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To make shopping easier, stock up on apples, dried fruit, figs, couscous, olive oil, oats, pita, whole wheat bread, and all the salad fixings at the beginning of the week.
A lot of these snacks can be prepared ahead of time such as hummus, roasted chickpeas, hard boiled eggs, tuna salad, and a good salad base. Meal planning will be easiest if you can manage to organize and prep at the beginning of your week. At the very least, if you know of some very busy days in your schedule, try to do as much of the prep work for dinner as possible ahead of time the day before. You can also pack lunches to go the day before.
To save money, make your own hummus and salad dressings from scratch at home. Making these yourself, you will also have more control of the ingredients and nutrition facts.
If you don’t like a particular fruit for a snack or in your oatmeal, switch it out with something you do enjoy.
Most of these meals stick to roughly the same calorie count, so although this is a 7-day plan based on the consumption of 1,200 calories per day, you can switch some of these meals to other days of the week to get a taste you prefer.
