Easy Smoked Chicken Breasts
Smoked chicken breasts are so easy to make on a pellet grill or smoker! Pull out your Traeger or Camp Chef and make some of this delicious on any weeknight. It also makes a great meal prep option, too!
One of my favorite things to do is meal prep, or ingredient prep. I pick one day during the week and devote an hour or two to prepping vegetables, protein, and some sauces or spice blends to have on the ready for easy meals later!
I included some of my favorite, versatile meats, legumes, vegetable sides and heartier salads that last several days in the fridge.
And you can’t meal prep without throwing in a treat or two.
Everything Chicken Tenders (Air Fryer or Oven)
These delicious chicken tenderloins are tossed in a gluten-free breading with everything bagel seasoning and cooked in an air fryer for just 10 minutes! Super tender and tasty, these chicken strips can be baked in the oven, too, and are great with your favorite dipping sauces. I don’t normally buy chicken tenders, but I got …
13 Best Grilled Chicken Recipes
I have a thing for grilled chicken. Probably because chicken is such a fantastic blank slate! You can use just about any seasoning or flavor profile and it’ll turn out great. Here are all of my favorite grilled chicken recipes in one handy post for you! I’ll continue to add to this as I add …
Sweet Potato Hash with Chorizo (Paleo)
This paleo sweet potato hash is easy to make and flavored with spicy turkey chorizo! This is one of my favorite breakfast recipes and also doubles as a tasty taco or burrito filling! It also makes a great meal prep recipe and warms up beautifully for a healthy meal the next day or a make …
Baked Pesto Chicken & Vegetables
Sheet pan meals are some of my favorite weeknight dinners! This baked chicken pesto sheet pan meal is super versatile, too — swap out the veggies, use your favorite kind of pesto, or just make a big batch of pesto chicken only for some meal prepped protein!
Egg Roll in a Bowl with Sriracha Mayo
Egg Roll in a Bowl has become pretty popular lately! I’ve been making these for a few years, but for some reason never posted it. My kids LOVE these bowls. They’re on our family’s “favorite dinner list” — a very exclusive list of only unanimously voted recipes that we all love. I always hear “YAY!” …
Why Ingredient Prep Will Make Your Life Easier
This post is in partnership with Fresh Menu Kitchen. All opinions shared are my own. Ingredient prepping has become one of my favorite hacks to save time in the kitchen during the week! It’s not exactly like meal prepping, which is cooking entire main dishes and sides to serve during the next few days — …
Instant Pot Shredded Beef with Green Chile
My goal for this recipe was to create an Instant Pot shredded beef recipe for taco night that didn’t have any chopping involved. Taco night has enough chopping and component prep as it is. I mean the guac? Shredding cheese? Chopping lettuce? Making ranch? (Yes, ranch. Because 80% of the time we’re actually eating taco …
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