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7 Day THM No Cook Meal Plan (Drive Thru Sue Approved)

December 27, 2020 by Stacy Craft Leave a Comment

There are always times in life that pop up and make it hard to cook big and elaborate meals. This 7 day THM no cook meal plan will make your life so much easier and it will even work for the most extreme Drive Thru Sue followers.

Free 7 Day THM No Cook Meal Plan

Even before I started Trim Healthy Mama, I loved having no cook or very minimal cook recipes that could feed my family at home but that were easy enough to prepare even on the hardest days. 

On those days where you can’t possibly imagine cooking anything, these meals will keep you on plan and won’t have you in the kitchen cooking all day. 

This 7 day THM no cook meal plan is just what you need for weeks that you know will be busy or even for brand new THM beginners. Keeping it simple is one of the ways that I learned to succeed on THM. 

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Follow my simple (and often DTS) Instagram THM food diary for more inspiration!

7 Day THM No Cook Meal Plan (Drive Thru Sue Approved)

In this easy 7 day meal plan, you will need to perform very minimal and basic prep in order to prepare these meals. 

And while utilizing pre-prepared items from the grocery store is not as economical as prepping from scratch, this meal plan was prepared with a budget in mind. 

Few special ingredients are used in this meal plan. And while I am certainly not anti special ingredients (they have their place) but you certainly do not need them to be successful on this plan.

A Note on Personal Choice Items

If you are pressed for time, personal choice items are going to save the day a lot! Personal choice items are not bad. They are products that the sisters have approved as being able to fit on plan as an S, FP or E meal but they may not have the most ideal ingredients (not quite as clean, a little more processed etc but the fats/carbs and overall ingredients work).

There is nothing wrong with using these items and they often keep me on plan if I am very busy. For example, a breakfast burrito that my husband makes me on a low carb tortilla that I can eat in the car is way better than stopping at the donut shop! 

If your weight loss stalls, you may want to cut back on some of the personal choice items to see if that is the cause of your stall. If you are nervous about personal choice items, let me put you at ease.

I have eaten PC all the way through my journey and lost 60 lbs after my last baby. This meal plan represents the way that I might choose to eat during a busy season. Yes, there are personal choice items but they certainly are not every meal. 

If it is too many PC for you, just switch those items out for something else. 

Cooking Requirements 

Some meals on this 7 Day THM No Cook Meal Plan don’t even require heating while others require the use of the microwave or one skillet on the stove. 

What I can promise? You won’t be making anything complicated. If there are any pots or pans to wash, it will just be one. No blender, no complicated casseroles with 100 ingredients. 

And while we are at it, let’s talk about what this meal plan is not. It is not a gourmet meal plan that is going to impress your foodie friends. But it is a simple, on plan menu that will help you get through tough times while sticking with Trim Healthy Mama. 

Let’s get started with this free 7 day THM no cook meal plan!

Day 1

THM Easy Meal Plan Day 1 No Cook

Breakfast: Microwave Jimmy Dean Egg Scramble  (or make your own – still simple) and fresh berries (THM S) 
Lunch: Progresso Light Soup & add 1/2 can of green beans to bulk it up (THM FP)
Dinner: Frozen Burger Patty (cooked in Skillet), Serve in a Joseph’s Pita with cheese, lettuce, a few slices of onion and tomato, microwaved bacon if you like, mustard and mayo. Sides: Pork Rinds and a green salad with ranch. (THM S)

Day 2

THM Easy Meal Plan Day 2 No Cook

Breakfast: Love Grown O’s (or Ezekiel Cereal), 1/2 a banana sliced, a sprinkle of an on plan sweetener (I like Monkfruit) and unsweetened almond milk. (THM E)

*this meal is lower in protein than most. If you want to increase it, add some protein powder to the milk or eat some lean lunch meat on the side.
Lunch: Tortilla pizza with a green salad & ranch. (THM S)
Dinner: Tyson Blackened Chicken Tenders (you can sub rotisserie if you can’t find but really try to find it – amazing! I get mine at Target or Kroger), a bunch of Romaine, Ranch dressing – wrap in a Carb Balance Tortilla. Just warm the chicken in the air fryer or oven and pile the rest of the ingredients in the tortilla to make a wrap. You can have pork rinds as a side for some crunch and fresh berries. (THM S)

