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Training and Martial Arts: Last Two Weeks Where Have I Been?

Hello Everyone,

I have been remiss in updating my blog. The last two weeks have been a doozy. Where have I been? Well I was sick, was a single parent for 5 days, and was starting my business.

Upper Respiratory Cold

The last two weeks I was fighting off an upper respiratory cold. It was so bad I was concerned it was Covid – 19. So I did what I was supposed to do and got tested.

I got the rapid test and that came back negative. I was biting my nails because while my husband, son, and myself are vaccinated fully, my daughter is still to young. So I was terrified that I would give it to her if I had contracted it. The PCR test came back negative as well. I was so relieved. However, the upper respiratory cold that is going around is terrible here. I was coughing, sneezing, running nose, stuffy, just all of the above, and I felt like absolute poop.

I listened to my body this time and just rested. No workouts, not training, no going anywhere, I did not want to spread this nasty cold around.

But I am back at Muay Thai training tonight. Yay!

Yesterday, Monday 10/26/2021 was the first day back to training that I did.

Single Parent

I say this every time it happens but I will say it again. My hat and heart goes out to you my friends that are single parents. It is not easy, and I certainly miss the tag teammate I have in my husband.

Anyway, my husband has to go on a business trip at least once a year. (Last year was canceled because of a global pandemic) During that time that he is away I am teacher, mom, cook, chauffeur, moderator, dad, task master, house cleaner, handy woman, and face of the family. When my partner is here, I can offload some of that.

I had to do all this while I was still recovering from a terrible cold. So no feeling pitiful for me and just laying there like a lump on a log.

I am feel much better still a bit frogy in the throat but much, much better.

Starting my business

I finally opened up my shop. For that I have many hats, as most people know when they run their own businesses. I am the creator, fabricator/work horse, photographer, social media manager, pr spinner, finance, r&d department, and marketing manager.

So while I was sick unable to train, I decided to do a hard push on my store. It is an etsy store, and you can find it here. HTTPS://sharpcupcakestudio.etsy.com

I won’t go in to much detail about it here, but suffice to say it is where I will put my art and my creations. If you wanna check it out feel free.

Eating

While I was sick I was not tracking anything. I was just trying to keep my head above water. With being sick, and the single parent week it was hard. I know I did not eat enough protein. Hell some days I was lucky to just eat a yogurt cup and some fruit.

I fed the kiddos, and made sure they had everything they needed, but I just went with the flow for me.

I have not seen any adverse effects yet. I am sure if I kept up not focusing on getting protein and not eating there will be, but I am going back to my routine, now that I can breath and I have my partner back.

Anyway that is it for me. We had a 19 year anniversary that we were able to celebrate when he got back home, and everyone is happy and healthy on my watch so I am going to count the last two weeks as a win.

Thanks for reading. I just wanted to pop in and update you/blog on my goings on. I hope you have a great week. If you liked my blog please hit the like button, if you wanna keep up with my crazy training and life please subscribe, if you wanna comment and leave me a message I would love to read them.

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Martial Arts and Training: Teaching martial arts is… fun, rewarding, hard, and so educational

Hello beautiful people, I had the awesome chance to teach an entire class last week. I will be able to teach another few classes for this month.

Teaching martial arts is… fun, hard and so educational.

Let me back up a little bit. I am not new to teaching. I taught B&P (Baking and Pastry) and Cake decorating for the public school system for 13 years. I went to school and got a degree in the the things I was teaching. Yes there is still trepidation the first couple of times you get up and teach in front of a class. However, this being my profession, and what I taught it faded after the first year and then teaching became easier.

However, with martial arts, I have only been studying it for 3+ years. My brain asks what do I know. How much do I know to be able to teach.

Teaching can be hard:

So I made a plan on what I wanted to teach. Screwed up my courage, and hoped I did not fall on my face when I was demonstrating the strikes/skills I wanted to. It was hard in that I kept telling myself remember the basics and make sure you explain why you are doing something. They may not see the little nuances.

