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On this episode of Try Living With Lucie, Lucie Fink starts 2018 off fresh with a whole new outlook on food - meal prepping! Lucie shows takes on preparing every single one of her meals for the week in this 5 day challenge with the help of meal prep guru, Alyssa Gagarin. Watch this week's episode to see this tasty challenge go down!  #athomewithme  Meal Prep Containers: Divided Keeper https://fave.co/2Vqnq3o Mr. Lid Food Storage Set https://fave.co/2Vs8li3 Tellfresh Food Storage Pack https://fave.co/2Arrwj6  Cook Book -  http://alyssagagarin.com/  Recipes Used: Chia Pudding Mix 2 cups of coconut milk w/ 1/2 cup of chia seeds.  Add 1/2 tsp vanilla extract.  Add drizzle sweetener of choice (honey, maple syrup etc).  Mix, & pour into individual mason jars and refrigerate.  Might want to consider doubling this for a full week's worth of breakfasts.  Burrito Bowl Cook Rice according to package. Cook Chicken (use cumin, paprika, garlic powder and chili powder). Black Beans (can either just drain and rinse them and add, or cook them in diced red onion with cumin, garlic, chili powder). Salsa. Guac/Avocado. Whatever Toppings you like! (Corn, Romaine, Cabbage, Jalepeno...) Assemble items into tupperware!  Sweet Potato Fries https://youtube.com/watch?v=4byuOh4wOPE&feature=youtu.be  Spiced Roasted Chickpeas: Preheat oven to 400. Drain and Rinse 2 cans of Chickpeas, Dry them (pat with towel). In a large bowl, mix chickpeas with drizzle of olive oil, 1tsp cumin, 1tsp paprika and a pinch of cayenne (if you like it spicy). Bake for 25-35 minutes, shaking them up after 15 mins.  Zucchini Noodles w/ Spinach Pumpkin Seed Pesto: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4byuOh4wOPE  Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Bars: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4DpqARwfWBc http://alyssagagarin.com/recipes1/chocolatechippeanutbutterbars  ABOUT SERIES Try Living With Lucie follows our favorite R29 millennial, Lucie Fink, as she dives headfirst into social experiments — five days at a time. From a week without sugar to full-blown street performing; there is nothing she won't try!   ABOUT REFINERY29  Refinery29 is a modern woman's destination for how to live a stylish, well-rounded life. http://refinery29.com/  RELATED CONTENT 2 Weeks Of Not Washing My Hair Challenge https://youtube.com/watch?v=sPHP-rEz3B0 5 Days Of Only Eating Pizza  https://youtube.com/watch?v=mnrQkORcivA 5 Days Of Going Vegan https://youtube.com/watch?v=i6Xd-MbcWwc  SEE MORE REFINERY29 VIDEOS http://refinery29.com/video  SUBSCRIBE TO REFINERY29 Subscribe to the Refinery29 channel: http://bit.ly/subscribe-to-r29 For the latest trends and videos, visit: http://refinery29.com Like Refinery29 on Facebook: https://facebook.com/refinery29 Follow Refinery29 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/refinery29 Heart Refinery29 on Instagram: https://instagram.com/refinery29/  TALENT Follow Alyssa Gagarin on Instagram: https://instagram.com/alyssagagarin/ Follow Lucie Fink on Instagram: https://instagram.com/luciebfink/

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00:00I'm Lucy Fink and this is five days of meal prep. Hey guys, it's me. Happy 2018!

00:10Welcome back to Try Living with Lucy. If you're new to our YouTube channel, I promise you we are

00:15so fun, so informative, and so entertaining. So you should probably click right here to subscribe.

00:21And if you're a returning subscriber, then welcome back and please give this video a thumbs up.

00:26It's 2018, and I know that a new year always seems to bring that urge to start taking control

00:32of your life, and in my case, to start really being an adult. Because I am one. So I need

00:38to be one. And for me, a major New Year's resolution was to start meal prepping. Before this week,

00:44meal prep looked kind of like this to me. I love pizza. So this weekend, I spent a ton

00:51of time planning and organizing, and then I went out to buy the ingredients for five days

00:55of five servings of food. So for each of the days this week, I've made breakfast, lunch,

01:01a snack, dinner, and dessert. Yesterday on Sunday was my full meal prep day, so I spent

01:07three hours right there in my kitchen preparing everything for the week ahead. And here is

01:11what I made. Chia seed pudding for breakfast. Burrito bowls with a ton of fresh veggies for

01:16lunch. Roasted and seasoned sweet potato fries and chickpeas as a snack. Vegetable noodles with

01:22basil pesto, cherry tomatoes, and shrimp for dinner. And chocolate chip, peanut butter,

01:27chickpea bars for dessert. Yes. Chickpea. Don't worry because each day in this video as

01:33I go through five days of eating the meal prep foods, I'm going to focus on one of the meals.

