Weekly dinner menu + weekly goals

I’m getting a late start today, but as promised, I wanted to share my weekly dinner menu as well as some goals for this week. I plan to keep dinners pretty simple around here over the next few days, but I find those are the meals other people are looking for as well, so worth the share!

WEEKLY DINNER MENU 

• Monday: Matt was out of town yesterday, so I kept it simple with Hilary’s veggie burgers on top of black beans + brown rice seasoned with cumin, salt, and pepper (also, some chopped onion and pepper added in)
• Tuesday: I just finished prepping the chicken for tonight’s dinner- we’ll be having sesame chicken over brown rice with edamame, onion, and peppers added in (I call it sesame chicken only because I’ll be sprinkling sesame seeds on top of it- I have no other creative name).

{Here’s the marinade I used for 2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts:

• 1/4 c coconut aminos
• 1 tsp honey
• Juice of 1/2 lime 
• 1/4 tsp ginger powder (certainly you can use real ginger, I’m just keepin’ it simple)
• 2 garlic cloves minced 

*Sometimes I add a little extra garlic powder, but I love garlic, so you know…tread lightly.

Whisk the ingredients together so everything is mixed well. Place chicken in a Ziploc bag and pour marinade over (I didn’t have gallon-sized bags, so I put the chicken into individual bags). Marinate for a couple of hours before baking. This is the same marinade I’ll pour on top of my salmon as well 🙂 You can make double the marinade and only use half on your protein, saving the other half to top on brown rice, cauliflower rice, veggies etc.}

• Wednesday: Lentil pasta with marinara
• Thursday: Shrimp tostadas (I still have leftover tostadas from last week, so I figured I’d use them up and make one more round!)
• Friday: TBD

And now, a few goals for the week:

• 4-5 Pure Barre classes
• Meditate 5x
• Read for at least 20 minutes each night (I’m currently reading A People’s History of the United States)
• Swap out carrots for chips as my pre-dinner snack. Since I often get home late, I literally b-line to the chips and go to town while I prepare dinner, and while I will never (I repeat, never) give up chips, I know I can occasionally substitute in some veggies, at least during the week.
• Take 1 Epsom salt bath (good for the muscles)

There ya have it! Anyone else working on specific goals this week? Have a fabulous rest of your Tuesday all!