Teaching is very educational:

Teaching my fellow trainees is so educational. The biggest thing that I learned is that I know more than I think I do. I taught about the fundamentals of the Thai round house kick. The kicker is when some students asked questions I was able to answer them. When they wondered why we did it the way we do I was able to answer them. I was able to go around watch what they were doing and see the small tweaks they needed to do. This is different then my own training. In which I just train, and try to make my skills better. I sometimes don’t see what I need to do to change my own movements. I sometimes can’t see what I can need to do to fix my strikes even when I record it and look back. I can see it in my fellow students.

Teaching others also cements what you know. It does this because you have to figure out how to explain what you know to your students. They may not see/understand what you are saying/showing the way you are showing it. So you have to know the what, why, and how of what you are showing so that you can change the way you are saying it.

Teaching is fun:

Teaching was so much fun this week. I really enjoyed teaching people cake decorating and pastry arts. I find I love teaching martial arts. It is so rewarding to see that light bulb, or light go on behind peoples eyes. I found it rewarding when teaching pastry. I find the same reward when teaching martial arts. I also love to see people having a good time. It is rewarding to see people fall in love the martial art that I love so much.

I have the chance to teach again this month and part of next month. I think I will learn so much. I am excited.

The best thing about teaching is everyone coming up and telling me how much I helped them. They mentioned how much fun they had in class. That is in itself rewarding.

Schedule: Week of Training

  1. Monday 8/30/2021: HIIT Sprint Run, and Weightlifting 1 hour
  2. Tuesday 8/31/2021: 1 hour of Muay Thai Training
  3. Wednesday 9/01/2021: scheduled rest day
  4. Thursday 9/02/2021: 1 hour of Muay Thai Training
  5. Friday 9/03/2021: scheduled rest day
  6. Saturday 9/04/2021: Off holiday
  7. Sunday 9/05/2021: unscheduled but needed rest day

My Martial Art Focus:

  1. Working my distance management and learning my distance
  2. Stay light on my feet
  3. Teaching fellow students

Drills for this week: the lesson I taught (focus on pivot and hip placement/turnover)

1) jump rope
2) isolated hip turn partner drills ( partner holds your foot and you balance pivot the foot and turn your hip)
3) jab, rear kick / jab, lead kick
4) jab, cross, rear kick / jab, cross, lead kick
5) jab, cross, hook, rear kick/ jab, cross, hook lead kick
6) pop the leather – shield and response kick drill


Cardio Run / Weight Lifting: Week one 3 day split finding that 3 days is gonna be more like two days for the foreseeable future due to scheduling.

Weightlifting: focus – back biceps and abs

Cardio Run: focus – sprinting HIIT

HIIT:

1) warm up – 200 meter sprint and stretching
2) 4x 200 meter sprints
3) 30 x jump squats
4) 200 meter sprint
5) 20 x push ups
6) 200 meter sprint

Weightlifting Back Biceps and Abs

1) standing barbell row- reps – 15, 15, 10, 10, 10

Superset
2) pat pull down wide grip – reps -12, 12, 12
3) cable rope face pull – reps – 12, 12, 12

4) barbell rack pull – reps- 10, 10, 10

5) seated cable rows – reps – 15, 15, 15

6) dumbbell standing double arm bicep curl- rep- 12, 12, 12

7) dumbbell biceps spider curl – reps – 12, 12, 12

Superset
8 ) half v-ups with leg extensions – 30 seconds
9) sit ups into twists – 30 seconds
10) kettle bell sit ups – 30 seconds
11) half v-ups with leg extensions – 30 seconds
12) sit ups into twists – 30 seconds
13) kettle bell sit ups – 30 seconds
14) half v-ups with leg extensions – 30 seconds
15) sit ups into twists – 30 seconds
16) kettle bell sit ups – 30 secondsd

Nutrition

  1. Maintenance week for me.
  2. Lets just face it. This week I just did not try to much. I did not eat well, I did not eat on time. I did not eat enough. I feel back into my old ways. Gonna make it better this coming week.
MACRO AVERAGES
 Day 1Day 2Day 3Day 4Day 5Day 6Day 7AverageGoalDifference
Protein9438798553688271.2857143190118.7142857
Carbs17731169212201109192155.8571431604.142857143
Fat8455919839659675.428571467-8.428571429
           
Calories1840771181120701367129319601587.428572003415.5714286

Well that is it for this last week. I did terribly on making sure I ate enough, and ate what I needed to. I am working on making sure I meal prep for this week. I had a great week and I got to teach my fellow teammates. I get a chance again coming up. How was your week? Did you eat well this week? Did you do what you needed to do?

