 5 Peaches- $1.00

I pretty much racked up!! And I got lucky by going on a day when everything was stocked and fresh. 

Next stop... Kroger! I love visiting the newer one in Knoxville!! It's like fruit heaven! They even sell furniture there. Yesterday happened to be the 1 year anniversary since opening and it was packed! When I walked in they were giving away cake and prizes and it was very overwhelming. Passed by the cake really fast and grabbed a mini buggy knowing I would t need that much there. 

Kroger Purchases

• 5 navel oranges

•4 limes

•Justins Maple Almond Butter

• Carving Boards Chicken- 2 for $6 

• Spinach- they had there bags of spinach for BOGO! 2 for $5 

I love Kroger! Gosh I could spend all day in there! They have a great organic/ healthy section too!! My favorite Luna Bars are $1 each there and I stocked up last week. 

Sorry for the long shopping details but if I'm reading this and I need help shopping for my smoothies I would like a lot of details... If it gets boring just skip over it all. ;)

A good shopping list to make for a good smoothie prep is what you all really want to hear... So here we go! Lets break it down so you can go to the store and make your dollar stretch and make a lot of smoothie bags to freeze. 

•The List•

• 3 Granny Smith Apples

• 2 Cartons of Strawberries

• 4 oranges

• 3 limes

• 2 pears

• 1 bag of frozen raspberries

• 6 bananas

• 1 bag of frozen blueberries or 2 cartons of fresh blueberries

• 1 bag of Green Grapes

• 2 bags of spinach or 1 large box of spinach

• 1 pineapple

• 4-6 peaches

• 1-2 mangos

* For the oranges and limes remember I squeeze them making juice for my ice cube trays. That many will probably make 2-3 trays depending on how much juice you get. (Margarita Smoothie) 

All that yummy goodness will make you at least 20 baggies for prepping. Depending on how much you put in each bag depends on how many bags you can make. Want to make your strawberries go farther?? Cut them up!! 

Get your shopping on and prep away y'all! :) 

        Going to freeze these bad boy!!! 

Stocking Up

The fella and I went to the store today and I spent most of my time in produce! I stocked up on items to freeze for the week. Meal prep is the key! I am not a morning person so I need to have something quick and easy. Smoothies! I used to have Chick Fil-A for breakfast a lot of mornings before work... Crazy! So much money too and those damn chicken minis! I'd always order a four count with a large sweet tea. No wonder I felt like crap all the time and I blew up in weight even more! 

I bought kale this time. I've been meaning to buy some but honestly I was afraid of the taste. I can't taste the spinach at all so I'm hoping its the same with kale. Fingers crossed for sure!  And I bought strawberry Greek yogurt for some extra flavor. Greek yogurt can be sour sometimes and too tart. But I love the creamy texture you get from it. 

Today's purchase

2 bundles of kale

1 large bag of spinach

2 strawberry cartons

1 pineapple

2 avocados 

We are talking super green smoothies this week!! I'm looking for a good protein powder to add. If anyone has suggestions let me know.