Popular Categories

Monday, January 18, 2016

Fully Stocked

My current workout routine has me doing heavy weight in order to bulk up.  Lifting weights, however, is only one part of getting bigger: I also have to eat a lot of protein.  And since I want to bulk up without getting fat, I have to cut carbs and fat from my diet to make room for the extra protein.  If that wasn't complicated enough, I won't allow myself to eat meat more than once a day in order to better obey the Word of Wisdom.

In order to simplify things, I decided to buy and cook a bunch of chicken breasts, freeze them, and defrost and reheat them as needed.  How much is "a bunch" of chicken breasts?  A dozen.  I had so much meat that I needed to buy a second baking pan to cook it all at once.  After it was all cooked, I chopped it all up and used my new kitchen scale (that I got last week) to make five ounce portions (which constitutes about one sixth of my daily protein needs).  When it was all over, I had twenty portions.  All but one went in the freezer; the final one went in the fridge to be used this evening.

The whole process took much longer than I anticipated, but at least I can rest easy knowing that I won't have to cook any more meat for nearly two weeks.

No comments:

Post a Comment