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Martial Arts and Training: Vacation, Deloading Week, and Kali/Silat/JKD seminar

week of 8/9/2021

One more rotation around the sun. I made it one more rotation around the sun. Yay!

So this is not going to be my usual training post, but maybe a more abbreviated post that is going to jump around to three main things that happened during this last week.

It just so happens that I finished an 8 week Weight Lifting program and the week we went on vacation was a deloading week.

Normally I would workout and train through my vacation because I believe in keeping up my schedule but I also have learned that I need to take these deloading weeks off. So this post is going to be different than my other posts. Just because I don’t have a lot of

So what did I do for my natal day? I went to the beach. My happy place.

Deloading/Detraining week:

Deloading means – stopping regular training and letting your body rest. You still want to stay active, just not do any hard training.

I did not work out but I did go boogie boarding with my kiddos at the beach. I did go walking around a state park with my family. I did climb a huge look out tower with my kids and we did have a blast just enjoying each others company.

Nutrition:

I did not track my food intake. I gave myself a break from the tracking and I wanted to just focus on enjoying the moments. I did try to make sure I made smart decisions on my food, but I did not restrict myself either.

The number on the scale did not go up or down but stayed steady.

Kali/Silat/JKD Seminar with Sifu Mike Mathews:

The training I did end up doing was a two day 3 hour per day seminar. We learned Kali drills/strikes, Silat drills/strikes, and Jeet Kune Do drills/strikes.

I learned so much. I felt like my brain was a sponge. I don’t know if it was cause I took the week off for vacation and I was able to relax. Maybe it was because I took the week off and let my body reset. Quite possibly it was because I did both at the same time.

I was able to watch Sifu Mathews work and watch how his hands worked, how his body moved and able to apply it to my techniques. Am I saying I am an expert? Nope not in the least. I will never stop learning, but I was able to as I said absorb the information. I felt like everything was clicking. I was even able to help my fellow students understand a Kali stick and elbow lock.

We covered some really cool things:

3 inch punch set up
  1. Jeet Kune Do One Inch Punch, The Three Inch Punch, and the 6 Inch Punch.
  2. Kali we worked on Hubud, with a stick and empty hand. Some new techniques I had not seen before, and I brought intent.
  3. We worked the 15 wrist locks flow.
  4. We worked the JKD wedge and knife hand flow
  5. We worked Silat’s, Basset Dalam, Sapu Luar, and the Sayaw Dance or Knife 12 disarms

So that was my last week. We were able to go to my favorite place… the beach. I was able to relax, read, and spend time with the family. We had the honor to be able to attend a seminar with Sifu Mike Mathews. I was able to learn and hone my skills. I have so much to practice now and pages of notes that I took.

Yes I did have cake! H my partner got me a fantastic mango mousse cake for my birthday. Look how pretty it is. It was light and fluffy. It was delicious, satisfying, and well balanced.

Future:

  1. I have already chosen my new Weight Lifting eight week program.
  2. I am back on track for eating, tracking my nutrients, and getting my training in for Martial Arts and for my Weight Lifting.
  3. I plan on trying to work around my hormones, and working with my body and not against it.

How did your week go? Mine went great. I had the best birthday week ever.

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Berry Walnut Quinoa Breakfast Cereal

I have been looking for a breakfast. Breakfast cereal without oats that I liked. It seems oats and I don’t get along. My body hates them. So we adapt and change. Find what works for you and put away what does not.

I love this one… I found it in a book I am reading called Roar. I include the information for the book below. This is a healthy, delicious, vegan, contains good for you fats, and has some protein.

You can add your own toppings but I liked mine this way.

This can be made ahead of time and kept refrigerated for 4 to 5 days.

Anyway enough of the word salad here is the recipe.