Day 3 

THM Easy Meal Plan Day 3 No Cook

Breakfast: Stevia Sweetened Instant Oatmeal & half a banana. You could add a few pieces of lean lunch meat or a Two Good yogurt for additional protein if needed.(THM E)
Lunch: Snack Lunch – Nuts, Sweet peppers, Lunch meat or Salami, Cheese (THM S)
Dinner: Black Bean Tacos (THM E)

Day 4

THM Easy Meal Plan Day 4 No Cook

Breakfast: Boiled Eggs (make some at the beginning of the week or buy them boiled), Celery with peanut butter to dip. (THM S)
Lunch: Smoked Salmon roll ups with Greek Yogurt & Berries (THM S)
Dinner: Rotisserie Chicken and frozen microwave non-starchy veggies (the picture shows sauteed veggies in oil which changes this to a light S meal) (FP)

Day 5

THM Easy Meal Plan Day 5 No Cook

Breakfast: Breakfast Burrito (Slice a couple of warmed boiled eggs or scramble them, microwave a few pieces of bacon, sprinkle some shredded cheese and salsa in one Carb Balance tortilla) (THM S)
Lunch: Chef Salad (Make one with your leftover romaine, some deli meat and cheese or grab one from the grocery premade – just avoid croutons. I add Whisps for some crunch). Ranch dressing. (THM S)
Dinner: Baked Sweet potato (cook in the microwave if you want). Add a Light Laughing Cow Cheese wedge and mix with a fork until creamy. Top with rotisserie chicken tossed in wing sauce. Something about the sweet & spicy – so good! Green beans for a side. (THM E)

Day 6

THM Easy Meal Plan Day 6 No Cook

Breakfast: Cottage Cheese Bowl (I would choose an S bowl for this meal but if you are wanting more E’s feel free to opt for an E) The grocery list is for the strawberry/pecan variety.
Lunch: Tuna Salad on Sprouted Bread with carrot sticks and celery. (THM E)
Dinner: Chicken Bacon Ranch Salad – A big plate of romaine, rotisserie chicken, microwaved bacon or bits, cheese if you like, extra veggies like bell pepper, onion or cucumbers & ranch. (THM S)

Day 7

THM Easy Meal Plan Day 7 No Cook (1)

Breakfast: Two Good Yogurt, a piece of whole E fruit (apple, pear, 1/2 banana) OR sprouted toast with light laughing cow and Polaner’s Jelly (or Simply Fruit Jelly). (THM E)
Lunch: Tyson Blackened Chicken tender sandwich on sprouted bread. Use a Light laughing cow as a spread for the bread (and some mustard if you want). Carrot Sticks and Celery. 
Dinner: Crockpot Taco Soup – It is literally an open cans and dump recipe. You add in some leftover rotisserie chicken & you have a super simple warm up meal. Can’t remember to get the crockpot out? Just make it on the stove top! (THM E) If dumping the cans sounds like too much (and depending on your circumstances it just might) just have another can of Progresso Light. 

Easy THM Snacks & Desserts 

This 7 day THM no cook meal plan doesn’t include snacks and desserts but you will certainly want some throughout the week. 

If you are having a busy week or just starting out on Trim Healthy Mama, I would keep snacks and desserts very simple. A strawberry Two Good yogurt with a few on plan chocolate chips makes for an easy dessert. 

Two good Yogurt with Two Good Chocolate Chips

A pear and some lean deli meat is a great snack. You don’t need to prepare a bunch of baked goods to stay on plan. You can, sure. Or you can take advantage of simple combinations or store bought items that make snack time a breeze. 

You could even have a quick bowl of the Stevia instant oatmeal (you will have extras) as a simple afternoon snack. 

These resources may help:

THM On the Go Snacks & Treats that require No Refrigeration – DTS Friendly

23 Store Bought THM Desserts

Substitutions to the DTS Meal Plan 

What if I don’t like certain items on the menu? Can I sub in an item that I like? 

  • Sure, just make sure that it is the same fuel as the rest of the meal so that you don’t unintentionally change the fuel. The THM Food Analyzer app is a great resource to help you make fuel substitutions. 

Adding in Extra Fruits or Veggies 

I tried to make this menu as simple as possible. Feel free to add in extra non-starchy vegetables or berries to any S meal. 

For E meals, you may be able to add in a little more of an E fruit or vegetable. However, in each E meal there is already a carb source. To avoid carb loading, you may want to add non-starchy vegetables or berries if you need to bulk up the meal vs. additional carbs. 

