Meal Plan #99 – Excessive Protein

January 9, 2025

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Collage of high protein meals including salmon, pancakes with berries, and steak bites. Text in the center reads High Protein Meal Plan #99.

Preserve scrolling for extra particulars, aspect dish concepts, and the obtain hyperlink for the free printable menu plan and grocery record!

Need extra? Take a look at all of our meal plans.

Why Meal Plan?

Meal planning simplifies your life and saves time. It takes the guesswork out of busy nights. It’s one much less factor to consider every night. You have got a plan and all you could do is execute it. Publish the meal plan on the fridge so everybody is aware of what to anticipate. It’s a great way to get the household concerned.

Meal planning saves cash. If in case you have a plan and purchase solely what you want from the grocery retailer, you’re a lot much less seemingly to purchase objects you don’t want which can be wasted. You’re additionally much less more likely to eat out and that may save a bunch of cash.

Meal planning is more healthy. Planning meals forward offers you time to consider incorporating wholesome greens, fruits, legumes, and grains. As well as, getting ready your individual meals at house is all the time more healthy than eating out.

What Makes Rachel Cooks Meal Plans Completely different?

I do know there are quite a lot of meal plans accessible. Some are free (ours are free!) and others value cash. So why select ours?

We plan them with a busy schedule in thoughts. Our essential aim is to make these meal plans affordable and reasonable. Which means we’re not simply grabbing 5 random recipes and sending you off to the shop with a ridiculously lengthy grocery record. We take into consideration what works nicely collectively and easy methods to prevent time.
Steadiness: As you most likely already know, the vast majority of the recipes on Rachel Cooks are simple to arrange. Nonetheless, some recipes simply naturally have longer ingredient lists than others. We’re preserving that in thoughts, and balancing the extra difficult recipes with less complicated recipes which have shorter ingredient lists.
Enjoyable Fridays! We’ll take it simple on you each Friday (TGIF!) with a enjoyable, easy-to-prepare meal. Assume tacos, pizza, or different kid-friendly recipes you possibly can throw along with a couple of store-bought shortcuts.
Categorized Grocery Checklist: Not solely is the grocery record categorized to make buying simple, nevertheless it additionally signifies which day the ingredient is required. Which means in case you aren’t consuming dwelling on Friday, you possibly can simply undergo the record and cross off the Friday substances. Perhaps you suppose Monday’s recipe sounds…gross. We disagree, after all, however you possibly can cross off these substances with out having to comb by way of every recipe to determine what you do or don’t want.
Meal Prep/Make Forward: Lots of our recipes embody concepts to get a head begin on recipes. That is elective, after all, however generally doing slightly meal prepping forward of time (possibly on Saturday or Sunday) could make an enormous distinction on weeknights!

What To Count on

One meal plan every week (on Thursdays – to present you time to plan, prep, and store). The recipes serve 4 folks until in any other case said.
Every meal plan contains:
- 5 essential dish recipes, often one meatless meal
- 1 bonus recipe: one thing you possibly can prep early within the week and luxuriate in all week lengthy. It could be a recipe for breakfast, a wholesome snack, or a dessert.
- Printable grocery record
Sometimes, seasonally centered meal plans in addition to some specialty meal plans (gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian, and so forth.).

Every meal plan will likely be proceed to be accessible after the week it’s printed, so in case you discover a favourite, you’ll all the time be capable to come again to it time and again!

How To Use The Meal Plans

Right here’s what you’re going to do!

Print the meal plan together with the grocery record.
Head to every recipe, and print the recipe. You’ll be able to simply use the “leap to recipe” button on the high of the put up in case you like, or you possibly can learn the put up for extra details about the recipe. Lots of our posts embody data on easy methods to make the recipe your individual. In case you plan to make modifications, simply bear in mind to jot down what you want on the grocery record.
Have a look at the grocery record and cross off any substances you have already got or which can be for recipes you don’t plan to make.
Head to the grocery retailer to get your groceries. You’ll discover that grocery buying is much less traumatic and sooner when you could have a very good record.
Prepare dinner and luxuriate in! Don’t neglect to share on social media while you make considered one of my recipes. I like to see that and infrequently re-share your posts! I additionally actually love and respect feedback and critiques on the recipes. All the time be happy to ask questions, too. We’ll reply them to the most effective of our capacity.