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Some of my favorite meals during my precontest are as follows:

Meat Stir Fry

Egg white omelets

Protein oatmeal

Sweet Potato Blueberry Pancakes

Lasagna Roll ups

Turkey/Chicken Salad

Ground Turkey Taco Meat

Non Fat Cottage cheese& fruit

Diet leading up to “Peak Week”


 

Meat Stir Fry

5 oz. turkey breast, chicken breast, deli turkey, Top Round London Broil, Fish (Chilean Sea Bass/Red Snapper)

2 oz chopped Sweet potato

¼ c brown rice

used in very small portions (portabella mushrooms, peppers, tomatoes, onions, asparagus, green beans)

1 tsp. Olive oil

1 tbl. Balsamic vinegar

          Pam for the pan

Spray the pan w/ pam and add your olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Heat under low flame to warm up the pan. Add all of your veggies and a couple of minutes later add the meat of choice and brown rice. The meat should be already cooked when being added to the mix. It should cook for no longer than 5 min.

Turkey breast cal=340 (38 g protein, 35 g carbs, & < 6 g fat)

Chicken breast cal=380 (38 g protein, 35 g carbs, & 10 g fat)

Top Round London Broil cal=370 (33 g protein, 35 g carbs, & 11 g fat)

Red snapper cal=323 (31 g protein, 35 g carbs, & <7 g fat)

Chilean Sea Bass cal=(37 g protein, 35 g carbs, & <9 g fat)

Deli turkey cal=(31 g protein, 37 g carbs, & <8 g fat)

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Egg white omelets

          4 egg whites

          2-3 oz turkey, deli turkey, chicken

          handful peppers, onions, tomatoes, mushrooms

          1-2 piece(s) of Alvarado St. Whole grain bread

          1 oz non-fat Kraft cheddar

          1 tbl Peanut Butter

          1 tbl Sugar free jelly

          Pam for the pan

 

Spray the pan with pam, add your 4 egg whites and let them heat up and solidify somewhat. At the same time microwave your meat, cheese, & veggies for 1 min. Toast your bread. Add your meat, cheese, & veggies to the almost cooked omelets. Spread you Peanut Butter and sugar-free Jelly on your toast.

3 oz turkey breast, 2 slices of bread cal=445 (57 g protein, 32 g carbs, & 10 g fat)

2 oz turkey breast, 2 slices of bread cal=420 (50 g protein, 32 g carbs, & 10 g fat)

2 oz turkey breast, 1 slices of bread cal=353 (46 g protein, 21 g carbs, & 9 g fat)

3 oz deli turkey breast, 2 slices of bread cal=445 (52 g protein, 33 g carbs, & 12 g fat)

3 oz deli turkey breast, 1 slices of bread cal=415 (49 g protein, 23 g carbs, & 10 g fat)

2 oz deli turkey breast, 2 slices of bread cal=380 (46 g protein, 33 g carbs, & 11 g fat)

2 oz deli turkey breast, 1 slices of bread cal=361 (43 g protein, 22 g carbs, & 11 g fat)

3 oz chicken breast, 2 slices of bread cal=471 (56 g protein, 32 g carbs, & 13 g fat)

3 oz chicken breast, 1 slices of bread cal=406 (54 g protein, 21 g carbs, & 12 g fat)

2 oz chicken breast, 2 slices of bread cal=434 (50 g protein, 32 g carbs, & 12 g fat)

2 oz chicken breast, 1 slices of bread cal=369 (46 g protein, 21 g carbs, & 11 g fat)

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Protein oatmeal

          1-1.5 scoops of whey protein (vanilla/chocolate)

          ½ c oatmeal

          ½ c strawberries/ ¼ c blueberries/ ¼ of an apple (pick one)

          ½ tbl-1 tbl of peanut butter

 

Heat up oatmeal w/ Peanut butter and fruit for approx 1:30-2 min. Mix up with a spoon and then add your scoop to a scoop and half of your flavored protein.

