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- Hey Munchies, welcome if you're new, I'm Alyssia,
and today we are getting ready for the new year.
I hope you had a great Christmas or holiday season.
But the holidays are done now, except for New Years
of course, but that is why it is the perfect time
to plan how you're gonna find success
with your health goals in 2019.
My best recommendation when it comes to eating well
is having healthy food accessible,
and if it's there, you're more likely to eat it, right?
I do that by meal prepping, and I have an entire
course to teach you how to do it called Meal Prepping Night.
We launched the course last year, and we only do
open enrollment twice per year.
But I thought right now would be the perfect
time so that all of us can start 2019 off with a bang.
So enrollment is open today, through Friday January 4th.
After that, it's gone.
In the course, I teach cooking and prep basics,
how to compose balanced meals, storing and labeling
food, how to prep for families and the crux of the course
is teaching my meal prepping night system which takes
you from blank pages to a full prepped plan
with grocery list and prep day map.
We update the course after every enrollment period,
and this time we made the sheets digital,
so it does a lot of the work for you, and saves you paper.
Plus we've added some new content to teach you
how to prep using a microwave,
and some helpful food waste information.
There are also full meal prep video examples
that are not available here on YouTube,
and I've even included three of my best selling meal
prep eBooks for free as part of the course.
If you want access you've got to
head to mealprepignite.com now.
One of the main things I get asked
about on YouTube all the time is
what if I don't want to eat the same thing every day?
You don't have to, I teach that in my course too
and I'm going to share my mix and match tool with you today,
which helps you find new inspiration and ideas.
You can download this printable in the description box
for free, its directly from the course
and it gives you insight on how to switch up meals
as well as a starting point if you
just don't know what to prep.
I'm going to take you through three variations today,
but you're options are endless.
The tool encourages balanced meals focusing on
mixing and matching proteins, vegetables,
carbohydrates, flavors, and a vessel or method of serving.
You can take what you want and leave what you don't.
So if you're keto, simply skip
the carb or make it extra veggies.
If you're doing Whole30, make sure
your flavor combos are compliant, Et cetera.
You can really take it and make it your own,
and it also makes it easier to cook without the recipe too.
The first one I'm showing you today is barbecue
chicken tacos, and I'm going to show it three ways
so you can really get an idea of what you're
capable of when you use this tool.
My protein is going to be rotisserie chicken, I'll use
roast vegetables, sweet potato, barbecue sauce, and tacos.
Choose what you like, and pair what sounds good to you.
Rotisserie chicken is a meal prep favorite of mine
because it's already cooked and tasty.
I pull the meat off the bone and
I've got protein ready to go. I can store it as is
but this week I know I want it barbecue flavor,
so I add some sauce to it, toss, and then store.
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For vegetables, I got Brussels sprouts and sweet potatoes,
raw, prepped, and stored, ready for me to make.
And remember, you can use different cheats
and cooking methods to keep things interesting.
I prefer to store food uncooked when I can
so I can enjoy it fresh during the week
but you can also totally cook it
and then have it prepped, cooked and ready to go.
My best and worst guide for my meal prepping night course is
also super helpful for knowing which
foods will last and which won't.
For today's examples, I'm also roasting up those brussels
sprouts and sweet potatoes that I've just tossed
with a little oil and seasonings of choice.
Remember, you could use any vegetables.
So now, we can get creative with how to throw this together.
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One, I can enjoy rotisserie barbecue chicken tacos with a
side of roasted brusselss sprouts and sweet potato wedges.
Two, I can enjoy all three of them together in a taco.
Three, I can enjoy the chicken and Brussels sprout tacos,
with a sweet potato mash on the side.
I simply mash up cooked sweet potatoes, you could just use
the cubes, or roast the potatoes whole.
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Peel them, and toss with a splash of milk and seasonings.
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Three easy preparations from one mix and match combination,
and there are so many more things
you could do with this too. Okay.
Next let's try canned tuna, spinach, a cold quinoa salad,
pesto, and serve it as a salad, a pesto tuna salad.
I do have a little bit of intention when I picked these
things but you could totally do it random
and make it work too.
There's no right or wrong. All that matters is that you
pick something that you like to eat.
First, I drain the tuna and toss with pesto.
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Separately, I toss some cooked and cold quinoa with spinach.
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I store those in a two part container
and add a lemon wedge to the salad section for an easy,
portable and healthy dressing,
and some red pepper flakes to the tuna.
My prep is ready to go.
My greens aren't going to get mushy
because the aren't dressed, and when I'm ready to enjoy,
I can add the pesto tuna onto the salad,
or dump it into a separate bowl.
I can squeeze that lemon and add a bit of olive oil
for dressing, it's simple, tasty, fresh flavors
and it's waiting for me when I need it.
And man, can we just acknowledge how easy that prep was?
Mix and store. Last one for now.
I'm going with beans, finely diced veggies,
corn, salsa, and pita for an easy
southwestern vegetarian pita.
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See what I'm doing there? I'm just giving a name
to all the stuff we're going to throw together.
There is no magic to it, I swear.
I saute some diced onions and green bell
pepper and oil as my diced veggies.
After a few minutes when their tender,
I add canned beans and corn that I've drained and rinsed.
Another minute or two later, I add some salsa,
cumin and cilantro for extra flavor.
It's ready to store, or eat of course.
Meals like this make for easy prep
because they all get mixed together.
You just add it to your pita and eat
and you can enjoy hot or cold.
And if you're thinking, Alyssia, I want a side dish,
think of how easy it is to take one of those components
and separate like we did in the first example.
I could roast up some bell pepper vegetables
and serve them on the side of my pita instead.
The problem with following someone else's meal plan
is that it will never be exactly
what you want and what you like to eat.
So my goal with this course is to give you the tools,
the education, and the confidence
to get in the kitchen and make what you like to eat.
If you're making what you like and making it accessible
because you cooked it in advance then staying healthy
is going to be so much easier, I promise.
I wanna see you all reach your health goals this year,
and I wanna help you do it as a student
in my meal prepping night course.
For information, head over to mealprepignite.com
and remember that enrollment is limited
and closes in a week.
My recommendation is to get a jump on it
before the new year even begins.
We also have a money back guarantee,
so if you try out meal prepping
using my system for three weeks and it doesn't work,
we'll refund you.
It is work, and it can be intimidating,
but it can also make your life so much easier,
and save you money in the long run.
Thanks for being here today, I hope you found
this video useful, whether or not you enroll.
Remember you can get the mix and match sheet for free
using a link in the description.
Announcement, I will actually see you on Tuesday
January 1st cause I have a special
kickstart series coming to you in January.
We have been working for months trying to get it ready
and we're going to have a new video
here on YouTube every weekday in January.
So Monday through Friday you will get a new piece of content
as inspiration to kickstart your year.
Some of it is very different than
anything we've shared before,
and we couldn't be more excited to share it with you.
So, subscribe, hit the bell so you don't miss anything.
I will see you on Tuesday, and remember,
It's all a matter of mind over munch.
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