If there is one thing I am sanctimonious about, it’s meal prep. I like knowing that lunch is accounted for well and truly in advance. So without fail, every weekend, I spend an afternoon making sure 11:30am weekday Anna is confident that a lunch that is nutritious and delicious is imminent. I also don’t like spending $18 on a CBD sandwich, sue me!

This week’s menu is zucchini fritters (the highlight and really the focus of this post) with easy (read: lazy) oven-baked chicken bites, a simple greek salad and a sour cream a chives dipping sauce.

Now if you’re the proud owner of a bento box-style lunch box, this is probably a good time to deploy her. But as you’ll see, I managed just fine without. It does just mean that come time to consume, you’ll need to fish out the chicken and heat it up (unless you’re a psychopath who doesn’t mind eating cold chicken).

The Greek Salad

We’re making 5 portions and this salad is as simple as it comes, and keeps really well over the course of the week. You’ll need:

• 3 large tomatoes cut into rough chunks
• 2 lebanese cucumber cut into rough chunks
• 1 red onion slice thinly
• A bunch of parsley – chopped
• The juice of half a lemon
• Half a block of feta – cubed
• A good glug of olive oil
• Salt and pepper
• A sprinkle of sumac

Combine all of the above in a bowl and season extra to your taste.

Here’s a video, if you’re more visually inclined:

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Simple meal prep for the week!

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The Chicken Bites

Call me the world’s laziest person and you would be correct, these chicken bites are firm proof of this.

Makes 5 portions:

• 1kg of chicken thigh cut up into bite-sized chunks
• 1/2 cup of plain flour
• 3 tbsp of hot sauce (I used Frank’s Original)
• 1 egg – whisked
• 1 cup of panko bread crumbs
• Salt and pepper

Preheat your oven to 200°C.

In a bowl, mix together the chicken and the flour until coated.

Add in the egg and hot sauce (which you will have whisked together in a smaller bowl).

Add the breadcrumbs, salt and pepper incrementally, making sure you’re coating as much of the chicken as possible. At this point it will be a terrible sticky mess, but trust the process.

Lay out your sticky chicken mess on a baking tray and bake for 14-16 minutes, giving it a halfway toss so that all the sides get a shot and going a bit crispy.

The Sour Cream and Chives dipping sauce

I am a big fan of condiments, so wherever I can add a sauce, I do.

For this one you’ll need:

• 1 tbsp sour cream
• 2 heaped tbsp of Greek yoghurt
• A handful of chives – chopped
• 1 garlic clove – crushed
• A squeeze of lemon juice
• Salt and pepper to taste

Combine the lot and decant into 5 small containers.

And now for the reason we’re all here…