Berry Walnut Quinoa Breakfast Cereal

Yield 4 servings

Ingredients:

  1. 1 cup of organic quinoa
  2. 1 cup of organic almond milk unsweetened
  3. 1 cup of water
    Toppings:
  4. 1/2 or 2g tsp chia seeds
  5. 1 tbs or 13g dried organic cranberries
  6. 1/3 cup or 56g frozen fruit
  7. 1/4 cup or 60g almond milk
  8. 1 tbs or 18g agave nectar
  9. 1 tbs or 4g raw walnuts
  10. 1/4 tsp of cinnamon or to taste
  11. Pinch of salt or to taste

Directions:

  1. Combine water, almond milk, and quinoa, bring to a boil.
  2. Cover, and turn heat down, to medium low and simmer for 15 minutes or until water has evaporated
  3. Let set for 5 minutes with head off.
  4. Portion out into 4 jars/containers, and add toppings.
  5. Mix, cap and let set in the fridge.

Nutritional information: For 1 serving of cereal

Calories 337, Fat 5.1 g, Fiber 7.4 g, Carbs 65.3 g, Sodium 75.1 mg, Protein 6.3 g

I hope you get a chance to try this out. I have been looking for ways to fuel my workouts, and to keep my body going. I found the base recipe out of a book call Roar by STacy T. Sims PhD. I so far love this book and it has helped me understand a great deal more about my hormones and training as a woman. I recommend picking it up.

I added chia seeds, extra liquid, altered the sugar source and amount, and altered the toppings.

Here is a link to the book I got on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/ROAR-Fitness-Physiology-Optimum-Performance/dp/1623366860

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Savory Salads with Fruit

I like veggies and salad. And while I am not a strict vegetarian any more… I still love veggies. Given the choice 9 times out of 10 I will reach for grilled veggies, a salad, fruit, you name it. So here are some salads I made. My family loves them and devours them. I hope you and your family loves them too.

Pear Walnut salad

This is a pear, walnut salad. I made rice and lemon pepper tilapia to go with it.

If you have have never had a savory salad with fruit in it? If you have not I really suggest you try it. The savory flavors and slight sweetness of the fruit are a great compliment.

This is a vegan, gluten free, dairy free salad. It is healthy nutritious and delicious. I hope you get a chance to try it.

Recipe for pear walnuts salad:

1) 8 cups baby greens
2) red onion sliced to taste
3) 1 Bartlett pear sliced
4) 2 or 1 cup baby cucumbers sliced
5) 1/4 cup toasted walnuts
6) lemon zest

Honey Lemon Soy dressing
1) 1 tbs honey
2) 1 tbs soy sauce/or aminos
3) 1/2 lemon juices about 1 tbs
4) salt and pepper to taste
5) 1 tbs Olive oil

Nutrition: yield 4 servings

582g calories, 33.8g fat, 14.4g fiber, 63.2g carbs, 777.3g sodium, 12.5g protein

Peach Balsamic Salad

Peach and Balsamic salad! Nom nom nom

Kids loved this salad, the first time they have had peaches in salad.

Salad:

  1. 2 medium peaches sliced
  2. red onion sliced
  3. 8 cups mixed baby greens

Balsamic dressing:
1) 2 tbs balsamic
2) 3/4 of tbs honey
3) 1/2 tbs mustard
4) 1/2 tbs olive oil
5) salt and pepper to taste

Whisk all ingredients together, then toss with salad.

Nutrition: yield 4 servings

343 calories, 15.6g fat, 9.4 fiber, 52.4 carbs, 920.3 sodium, 11.5 protein

Thank you for reading. I hope you liked these. If you get a chance to try it out let me know what you think.

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Protein Packed Overnight Oats with Cinnamon Apple and Cranberry

fancy pants over night oats with a bow

You see this picture… pretty huh? Who has time for that bow nonsense? I don’t! I am a busy woman. I generally make my oats and attach my reusable spoon with a produce rubber band I have recycled. Very much like this.

I use a rubber band

In order to make sure I eat on time. I have started back up making overnight oats. But I found a protein oat mix that simplifies things instead of having to add protein powder.

I based it of the base overnight oat recipe from (https://feelgoodfoodie.net/recipe/overnight-oats/) , but added some different ingredients. Like the protein oats.

This has protein, carbs, is vegetarian, can be vegan, and very tasty!