FP veggie ideas that are easy to add to any meal type:

  • Sliced English cucumbers
  • Sliced Bell peppers or Sweet Peppers (because you don’t even have to cut those!) 
  • Pickled Okra 
  • Dill Pickles 
  • Grape Tomatoes (Just not too many in an S)
  • Pre-cut Jicama Sticks 
  • Celery 

Dressing For Salads

In this meal plan, I only listed S salads with ranch dressing. I’m a ranch girl and I don’t stray far from it typically. But feel free to use your favorite dressing on these S salads. 

You can make your own or just look for a dressing that has less than 2 grams of sugar. My favorite is the Bolthouse Farms ranch – find it in the refrigerated section of the grocery store near the bagged salad.

Eating Out 

If you have a busy week, eating out for a meal or two may be necessary. Don’t worry, you can eat on plan while on the go! 

Here is a guide to eating on plan at your favorite fast food restaurants & this guide will help you eat at almost any sit down or take out restaurant.

So go out, buy yourself a couple of rotisserie chickens and lets get ready for an easy, on plan week with Trim Healthy Mama!

Free 7 Day THM No Cook Grocery List 

Here is the grocery list for the 7 day THM no cook meal plan. Print it out and grab the groceries that you need for the week. 

THM-No-Cook-Meal-Plan-Grocery-List

You can click this link to print the grocery list: THM No Cook Meal Plan Grocery List

Enjoying this free 7 Day THM No Cook Meal Plan? We have MORE!

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Trim Healthy Mama A to Z – the complete guide to understanding THM & finally sticking with it. 

Free No Cook Trim Healthy Mama DTS Meal Plan

Filed Under: Featured, Plan, Recipes, Trim Healthy Mama Tagged With: Drive Thru Sue, meal plan, no cook, THM, Trim Healthy mama

What I Ate Wednesday on THM – 11/18/20

November 19, 2020 by Stacy Craft Leave a Comment

What I Ate Wednesday on THM - 11-18-20

“What I Ate Wednesday on THM” is a series of posts that are a daily meal plan meets food diary. You can see exactly the portions I ate for the day, the fuel type and meal ideas for your Trim Healthy Mama lifestyle. 

Here are my Trim Healthy plates for 11/18/20. 

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What I Ate Wednesday on THM – 11/18/20 

In this post you will find meal ideas, see foods separated by fuel and find budget tips to keep your food budget low. 

5:00 – 6:30 AM – 2 cups Coffee with tsp of creamer and 1/4 tsp sweetener. (See Note Below)

6:30 AM – Quaker Instant Oatmeal (the on plan stevia sweetened variety) with 1/3 of a banana. 
THM E

Quaker Fiber & Protein Sugar Free Instant Oatmeal

9:30 AM – Cup of coffee with creamer/sweetener; Leftover Instant Pot ham, cheese slices, cashews and English cucumber slices. (I don’t usually eat a morning snack but after my light breakfast and exercise, I was hungry)
THM S

Ham Cheese Cashews and Cucumber Snack

12:30 PM – 2 fried eggs, 2 slices of bacon, 1/2 of a Joseph’s Pita; A Two Good Yogurt with Lily’s Chocolate Chips; A piece of frozen pumpkin ice cream pie.

(I also don’t usually eat a big dessert at lunch but I made this pie last night and it was so good!)
THM S

THM S Breakfast Sandwich in Joseph's Pita Two Good Yogurt with Lily's Chocolate Chips - THM S

Sugar Free Pumpkin Ice Cream Pie - THM S KETO

3:30 PM – Light String Cheese and Carbmaster Crackers (about 1/2 a serving) 
THM E (light E)

Crunchmaster Crackers - THM E

6:30 PM – Coconut Lime Chicken Legs (from my new Freezer Cooking post) and ranch green beans. 2 Squares of a Bake Believe Bar. 
THM S

Chicken Legs and Ranch Green Beans Bake Believe Chocolate Bar

8:00 PM – Caramel tea (one of several of my Fall/Winter THM Obsessions)
THM FP 

Salted Caramel Hot Tea = THM FP

A Note About My Coffee

Coffee. Glorious coffee that gets me up and moving in the morning. 

I don’t necessarily follow the THM rules for coffee (among other rules that I sometimes break). I’m telling you this so that you have an understanding of how things work for me. Not to necessarily encourage you to do it the way that I do.