01:38So either breakfast, lunch, the snack, dinner, or dessert so that I can break down the full

01:42recipe for you, and then also break down my strategy behind everything. I got all of my meal

01:46ideas this week from chef and cooking instructor Alyssa Gagarin, who is a meal prepping goddess.

01:53Through my experience, I've learned all the do's and don'ts of meal prep and have gathered

01:57my top tips for Lucy's meal prep. Woohoo! So tip number one is it's all about strategy.

02:04The total cost of meal prep to cook for one person for a week's worth of food is approximately

02:10$100, depending on what you choose. I spent $107 total on all of the ingredients yesterday,

02:16which, if you divide by five days and five servings of food a day, comes to $4.28 per

02:23dish. Pretty good.

02:26Overall, my first day of eating the meal prep foods went quite swimmingly, if I do say so

02:31myself. I ate my first breakfast chia seed pudding this morning, which was delicious.

02:35I brought all of my lunch bowls to the office and I stored them in the Refinery29 fridge.

02:41Dinner was so easy to compile because all of the individual pieces were in their own containers,

02:45and dessert was obviously delicious because it's dessert. So as I said, because I'm focusing

02:51on one meal a day, today on Monday I'm focusing on my breakfast. Here is how I made that chia

02:56seed pudding. I mixed four cups of coconut milk with one cup of chia seeds, added a teaspoon

03:02of vanilla extract and a drizzle of maple syrup, and then I cut up different types of fruits

03:09to make different toppings so that each day would have a bit of a different flavor. Then I poured

03:14them into individual mason jars, sealed them, and lined them up in my fridge for the week.

03:18Andrew, my cameraman, gave the pudding his final stamp of approval by actually licking the

03:23remainders of it from the bowl.

03:25Stamp of approval.

03:26It was good.

03:29Today I'm sharing the recipe for my lunch burrito bowls.

03:32If you've chosen any recipes with avocados, here's a pro tip for you. Buy avocados of different

03:38ripeness. One that's ripe to use now, one that will ripen in a couple days, and one that has

03:44the entire week to be ripe so that by Friday or Saturday it's perfect for a bold guac.

03:49Following Alyssa's recipe, I made a giant pot of rice, seasoned up the raw chicken with salt,

03:55pepper, paprika, and other spices, chopped up some vegetables like romaine, purple cabbage,

04:00and fresh tomatoes, and then popped open a can of black beans and corn. Once everything was done

04:06cooking, I assembled the burrito bowls into five separate lunch boxes with rice on the bottom and

04:12then the vegetables lined up on top in rainbow order. I know that what's most important is the

04:17way that it tastes, but the fact that it was so beautiful and looked like a rainbow on my plate

04:21didn't hurt at all. I am loving these little boxes that I got for lunch this week because they seal

04:26really tight to lock in the freshness. They're microwavable, they're reusable, and it's only

04:32day two but I'm already starting to notice how meal prep is drastically reducing the amount of waste

04:37that I'm creating throughout the day. And to make this week even more zero waste friendly, I'm using a

04:41set of bamboo kitchen utensils that I got from Lauren Singer's package-free shop in Brooklyn.

04:47Hashtag trash is for tossers. I'm one of those people who cannot go between lunch and dinner without

04:53munching on something. So I decided to make a really healthy snack idea this week but to turn

04:58it very delicious by adding spices and seasoning to it. I got pre-cut sweet potato fries and a couple

05:04of cans of chickpeas and I seasoned them both up with olive oil, salt, garlic powder, paprika, and more.

05:11I put them onto separate trays because they needed to cook for different amounts of time at different

05:15temperatures. That was really tough for me and it was difficult for me to balance the different

05:19temperatures with the different cook times. So at some point I just put them both into the oven

05:23together and decided to eyeball it. Now this is a very important thing to know about meal prep.

05:29From the footage that you've seen so far it probably looks like first I whipped up my chia seed pudding

05:34and then I made all of the ingredients for my lunch and then I moved on to seasoning my snack.

05:39You get the drill. But the truth is that is not how I did this at all. Sunday in my

05:45kitchen was a complete

05:46and utter whirlwind of chaos. I feel like I'm unchopped. How do we want to cook the chicken?

05:51How's my rice doing? Ah! These chickpeas are roasting. Ah! Oh no space! Racing against the clock!