Here is an updated version of overnight oats the way I make it with more protein. Enough of the chatter on with the recipe:

Protein Packed Overnight Oats with Cinnamon Apples and Cranberries

yield 1 serving

Ingredients:

  1. 1/2 cup of protein oats
  2. 1/2 cup of milk of your choice, I use non dairy milk
  3. 1/4 cup of Skyr or Icelandic yogurt
  4. 1 tbs chia seeds or 10 grams
  5. 1 tbs of sweetener of choice, I use local honey
  6. sprinkle of cinnamon
  7. 1 tbs of probiotic dried cranberries
  8. 1/4 cup of water
  9. 6 grams or a hand full crushed Freeze dried cinnamon apples

Directions:

Add everything to the jar, or container, and stir really well. Cover and refrigerate overnight or for at least 2 hours.

Note:

  1. I add more water because I am using dried fruit and freeze dried fruit.
  2. You can add fresh fruit instead of the dried fruit
  3. You can add unsweetened cocoa powder
  4. You can even add chocolate chips

Calories and Nutrition Information:

calories 353, fat 7.1 g, fiber 9.5 g, carbs 55.5 g, sodium 74.4 g, protein 17.4 g

  • ingredients I used
  • almond milk
  • eating breakfast outside

Let me say this… yesterday was a bit of a bust. I ate within an hour after waking good. Then I ate at the next designated time also good, but then got super busy not good. So missed the 3rd and 4th eating time. Ended up not having a lunch type meal till 7 hours after. That is no bueno for me. Hey but I was able to eat at some of the times I planned out.

I hope you get a chance to try this out. I love it… I am weird and love that freeze dried apple reconstituted in water or milk taste. It reminds me of my childhood.

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Fuel Yourself During COVID- 19: Veggie and Cream Cheese Wrap

Here is a short quick post of a lunch I made that is so tasty. I took a page from an old well known sandwich. The cucumber and cream cheese tea sandwiches. But I wanted more veggies and substance to my sandwich.

This is a, healthy, low fat, low sodium, vegetarian meal, and can be made gluten free with gluten free wraps.

I added Salami to H’s wraps and so it can be made non vegetarian if you choose as well.

Yield 2 sandwiches

Ingredients:

  1. 1 wrap of your choosing ( I used Sun Dried Tomato Basil wraps)
  2. 1 carrot shaved (using a peeler)
  3. 1/2 cucumber sliced
  4. 1/2 bell pepper sliced into strips
  5. 2 tbs of cream cheese
  6. pickled onions to taste
  7. 3 Small leaves romaine lettuce

Directions:

  1. lay out the wrap, spread the cream cheese in a line on the wrap.
  2. shingle the cucumbers on the cream cheese
  3. add the rest of the veggies
  4. spread a small amount of cream cheese on the end of the wrap where it will overlap and touch the outer part of the wrap, and will stay shut.
  5. cut in half and enjoy

Stats: this is for one wrap without any cold cuts

Calories 341, Fat 11.6 g, Fiber 4 g, Carbs 49.5 g, Sodium 1016.5 mg, Protein 7.8 g

Today’s lunch was great. It was deeply satisfying and refreshing. I hope you get a chance to try this out. I enjoyed it, H enjoyed it, and my kids who ate some of mine enjoyed the sandwich.

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Fuel Yourself During COVID- 19: Protein Bowl with “Riced Cauliflower”

Don’t know what to call this meal other than a protein bowl.

So I had a bell pepper I needed to use, some ground turkey that need to be used, and I could not find riced cauliflower at my local store. Some of our shipping is being affected by Covid-19. I am not complaining. I am just stating the facts here in the part of the U.S.A. I live in.

I did not want to risk exposure by going to many different stores just to find it. So I had a wild hair, a idea that was tickling the back of my mind. I can’t find riced cauliflower, what if I take frozen cauliflower and put it in my blender. Can I get it to a riced consistency then? What will happen if I try it? At worst it is a weird texture but we can still eat it. What the heck.

So I did just that. I stuck two 12 oz bags of cauliflower in my blender and hit pulse. It was really loud and when I first opened the lid I thought well we have shaved cauliflower. It looked a lot like shaved ice on top of the blender. I chalked it up to a learning experience and continued on with the meal. After all I had to get dinner on the table.

I even poured it out on the cooked meat and it still looked like shaved cauliflower. But when I stirred it in to my surprise there it was it looked like riced cauliflower. It was a success. Yay!

