My #1 Favorite Meal to Prep

Kyle Nitchen
One Life
Published in
3 min readJun 10, 2016

Whenever the topic of meal prep comes up, at some point in the conversation I’ll hear something like:

“I just can’t eat the same thing every day, it doesn’t taste good, it gets boring.”

But do you know what tastes better than food? Success.

Finding good advice on meal prep or nutrition is a pain in the butt. There is just so much B.S. to filter through. Most meals have a complicated list of ingredients and take over an hour to prep. That’s why I’m sharing a cheap, easy, and tasty meal for you to try.

I published this post for the people that eat to perform. Perform at work, perform in the gym, perform with your friends, perform at life. It’s all about performance.

People like us need to conserve all of our time and energy to focus on climbing the mountain.

If you want to get big results, your priorities should be performance first and then physique.

Favorite Meal: The Mixed Vegetable Taco Bowl

Cook Time: 40 minutes

Breakdown: 50 P / 35 C / 20 F: 800~ calories

Cost: 5 meals @ $4.00 / Meal

Ingredients:

  1. Grass-Fed Organic Ground Beef (Protein)
  2. Mixed Vegetables — Broccoli, Cauliflower, Carrots (Veggie)
  3. Quinoa (Carb)
  4. Kerry Gold Unsalted Grass-fed Butter (Fat)
  5. Shredded Cheddar Cheese (Fat, Protein)

Directions:

  1. Cook plain quinoa by boiling water and stirring. Follow easy directions on box.
  2. Buy a frozen bag of organic mixed vegetables. Cook via boiling water — 10 minutes until vegetables are ready.
  3. Cook ground beef in skillet until meat is brown and cooked.

Serving:

  1. At time of eating sprinkle cheddar cheese over meat.
  2. Slice 1 tbsp of Kerry Gold butter.
  3. Microwave 3–4 minutes, add Sriracha sauce, and eat.

Bonus things to know:

Macronutrients — referred to as “macros” is a type of food. Macronutrients are those nutrients that the body needs in large amounts. These provide the body with energy (calories). There a four different macronutrients: Proteins, Fats, Carbs, & Veggies.

The PFV Rule — If your goal is staying lean/lose weight, you should focus on the PFV (Protein, Fat, Veggie) diet. If you would like to gain weight and size, you should focus on the PFV + C diet.

Micronutrients — Micronutrients are those nutrients that the body needs in smaller amounts. Micros are mainly made up of vitamins, minerals, etc.

The best way to learn nutrition is to start logging and tracking what you eat usingMyFitnessPal.

So as of lately, the taco bowl has been my favorite. I hope you enjoy it too. If you know of a great recipe, let me know in the comments because I want to give it a shot.

Over AND Out,

NITCH

KYLENITCH.COM

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