But to encourage you to try THM, even if you need coffee an hour or so before you eat. I add so little creamer that even when I eat an E meal, it doesn’t push me into a XO. 

So I choose to enjoy my mornings with a cup of coffee and my laptop before the kids get up. It brings me joy so I do it!

Come back next Wednesday for another What I Ate Wednesday on THM!

Join me on Instagram where I post meals every day!

Filed Under: Featured, Plan, Trim Healthy Mama, What I Ate Wednesday Tagged With: Food Diary, meal plan, What I ate Wednesday on THM

7 Frugal Trim Healthy Mama Dinners

January 4, 2019 by Stacy Craft 2 Comments

Trim Healthy Mama can seem overwhelming and expensive. Eating healthy doesn’t have to cost a ton. Here we have planned 7 Frugal Trim Healthy Mama dinners for your family of 4 (that your non-THM family will actually eat).

7 Frugal Trim Healthy Mama Dinners

When I am following Trim Healthy Mama, I like to keep it really simple. Simplifying the plan helps this working mama of 2 young kids stay sane and eating healthy. Today I am going to share 7 Frugal Trim Healthy Mama Dinners that we eat frequently. They are all quick to prepare, will feed your family of four and are inexpensive.

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Eating Cheap On Trim Health Mama Plan

Myth #1: Eating healthy is too expensive! Ya’ll that is fake news! I know you can buy junk food that is cheap. Sure you can buy a frozen pot pie, a can of chips or a box of orange mac n cheese for a $1 or so.

But you can also buy a carton of 12 eggs. Yesterday at Aldi, for less than a $1.50 I found a huge bag of gala apples. So I can eat a hard boiled egg (S) or an apple (E) for snacks and I spent less than $2.50 for both.To make those snacks complete, I would add probably add a lite string cheese or even a slice or two of lean deli meat.

Another tip to save money on THM is to only buy the lite string cheese or the lean deli meat. If you pair your boiled eggs with the lean cheese or meat, you are still getting enough fat from the eggs to make the snack an S. However, you won’t have to buy additional cheese and meat to go with your E snacks like an apple where you can only have the lighter varieties.

I encourage you to open your heart and mind to researching the plan and finding ways that you can do it, even on a tight budget. It may be a little more difficult than just walking into the store and buying whatever you want. However, it is so worth it to have your family eating better foods.

These 7 frugal Trim Healthy Mama dinners will help get you and your family on the right track.

Want to budget but hate cash envelopes? Try this FREE digital tracker.

7 Frugal Trim Healthy Mama Dinners

Myth #2. You will be in the kitchen for hours a day on THM. Ok, ain’t nobody got time for that! Whether you are working 40+ hours a week with two little ones at your feet like me or you may be running from the football field to ballet every night, we need quick and easy and THM compliant. That’s not too much to ask, right?

My favorite THM meals are cheap, quick to prepare and something that my whole family will eat. My husband will usually at least partially participate in my Trim Healthy plan so long as I don’t get too crazy with cauliflower or onions (or other things he doesn’t think he likes). My daughter (5) is in that phase where if it isn’t shaped like a chicken nugget, she may or may not eat it. The baby will currently eat anything, so naturally he is my fave.

So, getting my family to eat the food that I prepare can be a challenge. These meals are all things that my family of four eats frequently and for the most part all enjoy. (being 5 can be tough, so her level of love can vary from day to day!)

Trim Healthy Mama Meal Plan

Here is the list of 7 Frugal Trim Healthy Mama dinners that we eat at our house often.

Day One: Cheesy Salsa Verde Chicken with Cauliflower Rice (S)

  • Ingredients: Steam bag of Cauliflower rice, Salsa Verde, cream cheese, Frozen Chicken tenders (1/2 bag)
  • Recipe: My most popular Recipe, read all about it here!
  • Tips: Use mild salsa if you want kids to eat this. The medium is quite spicy. This is a very rich and filling meal. If you want an additional side, I would go with a green vegetable or a side salad.

Day Two: Black Bean Tacos (E)

  • Ingredients: black beans, Mission Low Carb Tortillas
  • Recipe: Warm your black beans and serve in tortillas. Top it with some greek yogurt as a sub for sour cream if you have it, Shred some fresh spinach (you should have some to spare from Day four), some hot sauce and a sprinkle of cheese (go really light if you want it to be an E, too much and you will XO)
  • Tips: This is such a quick meal. It is probably our go to “it is 6:30 and we have no dinner plan” meal. We love it.

