Bai's Bowls #2: Baja Edition
$50 and 90 minutes for meal prep? Oh yeah. 🚀✌️
Welcome back to another week filled with tasty eats and feeling your best. 🦄 I am blown away by the response from our first week of Bai’s Big Ass Bowls and had so many messages with requests, suggestions, comments and love for what we’re doing here!
As a reminder, this is a brand-new series dedicated to creating a week’s worth of delicious, budget-friendly, seasonal plant-based bowls in under 2ish hours! Each bowl is crafted with a variety of nutrient dense ingredients—including hearty proteins, vibrant veggies, and powerhouse grains—to ensure you never get bored or tired throughout the week. You’ll love the flexibility of mixing and matching different elements to suit your cravings, with options to add extra proteins or toppings as you desire.
We’ll be posting these every other week (On Thursday or Friday), so you’ll have plenty of time to stop at the store, meal prep, and have everything ready for the next work week! You’ll find the complete grocery list, recipes for each element, and even a prep how-to to make the most of your time to master the art of multi-tasking in the kitchen.
My goal with this series is to transform the way you look at meal prep, using ingredients you already have while getting confident sticking to your budget. Every other week we’ll have a different vibe, and use different ingredients so you’ll never get bored and will always have a fridge full of delicious things to eat. It’s self care… in the form of food!
This week’s mix is:
(2) Proteins: Crispy Shredded Tofu + Refried Black Beans
(2) Grains//Carbs: Cilantro & Lime Brown Rice + Home Fries
(2) Veggies: Sweet Potato and Mushroom Chorizo + Steamed Broccoli
(2) Greens: Shaved Kale and Micro Greens
(2) Sauces: Creamy Salsa Verde and Spicy Crema
(1) Toppers: Chili Crunch
What you can make throughout the week with this one meal prep:
Black Bean & Tofu Tacos
Breakfast Bowls with Home-fries
Potato and Chorizo Nachos
Taco Salads
Mini Bean Burritos with Chorizo
Rice Bowls with Broccoli and Tofu
Chili Crunch Fried Rice with Tofu
Kale Salad with Tofu and Creamy Verde Dressing
One of the most frequent questions I received was for tips to stay in budget. I tend to look at inventory from a chef’s perspective (can’t help it 🤪 ) and I honestly think doing the same from your end will help you drastically change the way you look at food and budgeting. I may do an entire post on this alone, so if you want me to go into more detail with links - I’d be happy to - just leave a comment! Keep reading for the budgeting tips, the grocery list, the timing sheet and the recipes!