So now if you cannot find riced cauliflower, you can buy frozen and pulse it in the blender it yourself. Buying pre-riced is more expensive than just buying frozen cauliflower.

I have also tried it the traditional way with fresh cauliflower and a box grater. That was not as fun, messy (it got everywhere), and not nearly as fast.

Enough of the gabbing here is the recipe. Full of protein, light on carbs, and light on fat.

Riced Cauliflower Protein Bowl

yield 4 servings

Ingredients:

  1. 1 bag of frozen cauliflower- riced in blender
  2. 1 lbs of ground turkey
  3. 1 to 2 yellow or any colored bell pepper- chopped
  4. 1 onion chopped
  5. Salt and pepper
  6. Vidalia Onion bulbs caramelized
  7. Multi colored quinoa – cooked per instructions on package
  8. 1 clove of garlic, or 2 tsp of granulated garlic

Directions:

  1. Get your quinoa started cooking. I add the onion top (the part you throw away) to the pot to add some flavor.
  2. Saute chopped onion, pepper, garlic. After they are softened add ground turkey.
  3. Using the blender or a food processor, rice your frozen cauliflower. Add that to your cooked meat mixture. Saute till your cauliflower is cooked. Frozen cauliflower is par cooked so you just need to make sure everything is heated through.
  4. Add salt and pepper to taste.
  5. Caramelize onion bulbs
  6. Plate up, quinoa on bottom, meat mixture, garnish, and then I top with some hot sauce you prefer. I like Sriracha. But use what you like.

Calories/stats:
Calories 472.25, Fat 27.85g, Fiber 6.97g, Carbs 32.02g, Sodium 541.6mg, Protein 26.95g

I hope you like this. It has been a while since I put up a recipe post. I have been super busy. But during this time of pandemic, sometimes we have to figure out how to work around what we normally use.

This was a happy successful fix. I told my family when I was making this that dinner might be weird, but it would be food. It worked out great.

Not to mention it is healthy, low in fat, and full of protein.

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Fuel Yourself During COVID- 19: Egg Veggie Wrap, and tips for storing fruit

While I can get the produce I will keep trying to get produce. My family and I love it. Yup you read that right. My kids both, 10, and 11 years old love this wrap. They love the veggies I give them, and will eat it.

I know I am lucky, but it is partially well mostly not luck. I have feed them veggies since they were little and only asked them to try them out. Saying, “I know that you may not like them. Not everyone likes everything, but at least try them out and see.” This got them to be willing to try, even if they don’t like them. =)

But that is beside the point of this blog post. If you are here for the tip here it is:

Freeze berries that are about to go off. For instance, these strawberries.

They were not the best looking, I washed them placed them in a ziploc bag laid them flat and then put them in the freezer. It will stop the aging process and then you can use them in baked goods, or even frozen beverages. Like a smoothie, or even adult ones like a margarita. I don’t drink but I have many friends that do. =)

Bananas we as a family prefer our bananas with slightly green tops to them, so when they get to the very brown spotty stage no one will eat them. I peel them and freeze them so that we can use them in banana muffins, bread, protein drinks and smoothies.

You can of course do this with other fruits, like apples, other berries, and veggies.

Potatoes you can dice them up, par boil them and then freeze them. Then use them in a soup, side dish mashed potatoes, or morning hash.

Enough of that prattling on, here is what I did for the egg sandwich wrap.

This is an easy very minimal cooking lunch/breakfast type of meal. Full of protein, fiber, some fat, and great raw nutrients.

This is:

  1. Vegetarian
  2. Low Fat
  3. High Protein
  4. Filling
  5. Can be gluten free, depending on the wrap you use

Egg Veggie Wrap

Ingredients:

  1. 2 eggs scrambled, I often do it with egg whites
  2. Slice up any vegetable you like, I used, cucumber, bell peppers, spinach, red onion, tomato
  3. Jarred jalapeno, this gives a little salty spicy flavor burst.
  4. Jalapeno Jack cheese (this is optional but is a great way to add a little more fat to the meal)
  5. A wrap of some sort. Tortilla, or this was a sun dried tomato wrap (I found them in the tortilla section of my local store)

Directions:

  1. cook the eggs in a scramble, when eggs are done place cheese over them to let it melt.
  2. slice veggies
  3. place wrap down, add egg, veggies, jalapeno
  4. fold over sides of wrap, tuck up bottom of wrap (or edge closest to your torso), and roll over.
  5. enjoy

stats:

Calories 508, Fat 23.8 g, Fiber 5.5 g, Carbs 48.2 g, Sodium 990 mg,
Protein 29.9 g

That is all she wrote folks. I hope this helps you come up with some healthy meal ideas. I hope the tips help you when dealing with product that might be going bad soon. Keep working to make yourself better. Keep trying to eat well and treat your body right.