Day Three: Whole Baked Chicken, Steamed Vegetables, Sweet Potato (E)

  • Ingredients: Whole Chicken, bag of mixed vegetables, sweet potatoes
  • Recipe: Season and roast your chicken (I use a Rotisserie similar to this but you can do it in the oven or even buy one already cooked from the grocery), Steam the veggies in microwave and cook your sweet potato.
  • Tips: This can be an “emergency” meal if you pick up an already cooked chicken at the store and do your sweet potatoes in the microwave to prevent a drive thru run.

Day Four: Smoked Sausage with Grilled Vegetables, Cheesy Spinach (S)

  • Ingredients: Smoked Sausage, onion, Red, green and yellow Bell peppers, Fresh Spinach, portion of heavy whipping cream, Portion of cheese
  • Recipe: You can find the recipe for the sausage and veggies here. For the spinach, wilt the spinach and cheese it up with the HWC and cheese
  • Tips: I really prefer this with Chicken sausage but Walmart doesn’t have one that fits the plan that I can find (I get it from Aldi). The meal itself is pretty light so make sure you bulk it up with all the veggies. Adding in a zucchini or yellow squash would be good too.

Day Five: Ground Pork and Vegetable Stir Fry (S)

  • Ingredients: Ground Pork, Stir Fry Vegetables
  • Recipe: Just brown your pork, drain any fat and combine with vegetables. Cook until veggies are softened. Add in a tablespoon or so of liquid aminos and some ground ginger (tsp) if you have it.
  • Tips: Very quick meal. You could add in some cauliflower rice if you wanted to bulk this meal up.

Day Six: Grilled Chicken Tenderloins, Fried Radishes, Cheesy Zucchini (S)

  • Ingredients: Remaining 1/2 bag frozen chicken tenders, Radishes, Zucchini, Small portion Heavy whipping cream, portion of shredded cheese
  • Recipe: Just season your tenderloins with what you have on hand, fry radishes in olive oil (save some bacon grease from breakfast for extra flavor) and make the cheesy zucchini
  • Tips: the cheesy zucchini makes it to our plate at least once a week. It took a little convincing to get my girl to try it but it tastes a little like mac n cheese so she gobbled it up.

Day Seven: Turkey Ham & Beans (E)

  • Ingredients: 1/4 – 1/2 of turkey ham, white (Northern) beans
  • Recipe: Easy 15 minute recipe here
  • Tips: Top it off with a little parsley if you have it. This is so easy and my kids always eat it. If you can find sprouted rolls, those are yummy as a side.

More Cheap And Easy THM Meals:

THM S No Tortilla Cheese & Onion Enchiladas

THM S Instant Pot Taco Meat (With Secret Nutritious Ingredient)

THM S Tortilla Pizza

THM E The Best Crockpot Taco Soup 

THM S Mama’s Italian Salad

THM E – White Chicken Chili (A Pantry Meal)

Walmart Grocery List

A low grocery bill is great. But I also need my THM grocery list to be easy to get. Going to three different grocery stores is not something I have time to do on a weekly basis.

I do shop at Aldi often, but I know not everyone has access to this store. So I chose to show this meal plan with a Walmart grocery order since I think most people have access to a Walmart. And because I love their free grocery pickup! It saves me so much time and sanity to just pull up to a parking spot and get my food. No getting the kids out of carseats!

Here is exactly what I put in my cart to make the 7 frugal Trim Healthy Mama dinners. This list does assume that you have a few basics like olive oil, seasonings and liquid aminos (I just use regular soy sauce but that is not on plan, you can read how I make the plan work for my budget here).

Also, your family, your meals. These are ideas for basic meals. Add additional veggies or fruit as you see fit. If you buy fruit or veggies in season, you can usually get a serving of 4 for around $1. Also, frozen veggies are almost always available for around $1 a bag.

Walmart Grocery Online Order THM Meal Plan

Walmart Grocery Snip 2

Cost Per Meal

Using this 7 Frugal Trim Healthy Mama Dinners meal plan, the average cost of dinner is $8.15 per meal. That works out to $2.03 per person.

These meals easily feed our family of four which consists of my husband, a 5 year old, a 1 year old and myself. My husband is a pretty big eater and most meals we still have some type of leftovers.

At the end of this meal plan, you should also have about half of the turkey ham leftover, most of the heavy whipping cream, some shredded cheese and some fresh spinach leftover. You could make some yummy omelettes or 2 minute microwave eggs with those ingredients.

