With the craziness of work starting back up after the holidays we wanted to provide you with some amazing, delicious and fast recipes to help make your life a little easier! Getting back into a routine with taking your kids back to school and going back to work can be crazy after some time off.
In this blog post you will find 3 different recipes that are quick and simple to make. There will be one for each meal of the day, breakfast, lunch and dinner. Hopefully these recipes will help make your life a little less chaotic as you get back into your schedules! We hope you enjoy them!
We have given you the grocery list of the items needed for each recipe to help make your grocery trip a little faster and the written instructions for how to prepare each meal! We also wanted to provide you with the nutritional value that one serving has so you know that these meals are healthy while also being delicious!
Breakfast
Balanced Protein Cereal is a great way to start off your breakfast! It has 491 calories, 40g of protein, 57g of carbs, and 15g of fat and it only takes 5 minutes to prepare!
For 1 serving you need to following ingredients:
– 10 almond Almonds raw
– 1 scoop Generic Pea Protein Powder
– ¾ cup (46 g) Cereals ready-to-eat kellogg raisin bran
– 1 ½ cup (368 g) Soy milk vanilla fortified
The directions are super simple as well! All you do is blend the soy milk and protein powder together. Then you add the cereal to a bowl, add in the protein mixture, top with almonds and enjoy!
Lunch
WIld Rice Soup done in an Instant Pot. It has 511 calories, 45g of protein, 54g of carbs, and 13g of fat. The preparation time is only 5 minutes and the cook time is 10 minutes!
For the ingredients you will need:
– ½ stalk, medium Celery
– 1 cup pieces Mushrooms
– 1 clove Garlic
– 4 oz (113 g) Cauliflower Rice
– 1 medium Carrots
– ½ cup (40 g) Egg white protein powder unflavored
– ⅓ cup (81 g) Almond milk
– 1 1/2 tsp Butter
– 1 tsp Spices poultry seasoning
– ⅔ cup (161 g) Chicken broth
– ¼ cup (40 g) Rice wild dry uncooked
– ½ small Onions
The directions are easy and simple!
- Prepare the ingredients: chop the carrots, celery, and onion, mince the garlic, and slice the mushrooms.
- Add the carrots, celery, onion, garlic, wild rice, fresh mushrooms, chicken broth, cauliflower, and spice poultry seasoning to the IP.
- Cook for 5 minutes manually with high pressure. After cooking, release the pressure and allow the steam to empty before opening.
- Preheat a saucepan and melt the butter, whisk in the almond milk, mix to combine, and add the protein powder. Add a little salt and cook until you have a good measure. Add water to make a liquid mixture.
- Add the cream sauce to the soup in the Instant Pot and mix.
- Serve and Enjoy!
Dinner
Greek Chicken Pitas. It has 473 calories, 29g of protein, 48g of carbs, and 21g of fat. Total preparation time is 10 minutes!
For 1 serving the ingredients include:
– ⅔ sprigs Baby dill
– ⅓ clove Garlic raw
– ⅓ fruit (2-1/8″ dia) Lemon raw
– 2 oz (56.67 g) Avocados raw California
– 1 pita, large (6-1/2″ dia) Pita whole wheat
– 2.83 oz (80.33 g) Greek yogurt plain nonfat
– 2.33 oz (66 g) Shredded chicken
– 1 oz (28.33 g) Cucumber with peel raw
– ⅔ tablespoon Olive oil
– 0.08 small Red onion
The directions are easy too!
- Slice or grate the cucumber, mince or crush the garlic, slice the onion and avocado and chop the dill.
- To prepare the tzatziki, combine yogurt, dill, lemon juice, cucumber, and garlic in a bowl. Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Combine the chicken with the tzatziki, then prepare the pitas by filling each one with the chicken, onion, avocado, and a drizzle of olive oil.
