If you haven’t heard about it, KFC is featuring a brand new style of chicken. It’s the “healthier” alternative, the Kentucky Grilled Chicken.
Although this may be a better choice than the undoubtedly fatter fried alternative, it’s still nowhere near being an ideal food choice.
The dream: home cooked, healthy meals – fast food, dollar menu pricing.
Ever heard of a dinner prep kitchen?
A prep kitchen is a facility where most of the prep work that goes into cooking a meal, including the shopping, is done for you. 
All the vegetables are sliced, diced and chopped. The meats rinsed and trimmed and all the spices and seasonings laid out. Your job is to simply log onto the website of the place you are going, and choose from an ever changing menu of dinner options. The facility I took my Elk Grove boot camp ladies to this past weekend, Dinner My Way in Elk Grove (www.dinnermyway.com)- has about 15 meals on the menu each month. Once you reserve a time to prepare your food and decide what you are going to make, all you then need to do is show up and follow the directions given at each of the meal stations to prepare healthy meals up to the point of actually cooking them.
Besides doing all the grunt work for you, another great feature of these types of facilities is that the nutrition information is usually listed right on the website so you can make healthy selections that further you along in your fat loss goals or in your resolve to eat healthier. The average at home cook time for one of these meals is about 15 minutes and the average cost per serving is a very budget friendly $3.50.
Most of the ladies in my Elk Grove Booty Boot Camp had never heard of places like this, or they had, but really didn’t understand how it worked. so I took them on a field trip to see first hand what it is all about. It was a huge hit! All of the women from my busy moms to the single 20-somethings in my boot camp saw a place in their eating plan where an option like this could fill a gap that might have before been filled with unhealthy choices that somehow got them extra burpies in boot camp each week 😉 .
Check out the video I made of our field trip, and then check out a dinner prep kitchen near you.
Stay focused
Sarai D. Jones
As you know by now I highly recommend using the Dramatic Dress Size Reduction Diet during your first 30 days with Booty BootCamp (www.30dayjumpstart.com). Time and again people are seeing amazing results.
Did you know Mary Ann K. from our Elk Grove camp has lost 9lbs during her first 3 weeks? That’s fantastic!
However some of you have chosen to tackle the diet arena on your own and are looking for healthy, affordable and convenient dinner options for you and your family.
One of my favorite convenient, healthy options is a dinner prep kitchen. There are several around; Dinner My Way, Dream Dinners, My Girlfriends Kitchen to name a few. In these prep kitchen all the real prep work has been done for you. All you have to do is assemble the dishes according to your families preferences and store them in you fridge or freezer until you are ready to eat. Most dinners cook up in less than 30 minutes and any that take longer simply need to be thrown in the oven or crock pot, no supervision needed.
But as with any eating out you still must make healthy dinner choices if you want to continue losing body fat at a rapid pace.
What should you look for? Most prep kitchens have the nutrition information listed right next to their choices. Take a look and check for these things:
Fat- Try to stay in the single digits unless the fat is higher due to a healthy fat like Olive oil or from Salmon.
Protein- Look for at least double digits on this one. You need protein to build lean, sexy muscle tone.
Carbohydrates- First what are they from? If it’s white rice or pasta toss it and prepare your meal with a whole grain version. Next you’ll want to consider portion size. The portion size of the pasta or rice is usually far more than you want to be taking in during this last meal of the day. Keep your portions in check and you can drop the calories and carbs considerably. In the end I try to have the carbohydrate count match the protein pretty close. Less is always ok.
Sodium- If you have high blood pressure or want to avoid it try to keep your daily total in check including your dinner selections. 24oo-3000 mg/day is the general guidline
Here are a few of the heathiest choices from this months My Girlfriends Kitchen menu:
Sesame Orange Chicken Tenders- Brown rice instead of white and keep portion at 1/2 cup
Lemon, Thyme and the Steak is Tender- Fat content is a little high but some is from healthy olive oil so we’ll it slide
Siesta Chicken Stew (Slow Cooked)
Shrimp Scampi a la Garlic
Enjoy!
Next post let’s talk about alcohol and fat loss
Stay healthy!
Sarai Jones