Ready, Set, Challenge!

Hello healthy food bloggers!  I know it's been forever since I put any recipes up here.... but get ready for an overload of healthy planning.  I am about to embark on my second Advocare 24 Day Challenge and aside from keeping track of my progress along the way on my blog this time (which I plan to do) I also decided to share my meal plan.

For anyone that has ever done a 24 day challenge before, Advocare gives a great cookbook full of ideas.  One of the selling points for me about Advocare was that it isn't a set meal plan... You get to choose whatever you want eat within the limits.  Well... for anyone that knows me, I am a Kindergarten teacher and I take pride in my organization and planning skills... sometimes it's to a fault.  On top of that, I find that it's easier to stick to a diet program when you have a plan.  So between being organized but also the hours that I have to put in, being a teacher, I went ahead and planned all of my meals for the 24 day challenge... that way I won't have to worry about wondering what I will eat when I get home and then end up cheating.

This is the Google Doc of my Meal Plan
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0eAYnf1W4h8bFVURFNFYnUxOWs/edit?usp=sharing

Howeever, I didn't just stop there.  You may notice that some of the days have a star next to them.  The star represents a meal that I looked at and could go ahead and prep/freeze so that it's all ready to go from the freezer to the oven to the table!  I'm all about prepping as much as possible so that I don't have to worry about it later.  Ultimately, there were 8 meals I could pre-make and freeze! That's 1/3 of your meals right there!  So next, I created a document with a grocery list with all the ingredients needed for the 8 pre-made meals first and then a Weekly guide with groceries I'd need each week afterward.  This also allowed me to check out the grocery ads for a couple weeks before my challenge arrived so that I could get some ingredients on really good sales (for example... Chicken Breasts went Buy 2 Get 3 Free a couples weeks ago... so we went ahead and stocked up!)

This is the grocery list doc...
 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0eAYnf1W4h8M21Gdi1KaXhiVDg/edit?usp=sharing

Now... it's time to shop.  Soon to come... the meal prep recipes and pictures!