Check out this very detailed write up on Kale! (We add Kale to all our meals by default!) Thanks to Happy Happy Vegan for this educational article! (Click on the link below) https://happyhappyvegan.com/kale/ [ ... ]

Meal Prep Delivery Detroit

  We deliver healthy meal prep to the Detroit area.  All of our fresh meal prep meals are lined with Kale on the bottom, and there is a good reason.  Kale is a high fiber, super healthy green great for aiding in digestion and providing high amounts of essential vitamins. Check out the link below for some of the benefits of Kale! https://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-4408/Top-10-Health-Benefits-of-Eating-Kale.html     [ ... ]

Healthy Meal Prep Delivered in Metro Detroit - Oakland, Macomb, Wayne County

  Want to spend more time and energy at the gym and less in the kitchen cooking? We're here to help with that!  Don't give up your valuable exercise time to prep meals or give up your meal planning time to exercise. We all have a choice of how to spend our time, so let's make the most of it and optimize both! A recent study suggested Americans (due to ever increasing schedule demands) face a choice in time spent:  Make a healthy dinner, or head to the gym. [1] We're here to serve you!  Check out our menu and let us do the meal prep for you!  We offer healthy selections and deliever our meals across metro Detroit!

[1]People sacrifice workout time for healthy meal prep, study says (link below)

  https://www.today.com/health/people-sacrifice-workout-time-healthy-meal-prep-study-says-1C9324824   [ ... ]

Meal Prep Delivery

There are many benefits to meal prepping.  Here at the LoCal Kitchen we're here to save our customers time, money and hassle by providing fresh healthy meals delivered in the metro Detroit area. Nowadays, everyone has a busy schedule to keep up, and unfortuntely for some this can lead to eating on the run and some less than healthy eating habits. By getting your meals setup for the week you can avoid the accidental calorie override from getting a quick "take out" meal that adds lbs to the scale.  Have your meals planned out and enjoy a healthy balance of what you enjoy to keep your body fueled during the hectic day to day. A recent post from Harvard Nutrition News lists the following benefits: Some benefits of meal prep: [1]

• Can help save money
• Can ultimately save time
• Can help with weight control, as you decide the ingredients and portions served
• Can contribute to an overall more nutritionally balanced diet
• Can reduce stress as you avoid last minute decisions about what to eat, or rushed preparation

[1] - https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/2017/03/20/meal-prep-planning/ We can definitely help you get set for meal prepping.  Visit our menu and our you meal choices!  They are freshly prepared with quality hand picked ingredients.  Order by Friday at midnight and have you meals delivered to your door on Sunday.   The LoCal Kitchen Metro Detroit Meal Prep Delivery [ ... ]

Meal Prep Delivery Detroit No Added Preservatives

All of our meal prep meals are free of added preservatives.  We only serve fresh never frozen products, serving the metro Detroit area!   A large study suggests that increasing consumption of ultra-processed foods — such as soda and sugary drinks, instant noodles, packaged snacks, and some reconstituted meats — may be linked to a proportional rise in cancer risk.   Link to article : https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/320932.php [ ... ]

Sweet Potato Skins

So Thanksgiving is over and I don’t know about you but I am eager to get my eating back on track and keep the pumpkin pie out of my mouth but I can’t resist the temptation of wanting something sweet and to have the aroma of something baking in the oven. Sweet potatoes are my go to in our house. I have never met a sweet potato that I didn’t like hahaha! But seriously, sweet potatoes can be baked, roasted, grilled, mashed, pureed or even an added ingredient to recipes to maintain moisture. I mean the possibilities are limitless when it comes to sweet potatoes. Growing up, at every holiday my Aunt Iretta would make candied sweet potatoes (not sure if they were canned or fresh). With every bit of 500 calories per heaping spoon full and although I am not knocking this Holiday tradition, you know the good ole days, when you can eat whatever whenever you want and not be concerned with your annual health assessment, it wasn’t until my adult years that I understood that all the years of not understanding the importance of nutrition had caught up to me and I was one bag of chips away from obesity. I reached out in March 2016 to a personal friend who also is a personal trainer Ahdi Dausqi. Although my diet needed a complete overhaul the one thing he suggested was adding a sweet potato to my daily diet. Hold the phone! All I could think of was my aunt’s sweet bubbling marsh mellow topped cinnamon whipped sweet potato heaven and while my mouth is watering I heard him say and not candied yams a real sweet potato. I responded of course, who would think you could eat that hahaha. So no butter no marsh mellow jeez he meant business, but this was the reality check I needed so for dinner that night I decided to add a baked sweet potato. I wrapped a cleaned sweet potato in foil and baked it. I still have this date written down, you know the date I fell in love with guilt-free sweet potatoes. Ok, Ok get on with the “Sweet” Potato Skin recipe.