1 sc/ ½ tbl PB cal=318 cal (31 g protein, 34 carbs, & <7 g fat)

1 sc/ 1 tbl PB cal=368 cal (34 g protein, 35 carbs, & 10 g fat)

1.5 sc/ ½ tbl PB cal=365 cal (43 g protein, 33 carbs, & <7 g fat)

1.5 sc/ 1 tbl PB cal=416 cal (43 g protein, 33 carbs, & <7 g fat)

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Sweet Potato Blueberry Pancakes

          1 egg white

          1 scoop Vanilla whey protein

          1 tbl Peanut Butter

          2 tbl Oatmeal

          2 tbl Blueberries

          1.5 oz Sweet potato already baked

          Pam Spray

          some sugar free maple syrup

 

Mix in a bowl, egg white, peanut butter, oatmeal, sweet potato, until good and blended together. Then fold in the blueberries at the very end. Place into small omellette pan with Pam to line the pan. Cook on one side until it becomes solid enough to flip and evenly cook on the other side.

1 serving whole pancake= 310 calories(35 g protein, 23 g carbs, and 9 g fat)

w/ ½ tbl PB=260 calories(33g protein, 21g carbs, and 5g fat)

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Lasagna Roll ups

          1 Hodson Mills W wheat Lasagna Noodles

          2 oz already cooked Ground turkey breast

          ¼ c tomato sauce

          2 tbl nonfat friendship cottage cheese

          2 tbl nonfat ricotta cheese

          1/4 c nonfat mozzarella cheese

          1/2 tsp olive oil

 

Lay out the noodles, already cooked. Add all of the ingredients in a bowl. After it is all mixed, spread evenly over the noodle and roll it up and put all of them in the cooking pot. Bake at about 300 degrees for 30-40 min.

Each roll up has 260 calories=(35 g protein, 22 g carbs, 3.5 g fat).

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Turkey/Chicken Salad

          1 c mixed greens

          2 tbl Fat-free/carb free dressing

          1 tsp flaxseed oil/olive oil

          veggies consisting of cucumbers, peppers, onions, tomatoes, and

          carrots (small sizes of each portion)

          1 whole apple

          5 oz. deli turkey/chicken breast/turkey breast

 

Mix all of your ingredients in a bowl or large Tupperware container, and try to add the apple to the salad. It really gives the salad flavor and sustanence.

Deli turkey salad cal= 300 (28 g protein, 32 g carbs,& 7 g fat)

Turkey breast salad cal= 305 (35 g protein, 30 g carbs,& 5 g fat)

Chicken breast salad cal= 345 (35 g protein, 30 g carbs,& 10 g fat)

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Ground Turkey Taco Meat

1 packet of ground turkey breast (app 1.3 lbs)

1 packet of low sodium taco mix Old El Paso

Cook and brown if it were beef but you need to whiten it. Then strain the meat into colander to get rid of the fat. Put back into the pan and then add water and mix and let simmer.

Servings

4 oz. ground turkey breast

½ c Old El Paso Refried beans Fat free

1 tsp of olive oil/ flaxseed oil

2 tbl brown rice

1 oz. non fat Kraft Cheddar cheese

1 oz baked Tostitos/ Guiltless Gourmet baked blue chips

cal= 444 (46 g protein, 50 g carbs, & 6 g fat)

cal= no rice=415 (46 g protein, 44 g carbs, & 6 g fat)

use ground top Round Ground cal= 435 (42 g protein, 44 carbs, & 10 g fat)

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Non Fat Cottage cheese& fruit

1 c non fat Friendship cottage cheese

½ c strawberries

½ c blueberries

1 tbl Peanut butter

 

Mix in a bowl w spoon and eat.

Cal w/1 tbl PB= 314 (35 g protein, 26 g carbs, & 8 g fat)

Cal w/ ½ tbl PB= 263 (32 g protein, 25 g carbs, & 4 g fat)

In addition to my supplementation, I will also submit the meals from my last week leading up to the show that I call “Peak Week”. Each day is its’ own spreadsheet.

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