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Cook Once, Chow for a Week
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A few weeks into the school year and I’m starting to get sick of cafeteria food. There aren’t many healthy choices except for the salad and sandwich bars, and I feel like I’ve already exhausted every possible combination on those fronts.
But one of the nice things about my living arrangement this year is that I have a kitchen. So over the weekend, I bought a few groceries – just cheap and healthy staples: Chicken breasts, whole wheat pasta, olive oil, garlic and fresh shallots. I also found out our school has a student-run garden full of vegetables and herbs so I went there and grabbed some tomatoes, peppers, rosemary and basil.
Back at home, I went to work on a grilled chicken pasta dish with sautéed veggies.
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Here's how I made it:
Cook the pasta
Spice up the chicken breasts with some oregano, salt and pepper, and throw them onto the George Foreman grill
Chop the veggies and sauté with the rosemary and basil
Put it all together
By time I had finished cooking, there was enough food for five or six meals this week. Surprisingly, it didn’t take me more than an hour. As a result, I’m looking for some more recipes that I can try out over the next few weeks.
If you have a recipe you like, please post it here.
About The Author
Tobias Resch – A student athlete at Swarthmore College, Tobias Resch is an author of "The Performance Life" blog for CorePerformance.com.
