As the rain pours down in Miami and I can barely see the buildings beside mine, I’m celebrating…Back to the day shift! And normal eating and meal prep đ Unfortunately I am in the process of shifting from night watch to day watch in 48 hours flat, which doesn’t give the body (or the brain) much time to make that change. Â Let’s just say a 4 am wake-up tomorrow morning will not be fun. Â Ugh.
Anyways, on a lighter note, I had some majorly weird dreams yesterday while trying to wake myself up by noon (after getting home at 6:30). Â Of course as soon as my alarm started blaring Backyard by Guster, I frantically thrashed around trying to figure out why anyone would be so rudely playing their music so loud. Â To set the scene: I had on my eye mask and earplugs in, so I had no idea where I was. Â Once I finally found the snooze button and snuggled back in to sleep (obviously), I embarked on one of my super-strange sleeping-during-the-day dreams. Â Which I always remember clearly for some reason. Â Essentially I got robbed…but I was in my parent’s house and I was realllly upset about the fact that the furniture was gone (??).
After that, I got my butt out of bed to avoid any further weird sleeping-during-the-day dreams, had some breakfast, and sat down to come up with a meal plan before a grocery store trip. Â Welp, my body was not having it. Â I passed out again. Â And the dream I had this time was even weirder. Â I think my brain wanted to be awake but my body was saying no-no-no, not in my house (anybody get that?) lol. Â Anyways, I was basically a zombie in my dream…I was on my couch desperately trying to get up (yep, in my dream) and every time I tried I fell over and couldn’t open my eyes. Â And I was really embarrassed because there were window washers hanging outside of my balcony. Â So strange.
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| Sink full of freshly washed and ready to eat/prep fruit and veggies! |
Soooo after waking up with an overwhelming sense of WTF-ness and still not having a meal plan, I decided I needed some refreshing and fun stuff to eat for the next few days. Â Here’s what I came up with:
Mediterranean Chicken Pitas – I’m not usually a huge fan of Mediterranean food, but these are awesome!!! Very refreshing (win!) and super easy to throw together. Â Not my standard prepped meal that I can just pop in the microwave, but I’m okay with that. Â Recipe will be up shortly đ
and…Southwestern Turkey Bowls – I’ll be having this for dinner tonight so I didn’t make a pretty picture of it to put up here.
Here’s what I put in mine:
Southwestern Turkey Bowls
Makes 4-5 servings
Ingredients:
- 1 lb lean ground turkey
- 15oz can low sodium black beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 cup corn
- 1/4 c chopped green onion
- 2 small tomatoes, chopped
- 1 jalapeno pepper, chopped
- 2 small avocados
- 1 tbsp + 1 tsp olive oil
- 2 tsp lime juice
- 1 tsp cajun seasoning
Directions:
- In a large bowl, combine black beans, corn, green onion, tomatoes, jalapeno, 1 tbsp olive oil, lime juice and some salt and black peper to taste.
- Heat 1 tsp olive oil in a pan over medium-high heat. Â Add ground turkey and cajun seasoning. Â Continue breaking apart turkey until cooked through.
- Combine turkey and black bean mix in serving bowl.
- Top with half an avocado.
Enjoy eating healthy all week!
