Meal Prep Queens help single mum of nine make a month of meals, snacks & more
Single mum of NINE,ย Melanie Bell won ourย Meal Prep Queensย for a day and ended up with enough food for a MONTH!
The prize was a month worth of food prepared for her plus a huge freezer to store it all in as well as all the tools to continue to put her new skills to use.
Kaitie Purssell and Sascha Farley, our Healthy Mummy Meal Prep Ambassadors, travelled to help outย Melanie and her family.
See below the results of the amazing meal prep day!
Melanie Bell receives aย whole month worth of healthy food
Ourย Meal Prep Queensย Sascha Farley and Kaitie Purssell travelled to meet single mum Melanie and cook a month of meals for her whole family! Mel won a giant chest freezer to store it all, along with pantry and kitchen supplies, prepped food AND leftover ingredients for more!
Budget wise we absolutely nailed it! Mel said she usually spends FOUR TIMES as much on her weekly food shop! WINNING!
Losing over 7st. withย The Healthy Mummy 28 Day Weight Loss Challengeย is something Mel wanted to do for herself and she has never looked back.
She was shocked to see all the food come together at the end of the day and believes she will now be more inclined to do bigger preps as sheโs seen first hand how possible it is with a good plan, simple recipes and some help!
Aroundย 700 meals, snacks and breakfastsย were made ready for the huge family of 10 with plenty left over for aroundย 350+ servesย of otherย Healthy Mummy recipes!
All dinners for the month were prepped and frozen with more ingredients preppedย and ready so Melย can easily throw together of other meals including breakfasts, lunches and snacks using the tips and knowledge Sascha and Kaitie gave her.
Theย 500-litre chest freezer was full to the brim as was the fridge by the afternoon which meant we actually became limited with what else we could prepare!!!
For the meals, we didnโt completely prep we supplied the full ingredient list and ran through an example of each with Mel so she can easily whip things up on the spot, for example, the Pitta Pizzas! We also made sure she had the staples needed in her pantry and the tools and knowledge to keep prepping for her whole family.
Melanieโs winningย story
Melanie is a single mum ofย nine, yes NINE, children Angela (23), Brendan (18), Lilly (17), Kaitlyn (13), Liam (12), Ruby (10), Jack (8), Harry (5) and Oliver (2) and grandmother to two.
When our Meal Prep Queens stepped into Melโs house they said it was truly inspiring! She is a hardworking mother with an amazing attitude, the household runs so smoothly with kids happily helping to the run the house, washing dishes, taking out rubbish and hanging out washing!
Mel often works long days, 6-7 days a week so this Meal Prep Cook Up is a massive deal in her busy life not only logistics wise but a massive financial help too.
Congratulations Melanie!
What Sascha and Kaitie made
Here is a long list of the deliciousness that was tackled throughout the day! There was between 24 and 40 serves of the belowโฆ (recipes marked with an asterisk*areย 28 Day Weight Loss Challengeย recipes that members can access from the recipe hub).
DINNERS
- Chicken Curry Potato Bake*
- Green Mac and Cheese*
- Easy Fried Rice*
- Beef San Choy Bow
- One Pot Spaghetti
- Slow Cooked Asian Chicken
- Chicken Enchiladas
- Easy Pork Curry (Using Chicken)*
- Honey Mustard Drumsticks*
- Beef Nachos
LUNCHES
- Pumpkin and Feta Frittata*
- Easy Courgette and Bacon Slice*
- Lentil Chilli Con Carne*
- Greek Chicken Burger Patties*
- Lamb and Mushroom Burger Patties*
- Greek Beef Burger Patties*
- Marinated Tandoori Chicken*
- Pesto Ricotta Rolls
- Ingredients to make pizzas using pitta bread
BREAKFAST
- Chocolate Rice Crisps*
- Homemade Toasted Muesli*
- Ingredients for
- Cleansing Chia Pudding*
- Overnight Apple Oats*
- Aussie Toast*
- Crunchy Breakfast Trifle*
SNACKS
- Big Batch Choc Chip Banana Bread
- Choc Chip Cupcakes*
- Cookie Dough Bliss Balls
- Peanut Bubble Crunch
- Ingredients for:
End result!
Maintain an overall healthy and balanced eating routine
Ourย 28 Day Weight Loss Challengeย is a family-friendly, breastfeeding-safe program designed FOR MUMS to help them improve their health and lose the baby weight.ย
Every week you are given a different meal plan to follow and eachย month we add NEW recipes to our Challenge Recipe Hub. That way, youโll never get bored and stay on weight loss track while digging into healthy, yummyย recipes. Some mums also choose to add inย Healthy Mummy Smoothiesย to their meal plans, but itโs totally up to you.
Learn more about ourย 28 Day Weight Loss Challengeย HERE.
If you would like a sneak peek at some of the meals, snacks and exercises from theย 28 Day Weightย Loss Challengeย you can download our FREEย recipe packs HERE.