05:59I was running around doing six things at once. I had the rice on the stove while I seasoned the

06:04chicken

06:05and the shrimp. I was roasting up my snacks while I put my chickpea and peanut butter brownies into the

06:09food

06:09processor. A lot of things. A lot of moving parts. Tip number three. When you are choosing your recipes

06:16for the week think of using multiple cooking methods that utilize various different tools so that you

06:23make the most of your time. As I was planning my meals for this week actually I took Alyssa's advice

06:28to heart and I realized how silly it would be if I chose meals that all use the oven or

06:33all needed the

06:34stove top because that would just not be strategic with my time and with my kitchen space. My proteins for

06:39lunch and dinner were cooked on the stove top. The snacks were roasted in the oven. The vegetables

06:44didn't need to be cooked at all. And my dessert was the only thing that needed a food processor.

06:48So you see what I did there. Very smart. Just had my fourth chia seed pudding cup of the week

06:57and

06:57they never get old. They are so good but I was a little bit extra hungry this morning so I

07:03woke up

07:03and I popped in a waffle. It was tough picking a dinner recipe for this week because if I know

07:10anything about myself it's that I really like diversifying the meals I'm having from one day

07:15to the next. And the only exception to this rule is pizza because I could literally eat pizza every meal

07:21every day forever. But sadly I wasn't making pizza this week so that was tough. I needed a dinner idea

07:30that

07:30allowed me to pick and choose different pieces so I could make it differently each night. I got a

07:34vegetable noodle medley made of sweet potato noodles, squash noodles, zoodles, and more. I kept

07:40them raw so they didn't get soggy. I cooked the shrimp with salt, pepper, and olive oil. I made a

07:46basil pesto

07:46and I halved the cherry tomatoes. The first night I made this I just tossed all of the ingredients into

07:52a pan with olive oil, salt, and pepper and I sauteed it up. On the second night I changed up

07:57the flavor a bit by

07:58trying out some different seasoning and spices on top. And tonight I was really not in the mood for

08:03a hot noodle dish. Instead I wanted something cold and refreshing like a salad. So I kept the noodles

08:08raw and crunchy and then instead of the basil pesto I just squeezed some lemon juice on top. And it's

08:13not just my dinner that I'm doing this with. Actually yesterday at lunch I wanted to spice up the burrito

08:18bowl a little bit so I bought a tortilla and I turned the burrito bowl into an actual burrito. And

08:24if I

08:24learned anything about myself from the experience it's that I cannot roll a burrito for the life of

08:29me. But I do have to say that turning the bowl into a burrito made the lunch look, feel, and

08:34taste

08:35completely different. So that was good. Happy Friday everyone! Today I'm sharing the recipe for these

08:43incredible chocolate chip peanut butter chickpea bars. Y'all ready for this?

08:50If you're one of those people who looks at a dessert made of chickpeas and seriously judges it

08:56for what it is, don't. And don't even try to imagine what this tastes like because you just can't until

09:02you try it. And when you do try it you'll see that it tastes like dessert not chickpeas. This is

09:08Alyssa's recipe and oh man, oh man, it was epic. I preheat the oven to 350 and then I mixed

09:15half a cup of

09:16natural peanut butter with one 15 ounce can of drained and rinsed chickpeas. I added two tablespoons

09:22of maple syrup, two tablespoons of honey, one tablespoon of vanilla extract, half a teaspoon

09:27of salt, a quarter teaspoon of baking soda, and a quarter teaspoon of baking powder. I blended this

09:33all up in a food processor until it was smooth and shiny and delicious looking. And then I spread it

09:39into a baking dish and added chocolate chips on top. They baked for 18 minutes exactly and came out

09:52perfectly. I put them in a Tupperware and I had two rows with a piece of parchment paper in between

09:56and then I stored them in the fridge to give them a fudge-like consistency. And in a few hours

10:01I'm going

10:02to have my final serving of dinner and dessert and after that I will have officially eaten all of the

10:07meal

10:08prep foods that I bought and made this weekend. Actually taking the plunge and doing this challenge

10:12calmed my fears about a how long it would take to meal prep everything and b how expensive this would

10:18be. I actually think I saved money this week. Now I want to know some of your favorite meal prep

10:23recipes

10:23and if you've never done this before comment below and let me know if this is something you can see

10:28yourself trying. I would highly recommend it. And as always let me know what you want to see next

10:32time on Try Living with Lucy. Go Lucy, go Lucy, woo! If you're looking for more meal prep recipes,

10:40inspiration, or tips, find me on Instagram, subscribe on YouTube, all at Alyssa Gagarin or my website at

10:46AlyssaGagarin.com. Hey YouTube, thanks for watching five days of meal prep. Click here to watch another

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10:59my personal YouTube channel. See you next time!

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