Diestel Turkey

Summer weekends, they’re rad right? Full of hangin’ out with our fav people + maybe some short trips out of town. I love this stuff!

In fact Noah and I just took a road trip last weekend. Here’s us at a rest stop

What I don’t love is coming home Sunday eve and dreading Monday. Ugggghh.. seeing all I have to do for the rest of the week makes me wanna throw a tiny fit like a tired 5 year old.

But that never helps, right!?

That’s why I came up with this ONE SUPER SIMPLE trick that takes just one hour and totally takes away all my stress and dread for the busy days to come.

All ya gotta do is NOT melt to your floor, sofa or bed. Grab your keys, your wallet and get going with these THREE STEPS. In one hour you’ll be so F’ing happy!

STEP 1. Go to your nearest Healthy Grocery Store and buy this:

Grocery List

Fresh Pre-Packed greens ORGANIC GIRL is great – 4 bags or plastic boxes ( bout 30-40 ounces)
2 red bell peppers (or broccoli, green peas, red cabbage)
Annies Salad Dressing. I love the “Woodstock” one – a healthy thousand island w/tahini!
1 red onion
1 package sliced Diestel Turkey
2 cans water packed tuna – Wild Planet is best
3 stalks celery
1 carton eggs
2-4 high quality sausages – any meat, so long it’s grassfed, free range
organic mayonnaise if you don’t have any at home
Primal Island Granola OR Purely Elizabeth Granola
Goat milk yogurt – plain. Redwood Hill is great!
Acorn Squash ** optional (bake acorn squash as a dinner side, if you like)

Step 2. Go Home and Do This

Cook the below 5 recipes (takes 15 mins) – 45 mins if you want the baked acorn squash

All recipes will set 1 person up for 3 days.

Cooked Greens Recipe.

peel and thinly slice 1/2 red onion. Put a large pan on your stovetop with 2 tbsp EVOO.
add onion slices and let cook for 2-3 mins on low-med heat.
Add loose, cleaned greens and toss for 2-3 mins.
Add 2 tsp mustard powder

Remove and put in tupperware container OR enjoy some now:)

Cooked Sausage – Your fav meat. GRASS FED 2-4 sausages.

Fill a large pot with water and bring to a boil
Once boiling toss in sausages
Let cook for bout 6 mins.
Remove – either pick out with fork – or use a colander to drain
Slice in half
In a large pan, put 3 tbsp EVOO.
Put sausages in pan and cook another 2 mins/ side
Remove, store in container in fridge till you want them. Last up to 4 days:)

Eggs

Fry and egg! Heat up small pan with 1 tbsp EVOO on med heat. cook one whole egg on med heat. turn after white is solid white around yolk, bout 2 mins.

** cook this right before you eat. Perfect on top of greens w/ half a sausage

Baked Acorn Squash w/ Molasses

Preheat oven to 425 F
Cut 1 squash in 1/2. Place in large pyrex dish – face down, so fleshy side down
Add 1/4′ of water. Let cook for 35 mins
with 10 mins remaining – flip squash over and drizzle 1 tsp molasses in each 1/2
return to oven and cook another 10 mins

Remove and enjoy/ And or store in fridge to enjoy later.

Make Tuna Salad:

Open and drain 3 cans tuna.
Put in a large bowl with 2 tbsp mayo and 1/3 cup plain yogurt.
Slice 3 stalks celery and add to bowl
Mix well and store

Green Salad

Put rest of greens in a large bowl-

Add one brightly colored veg (red bell pepper, green peas, broccoli, red cabbage etc..)

pair 1/2 cup Tuna salad above OR 3 slices Diestel Turkey (below)

Add a great Dressing! I love Annies

STEP 3. Pack It Up!

Take out 3 medium tupperware containers (per day) fill with this:

First container = 1.5 cup salad greens + 1/2 cup tuna mix

** add walnuts, sunflower seeds and Annies dressing – bout 1 tbsp for extra deliciousness.

Second container= fill with 1 cup yogurt or non dairy milk

Pre pack snack ziplock bags (2/day) with this:

Gluten Free Granola in one bag per day
Sliced Deli Meat in one bag/ day – bout 2 slices Diestel

Roll easy through your week with this..Pack 3 lunch bags with exactly this:

1 container yogurt
1 bag cereal
1 container tuna and greens

Salad Greens with Annies dressing + 2-3 slices Diestel turkey
1 plastic fork & 1 plastic spoon

So that will get you through your busy days with great foods to grab!

need some snacks to get you through?

Toss in a perfect bar AND a packet of nut butter.

Have HALF of either one when very hungry. Enjoy the 0ther 1/2 when hungry again:)

Now dinner= EASY. Will take 2, MAYBE 3 mins
Reheat the greens
Add a sausage or deli meat
Add an egg on top
maybe some avocado

Add 1/2 that baked acorn squash if you need more. Great with grassfed buffalo milk butter and cinnamon, or Ghee and cinnamon:)

BAM – there’s dinner

This all will save you tons of time and money and for sure keep your energy up, so you can be more awesome at all you do!

Hope you love this Set UP, It’s kept me from set backs after trips for years!!

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Warm Cabbage with Mushrooms

3 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp gomasio
5 cloves garlic
1 lb crimini mushrooms ( other varieties are great as well)
1 lb Napa cabbage
Directions
heat coconut oil in a large pan. Add garlic let cook for 2-3 mins. Add Mushrooms and let saute for 4-6 mins on med heat. Add cabbage and gomasio cook for 3-4 mins.
(lasts for up to 5 days)

Galen’s Kid Friendly Sweet Potato w/ meat and poblano relish* (relish optional)

Ingredients

2 poblano peppers, halved lengthwise and seeded
2 cups multicolored cherry tomatoes, halved
3/4 cup thinly vertically sliced red onion
5 tablespoons olive oil, divided
2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
1/2 teaspoon pink himalayan salt

3 roasted sweet potatoes cooked
TO COOK :
Preheat oven to 425 – wrap in foil and let cook for 45 mins.

6 ounces cooked meat (sausage or cooked boneless rotisserie chicken breast, shredded and warmed) OR cooked breakfast sausages below!
2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro

Directions
Preheat broiler to high.
Place poblano peppers on a foil-lined baking sheet; broil 8 minutes. Wrap in foil; let stand 10 minutes. Peel and coarsely chop. Combine peppers, tomatoes, onion, 2 tablespoons oil, juice, and salt in a bowl.
Reheat sweet potatoes.
Top sweet potatoes with cooked protein and relish!

Savory Breakfast Sausage

3 tbsp olive oil
1 pound ground beef or lamb
1 garlic clove, minced
3/4 teaspoon dried marjoram
1/2 teaspoon dried fennel, crushed
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1 1/2 teaspoons pink himalayan salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 large egg white

Directions
Mix together the meat, garlic, marjoram, fennel, nutmeg, salt, and pepper in a medium bowl. Add the egg white and combine thoroughly.
TIP! rinse hands in cold water to more easily form patties. With your hands shape each ball of meat into about a 2 inch thick patty. You can cook them immediately or keep in freezer for up to 3 days and cook each AM
OR – Freeze and defrost later to use.
Heat a skillet over high heat, add oil. Cook sausages on both sides until cooked through – bout 3 mins/ side ( check center for no pink)
Sausage patties can be fully cooled, wrapped, and frozen for microwave reheating.

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