More THM Help

If you found these 7 frugal Trim Healthy Mama dinners helpful, here are some other things that may make your THM life easier! As a working mama, easy lunches are a must. Here are 6 THM lunches for work and 5 things to do with leftover chicken for lunch.

Another easy and fairly low cost dinner option is a twist on my popular cheesy salsa verde chicken and cauliflower rice. These Salsa verde chicken enchiladas require just a handful of ingredients and 20 minutes in the oven.

If you want something totally different, try my Granny’s low carb cajun shrimp casserole. She always made it with white rice but I THM’d it by using cauliflower rice. So good!

You can find two other meal plans here & here if this 7 frugal Trim Healthy Mama dinners guide was more your style.

What are your THM goals this year?

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THM Beach Vacation Meal Plan

August 11, 2020 by Stacy Craft Leave a Comment

Stay on plan while traveling with this free and easy THM beach vacation meal plan.

THM Vacation Meal Plan (1)

Staying on plan when you are out of town can be difficult. But with a tiny bit of planning and this THM beach vacation meal plan you can lose weight with your toes in the sand.

I had a week off work planned and our original plans got COVID cancelled. Moping and feeling sorry for myself for several weeks is probably the biggest understatement of the year. Followed by some guilt because obviously a cancelled vacation is such a minor issue compared to the things that have happened to so many people during this pandemic. 

But I’m human and I couldn’t help be disappointed in our plans falling through. So on Tuesday my husband & I booked a condo for the fam and headed down to the beach for some much needed fun (6 ft apart)! 

This is totally not my normal personality. I think I’ve only done one spontaneous thing in my life, make that 2 now. I’m a planner. I like to look for a condo in October and book it. Then I spend months planning activities, meals and things that we need to pack with us. 

A 3 day jump on a beach trip is just not normal for me but I was willing to do whatever to go. And sticking to the Trim Healthy Mama plan was one thing that I wanted to do during the vacation week.

If you are wanting to stick 100% on plan during your vacation, follow along to see how I prepped & everything that I ate for the week. 

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THM Beach Vacation Meal Plan

The day that we decided to book a beach condo, I started a THM meal plan. The next day I did a grocery pick up at our local store to work on a little meal prep for the week. 

I planned a few breakfast options, a few lunch options and 7 dinners. The reason that I didn’t do 7 breakfasts is because we don’t mind repeating a couple of breakfasts over a week. For lunches, I like to have a couple of fresh ideas and then we ate leftovers the other times. 

THM Meal Plan Overview

Here are the meals I planned for our THM beach vacation meal plan.

Breakfast
– Sausage Balls
– Oatmeal + Fruit
– Boiled Eggs
– Green Smoothies 
– Yogurt/Berries

Lunch
– Pimento Cheese & Celery
– Charcuterie Board
– Broccoli Salad
– Burgers

Dinner
– Tortilla Pizza
– Grilled Chicken Alfredo with Broccoli
– Shrimp Boil
– Grilled Chicken Fajitas
– Parmesan Crusted Grouper
– Lasagna
– Cheeseburger Salad

Vacation Meal Prep – Before You Leave

Time was very limited for me before we left for vacation. So I wanted to make the most out of my THM Meal prep and the things that I packed from home. 

Here are the things that I did at home: 

  • Made Sausage Balls (2 Batches) & froze
  • Grilled a tray of taco chicken for the fajitas and grilled some lightly seasoned chicken for the Chicken Alfredo Night. Sliced and froze the cooked chicken for easy meals on vacay. 
  • Sliced bell peppers and onions for fajitas and froze.
  • Blended a Zucchini for a chocolate trimtastic cake and froze. 
  • Mixed all dry ingredients for a trimtastic cake and placed in a ziplock bag.
  • Boiled eggs to take with us to eat for breakfast on our drive down. 
  • Made deli meat roll ups on low carb tortillas to eat for lunch on the road. 

THM Beach Vacation Meal Ideas & Portions 

Here is the photo diary portion of this post. You can see exactly what was on my meal every day of my 7 day beach trip. We ate in every night, partly because of COVID and partly because dining out with little kids is not fun!

Please forgive all the paper plates and cell phone photos. I wanted to relax on my trip and dishes and pulling out my camera didn’t fit that bill. 

