1 Hour Meal Prep for The Dog Days of Summer

Gonna admit it. Meal prepping this weekend did not sound appealing. It’s hot. But I have to eat, and I I have to stay accountable and on track. I don’t want to end up buying my food all week, and I don’t want to wing it with leftovers. Both of those choices will lead to self sabotage for me.

Yesterday I went to my Salad Bowl board on Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/marshaleeg/salad-bowl/ and found this perfect, kind of “dump” salad prep from WW.com. You know what a “dump” recipe is – almost no cooking, almost no chopping, mostly dumping from cans or bags. Don’t have an ego about this. It’s 2020. Take advantage of healthy low calorie/ low or 0 point/ low fat convenience foods. Here is what I found. So perfect: White Bean- Tuna Pasta Salad https://www.weightwatchers.com/us/recipe/white-bean-tuna-pasta-salad/. It has all of the elements that I enjoy in a 1 dish lunch. And it’s basically a “dump” salad. This is not a flavor combo I am used to making, so I followed the dressing part of recipe to a T, as I wanted to make sure the flavors were balanced. Here are the changes I made, and honestly, these were mostly based on convenience: I used 10 oz of tuna instead of 12 oz, I used the whole can of white beans, and I cooked 1 cup of pasta instead of the 1/2 cup the recipe called for because when I measured it out, it just looked sad to me.