Here’s this week’s lineup! The feature food is tofu!
I didn’t grow up eating tofu and truth be told….the idea of eating?….. it used to make me squeamish! Objectively I knew that it didn’t have a strong taste like but, for whatever reason, the idea of tofu weirded me out.
It wasn’t until I had my first son that I started to like tofu! I fed it to him as a baby because a) I wanted to introduce him to soy… b) It’s an incredibly convenient food for babies. You just have to slice it and serve it!… and c) It’s a good source of iron, which is a key nutrient for babies!
To my great surprise, he LOVED tofu (and still does now at 8 years old!)
That was when I knew I needed to learn to like it because I wanted to keep up my son’s love for tofu! I experimented with a couple of lentil dishes and I’ve mainly stuck with the quinoa encrusted tofu, pad thai, (both found in this week’s meal plan), and the dish we eat on the regular in our house, this crispy oven baked tofu!
KITCHEN TIP: If the spongey texture of tofu is what gets you, then make sure to a) buy extra firm and b) press it for about 30 minutes before cooking to remove some of the moisture!
Grocery Shopping List
This Week’s Lineup!
If you have an hour or two on the weekend to take some time to prep parts of your meals, then you can get dinner on the table so much faster during the week! Here are some meal prep ideas:
1. Chop your veggies
Chop your veggies and then place each meal’s worth of veggies in a ziploc bag.
Sheet Pan Chicken Fajitas: Slice the bell peppers and the onion into strips.
Spicy Pork with Mangos and Rice: Cut the onion, red peppers, and mangos/peaches.
Easy One Pan Pad Thai: Slice the onions and shred the carrot.
2. Prepare your sauces
Prepare the fajita oil for the Sheet Pan Chicken Fajitas.
3. Prepare your protein
Sheet Pan Chicken Fajitas: Cook the black beans.
Quinoa Encrusted Tofu Parmesan: Press, cut, and store the tofu in a sealable container in the fridge. Cook the quinoa.
Spicy Pork with Mangos and Rice: Slice the pork (freeze pork before to ease the process) and place it in a sealed container in the fridge.
Easy One Pan Pad Thai: Slice the chicken or pork (if not using shrimp) and press and dice the tofu.
Happy meal prepping!
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