Also, I don’t always eat so many S helper or planned XO. However, it was vacation and I wanted to live a little. And spoiler alert, I still came home 2 lbs lighter than when I went! Whoo hoo! 

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Day 1 – Travel Day

Breakfast (S): 2 Boiled Eggs, a handful of cashews and some coffee. I guess it was so early that I forgot to take a picture of this meal.

Lunch (S): A Mission tortilla with a Laughing Cow Cheese, a little mustard and deli meat. Mini Sweet Peppers & a couple of pork rinds. All eaten in the car & on the go. 

Roll up Tortilla Wrap (1)

Dinner (S): Tortilla Pizzas and Salad. I wanted something quick and easy after a long 8 hour day in the car. 

Slice of THM S Tortilla Pizza on Mission Carb Balance Tortilla Wrap

Day 2 

Breakfast (S): Sausage balls, Two Good Yogurt & Blackberries 

Sausage Balls & Two Good Greek Yogurt with Blackberries (1)

Lunch (S): Turkey Sandwich on Joseph’s pita with nuts and blueberries.

Joseph's Pita Sandwich with Nuts and Blueberries (1)

Dinner (S): Chicken Broccoli Alfredo over Dreamfields pasta & a big salad with ranch. 

Chicken Broccoli Alfredo with Dreamfields and Salad (1)

Day 3

Breakfast (S Helper): Eggs, Meat Sticks and a piece of sprouted bread with Laughing cow. 

Toast, Egg - Meat (1)

Lunch (S): Charcuterie board with meats and veggies 

Charcuterie Plate (1)

Dinner (E): Shrimp with gold potatoes

Shrimp & Potatoes

Day 4

Breakfast (E): Oatmeal with an apple 

Oatmeal and Apple - E (1)

Lunch (S): Shrimp, Nuts, Mini Peppers and a Mayo/Siracha Dipping Sauce & a Two Good Yogurt with Bake Believe chips for dessert.

Shrimp with Mayo dip & nuts (1)

Dinner (S): Parm Crusted Grouper and a big Salad with Ranch – this was so delicious! 

Parmesan Crusted & Dill Grouper (1)

Dessert (S): Trimtastic Cake with Cream Cheese Vanilla Icing

trimtastic cake with strawberries (1)

Day 5

Breakfast (FP): Two Good Yogurt with 4 small strawberries 

Two Good Yogurt & Strawberries (1)

Lunch (S): Rotisserie Chicken Bacon Ranch Quesadilla on a Low Carb tortilla with Broccoli Salad + Trimtastic Cake & Strawberries

Chicken Bacon Ranch & Broccoli Salad (1) 

Dinner (S): Chicken fajita with grilled veggies on a low carb tortilla with cheese and sour cream.

Chicken Fajitas THM S

Day 6

Breakfast (S Helper): Egg scramble with diced ham, sprouted bread with laughing cow and strawberries.

Egg Scramble - Sprouted Bread (1)

Lunch (S): Leftover grouper, leftover broccoli salad. This was going to be a XO because I’m on vacation and wanted to enjoy a little food freedom but I didn’t end up eating the potato on my plate so it ended up just being an S. 

So funny story. I didn’t not eat the potatoes because my willpower is awesome. I told my husband, “wow these potatoes got super hard overnight in the fridge. It is like they weren’t even cooked.” Uhm – because they weren’t cooked! I forgot that I had chopped the extra potatoes thinking that I would could them the next day for the kids. 

So I put some nice rock hard, uncooked potatoes on my plate! That is one way to avoid your planned XO. 

Leftover Grouper & Broccoli Salad - Keto (1)

Dinner: Palmini Lasagna 

Palmini Lasagna & Salad (1)

Day 7

Breakfast (S Helper): Sprouted toast with bacon and gouda with a couple of strawberries.

Gouda Toast with Strawberries (1)

Lunch (S): Leftover Grouper in a Joseph’s Pita with a Side Salad

Grouper in a Pita with Salad (1)

Dinner (S): Bacon Cheeseburger in a Joseph’s Pita with Pork Rinds

Burger in A Pita (1)

Need more THM Meal Plans? 

Meal Plan 1 

Meal Plan 2

Easy THM Meals With a Rotisserie Chicken

THM Frugal Dinner Meal Plan

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Trim Healthy Mama Weekly Meal Plan For 1/5/20-1/11/20

January 12, 2020 by Stacy Craft Leave a Comment

A Trim Healthy Mama Weekly Meal Plan For 1/5/20-1/11/20 with S, E and FP ideas. 

