Splattered Angst

Saturday or Sunday afternoon I have work in the kitchen. I grow testy with anyone else in the house that tries to move in over my work area and disrupt the task at hand: preparing in bulk, meals for the coming week. I have a shelf load of Ziplock containers that hold 2 1/2 cups each. 8 meals a day is what I am consuming at this point - every two hours, I feed. A meal fits into the above mentioned containers. A person can do this cheaply. You don’t have to buy fancy cuts of steak or expensive fish. Yogurt, canned chicken and tuna [Costco and Trader Joes rock], cottage cheese and ground beef are among the staples. First meal of the day, as soon as a wake, between 3:00 and 4:00 AM: 1 cup non fat yogurt, scoop of protein powder, scoop of oatmeal with a spoon full of glutamine. Stir … breakfast pudding. Post workout, same thing only this version contains  frozen berries/fruit. I prepare this one mass on the weekend. Here is what I throw in: 32 oz of non-fat yogurt, three scoops of protein powder, three table spoons of glutamine , three scoops of oatmeal, fruit to taste. Stir in a power mixer. Makes three 2 1/2 cup servings - freeze until needed. Next: the egg dish: 3 cups of egg whites with 4-6 yokes remaining stir in a cup of sun dried tomatoes - cook. One heaping cup in each container. Sprinkle with hot sauce and a squirt of ketchup. Ground beef dish: three lbs of kinda lean ground beef. Cook, pour meat into a large pot to stir in three cups of cooked brown rice and three cups of salsa. Makes about 7-8 meals. Don’t drain off all the fat when cooking the ground beef. Leave some in to keep the dish from getting dry. The canned chicken dishes: one cup brown rice, a portion of chicken that is no bigger/ticker than the palm area of your hand. I cover it with a couple of table spoons full of a tasty salad dressing - I have a variety of them for just that, variety. Another seasonal chicken dish: one medium sized sweet potato cooked, chicken portion, half an avocado [I have four trees of them gotta eat them], salad dressing to taste in a Ziplock container. Tuna dish: Three tangerines peeled and sectioned, one can of tuna. Pour over sweeter/fruity salad dressing to taste. Another chicken dish: Purple cabbage - slice/dice fill Ziplock 2/3 full with cabbage, chicken portion, add salad dressing to taste. This would be the lower carb late afternoon meal. Before bed - half cup of cottage cheese, quarter cup of almonds, scoop of chocolate protein powder, spoon full of glutamine - stir. Looks like pigeon crap, but it makes for a tasty desert like evening meal. The meals prepared take up a shelf in the fridge. Each morning I fill the cooler and bolt out the door. If you don’t plan, you are planning to fail.

So ends this entry with all my odd meals. If you got some ideas from it — COOOOOL!

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