During this pandemic, you can stay away from the highly processed food, with some tips and tricks to help you along the way.

Thanks for reading. Have a great day, and be kind to yourselves and others. This is a time of upheaval, and turmoil.

Chimichurri Burrito Bowl Lunch Meal Prep

If you are new to my blog. I am a Chef. I have both a culinary and baking and pastry degree. I am on a fitness journey that I will be on for the rest of my life.

I like to cook, and like any chef I like to eat. Now I try to eat with the thought of fueling my body for my fitness journey. We truely are an amazing bio machine and we need good foods to fuel it.

I train Martial Arts 5 to 6 days a week for upwards of 10 hours a week total. So to support that I need to eat well. Now do I always eat well? Do I always pass up that cupcake. Heck no! But I do try to make good decisions.

Enough rambling so here is what I made. A chimichurri burrito bowl. This bowl is full of protein, gluten free, dairy free, low fat, contains lots of veggies, slow digesting carbs, and most importantly has lots of flavor.

I took a short cut and got chicken that was pre marinated at the grocery store, but I regularly make chimichurri sauce on my own and will include that in this recipe.

Chimichurri Burrito Bowl

Yield: 5 servings for lunch

Ingredients:

  1. 3 bell peppers that I charred on the gas stove, and placing them in a bowl with plastic wrap to steam
  2. 1 jalapeno that I charred on the gas, and placing them in a bowl with plastic wrap to steam
  3. 1 onion that I charred on the gas stove, and placing them in a bowl with plastic wrap to steam
  4. 1.5 lbs of chicken marinated in chimichurri
  5. 3.75 cups of brown rice cooked
  6. 10 tablespoons of black beans
  7. 5 tablespoons of salsa – Optional
  8. 5 pinches of cilantro – Optional
  9. salt and pepper to taste
  10. granulated garlic to taste

Directions:

  1. Cook brown rice to directions on package
  2. Char your veggies over a BBQ or on a gas stove. Place them in a bowl with plastic wrap to steam them.
  3. Cook your chicken marinated in chimichurri
  4. Chop up veggies, and lightly sautee them in a pan, adding pepper, salt, and granulated garlic to taste
  5. Heat up canned black beans, drained
  6. Add 3/4 cup/ 112g of brown rice to bowl, add 1 cup/130 g of chicken to each bowl, add 1 cup/148 g of veggies to bowl, add 2 tablespoons/52g of black beans, add 1 tablespoons/32 g of salsa.

Chimichurri sauce

Ingredients:

  1. 1/2 cup olive oil
  2. 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
  3. 1/2 cup finely chopped parsley
  4. 3-4 cloves garlic , finely chopped or minced
  5. 2 small red chilies , or 1 red chili, deseeded and finely chopped (about 1 tablespoon finely chopped chili)
  6. 3/4 teaspoon dried oregano
  7. 1 level teaspoon coarse salt
  8. pepper , to taste (about 1/2 teaspoon)

Directions:

Mix all ingredients together. Let sit for at least a few minutes. Letting it sit for 2 hours before use is much better. Marinate meat over night, reserve some for topping.

Nutritional Stats:
Calories 555, Fat 8.7 g, Fiber 11.7 g, Carbs 65.1 g, Sodium 1553.5 mg,
Protein 45.8 g

I hope you get a chance to try this recipe. You can reduce the sodium if you are concerned by omitting the salsa, and taking some of the salt out of the chimichurri sauce.

It was/is delicious and easy to make. It took about 40 minutes to prep for a whole week of lunches.

Try it out. Thank you for reading, if you liked this please let me know and feel free to share.