1-5-20-1-11-20 Trim Healthy Mama Weekly Meal Plan

The weekly meal plan features meals that I personally eat on Trim Healthy Mama.

You can use the Trim Healthy Mama Weekly Meal Plan for 1/5/20-1/11/20 as a guide for meal ideas and portion sizes. 

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Trim Healthy Mama Weekly Meal Plan For 1/5/20-1/11/20

A meal plan with photos of every meal for the week. 

Sunday

Breakfast: Avocado “Toast” On a Wasa Cracker, topped with red pepper. Salami slices and a few grape tomatoes. THM S

Avocado Wasa Toast Breakfast

Lunch: Deli meat, peach cup (rinsed) and a Triple 000 yogurt. THM E 

Lunch meat Triple Zero Yogurt and Peaches

Dinner: Smoked Ribs and Green Fries from my Cooking Through the THM Cookbook journey. THM S

Ribs and THM Green Fries

Monday 

Breakfast: Ezekiel English Muffin, Light Laughing Cow Cheese Wedge, Everything But the Bagel Seasoning, Deli Meat and grapes. THM E

Ezekiel Muffin with Light Laughing Cow Cheese and deli Meat

Lunch: Tuna and half an avocado mixed together, grape tomatoes and Whisps cheese crisps to dip. THM S

Tuna and Cheese Crisps

Dinner: Breakfast for dinner – sausage, scrambled eggs and Cottage Berry Whip from THM cookbook. THM S

Scrambled eggs and pork sausage

Cottage Berry Whip

Tuesday 

Breakfast: Mixed nuts, salami slices and gouda cheese THM S

Nuts - Salami - Gouda

Lunch: 1/2 Lavash Bread wrap with deli meat and avocado, air fryer mushrooms, string cheese and 1/2 Triple 000 with Bake Believe Chocolate Chips. THM S

Lavash Wrap - Air Fryer Mushrooms and Triple 000

Dinner: We ended up going to my mom’s house to eat because by husband was out of town and she was trying to help save my sanity! 

I had planned to cook Salsa Verde Chicken Enchiladas THM S. 

Salsa Verde Queso Drenched Chicken Enchiladas

Wednesday

Breakfast: Triple 000 Vanilla Yogurt with a Tablespoon of Peanut flour and an apple THM E

    

Lunch: Salami Cheese Pepperoncini Bites with microwave steamed brussel sprouts tossed with butter and seasoning. THM S

Pepperoncini Pepper and Salami Bites with Brussel Sprouts

Dinner: Wasa and Parm Breaded Chicken Nuggets THM S

Wasa and Parm Crusted Chicken Nuggets

Thursday

Breakfast: Salami, string cheese, 1/2 Triple 000 yogurt with Bake Believe chips. THM S

Salalmi CHeese and yogurt

Lunch: Salad with leftover Wasa Breaded Chicken Nuggets and ranch. THM S

Salad with Wasa Crusted Chicken Nuggets

Dinner: Smarty-Pants Beef Stroganoff over Zoodles – Read more about it in this week 2 post of cooking through THM. THM S

Trim Healthy Mama - Smarty Pants Stroganoff with Zoodles

Friday

Breakfast: Ezekiel English Muffin, Peanut flour made into PB with a teaspoon of Stevia, 1/2 banana. THM E

Ezekiel English Muffin with Peanut Flour and Banana

Lunch: Protein Packed Deli Meat Roll Up Salad THM S

Protein Deli Roll Salad

Dinner: I ate off plan for a special occasion this night. THM E Chicken Taco Soup was planned. 

Taco Soup with beans - E Meal

Saturday

Breakfast: Zucchini, Smoked Sausage, Egg THM S

Zucchini - Cheese - Sausage- Egg

Lunch: Secret Big Boy (FP) I had a sip of this for breakfast and then saved the rest for a light lunch. My big breakfast kept me very full. 

Choco Secret Big Boy from Trim Healthy Mama Cookbook

Dinner: Pearl’s Chili Topped with Cheese

Trim Healthy Mama Cookbook - Pearl's Chili

Other Trim Healthy Mama Meal Plan Ideas:

Meal Plan for 12/29/19-1/4/20

Meal Plan 1 

Meal Plan 2

6 THM Lunch Ideas for the Work Week

Follow along as I cook through the entire THM cookbook this year!

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