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January 26, 2009 By 4Admin01

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

The Starbucks Diet

September 23, 2008 By 4Admin01

So my post on http://twitter.com/BootyBootCamp (if you’re not following me, please do) where I mentioned drinking a Starbucks Vivanno caught a lot of attention from my Booty Boot Camp girls.

You wanted to know if it was “ok” to drink when you are on the go without sabotaging your fat loss efforts. I was pretty sure I had remembered the nutritional facts correctly but I wanted to double check so here it is.

It turns out that the between the two flavors; Chocolate-Banana and the orange-mango-banana, the chocolate-banana Vivanno is the better choice (which makes me happy because I think it tastes the best). Even though it has 20 more calories (270 compared to 250) and a little more fat (5g vs 2g), it also has a less carbs, less sugar and more protein, so overall this is my pick.

They both have 6g of fiber (about 25% of your recommended intake) which explains why they keep you full for a long time.

You can also add a shot of espresso to the chocolate-banana or a shot of matcha to the orange-mango-banana but beware, while the espresso does not do much to the nutritional value of the chocolate-banana (it brings everything down a gram or two) the matcha sends the orange-mango-banana into the unsuitable category. The one shot adds 40 calories, 10g carbs and 10g of sugar.

So while I would rather have you drinking a vivanno instead of eating a starch loaded sub-way sandwich with very little protein or some greasy fast food option, I still want you to be aware of the fact that these
drinks do contain a higher amount of sugar than you want to take in on a normal everyday basis. Most of this is due to the fruit content but if you are trying to reduce the fat on your body, keeping your blood sugar stable is key, and too many sugar loaded meals can keep you spiking and crashing for hours thus slowing down your fat burning process.

A couple of tips to bring down the calories and sugar even more would be to substitute non-fat milk
for the regular 2% and ask for 1 or 2 less pumps of the bittersweet cocoa used in it.

My best tip: Be prepared. I would say 9 times out of 10 you know if you are going to be working late or on the road for more than an hour or two. Pack your little cooler with a healthy high fiber, low sugar, protein
packed meal that you can eat on the go and save the vivannos for a treat. I’ll take my own advice and lay of the starbucks. 🙂

Sarai Jones

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