Sweet Potato Skins Recipe

4 Whole sweet potatoes cleaned and halved lengthwise

8 ounces softened cream cheese

1 whole jalapeño diced

1 quarter sweet onion diced

4 strips cooked turkey bacon diced

Instructions:

Place sweet potatoes skin side up on non stick pan (I used foil to prevent sticking and for easy clean up)

Brush skin with olive oil back 425 for 40 minutes or until tender

While your sweet potatoes are baking mix softened cream cheese, jalapeno, onion and turkey bacon

When sweet potatoes are done remove the pulp and mix with your above mixture then fill your sweet potato skins with a spoon full (keeping skin side down)

Reduce oven temperature to 400 and bake 20 minutes or until sweet potatoes have started to brown

Remove from oven and allow to cool

You must resist temptation at this point as these bad boys will be piping hot! Once cooled serve alone or as a side with your meal. For me these hit the spot. Sweet-Spicy-Comfort food…can you say yummy! For my husband, he added a scoop of sour cream, to each their own. It’s a win in our house when I can make 1 thing and it’s a hit. I have a passion for making good food, food that is healthy and yet satisfying. Let me know how you enjoy this recipe.

I will be posting later this week about my chicken fajita salad and how to make it a family favorite!

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WHAT’S FOR DINNER?

HA isn’t this the million dollar question? I mean two adults working full time, live in a household and one has the responsibility of asking “What’s for dinner?”.  While the other has the responsibility of grocery shopping, meal planning, cooking (praying everyone likes it) then YAY clean up ☺! For years, I tried to keep up with working full-time, keeping the house clean, getting laundry done, keeping the fridge stocked and being a personal chef ☺ ,haha.  I swear if someone can invent an automated clothes folder I would be in heaven, but seriously it’s not easy trying to keep on top of laundry!  This takes serious talent a talent that I admire in any person that can balance all of this plus sport games, school-home work, I mean you deserve a medal. Sometimes, I wait for confetti to go off at the end of my day that says YAYYYY you made it! When I decided to take control of my health this made a huge impact on my household. Literally everything started falling apart because of the one hour a day I was dedicating to myself.  That one hour which would in-turn better all myself. Who wouldn’t want me to be happy right?? Well it’s not that they didn’t want me to be happy but they still wanted to be fed and a folded under shirt that didn’t look like a Kleenex because I pulled it out of the dryer and threw it in a laundry bin. This is when I realized I needed to really make better use of my time, basically creating a schedule. I couldn’t be expected to cook wholesome meals each day, this is just setting me up for failure. Sure, many times, I would have rather texted my husband grab a pizza but then I would end up eating the pizza and the viscous cycle would begin again, with that being said, serving a salad for dinner was perfect for me but only lasted a short while before I found myself making a meal for me and a meal for husband daily. Great, my effort to get healthy has now added more work. This is when my weekly meal prep was born. What a great idea right! On Sundays, I cook a batch of lunches and dinners for my husband and I and BOOM grab in the morning for lunch and off to work or warm up after work. The meals are labeled so chose what you want when you feel hungry and WINNING! Once I had meal prepped in my house I couldn’t help but share with my family and coworkers. It’s great to share ideas of any kind when they can save time and money, but meal prepping also is a great habit that will spoil you. I easily save 15 minutes each morning buy not making sandwiches or putting together a salad and again at dinner another hour, oh and of course best of all cleanup is a sinch! Oh and wait for it…. We all began losing weight….wait what? Let me explain, at least in our house, when you grab something from the grocery store you can’t resist a snack whether that be ice cream, chips a donut, whatever your guilty pleasure is it derails you from your diet. With meal prep, you save yourself the temptation. We have all been there, you know when you just got off work and get a text that says hey babe what’s for dinner? So you put on your superhero cape and speed race up and down the grocery store aisles hoping when you speed around the corner there is not another cart there because this will totally slow down your mission to get in the store find something you can throw together and get out of the store under 10 minutes because well you still have to make dinner, but then as you turn down the next aisle it hits you its Tuesday its Taco Tuesday, tacos it is ☺ No fear I have you covered on this. One of the meals we offer at The LoCal Kitchen is our Chicken Fajita Bowl, this is one of my favorites because the fajita bowl is perfect for me loaded with chicken, peppers, kale, black beans and rice and yet when served with a tortilla is perfect for my husband. I have had many people tell me “I really need your service but my spouse is a real meat and potato person”. Well my response is chicken fajitas, who doesn’t love chicken fajitas. [ ... ]