On Sunday, I grilled several chicken breasts, then stuck them in the refrigerator. I cut off 1 block, 2 block, 3 block, or 4 block protein for any meal. I can nuke the chicken to warm it up in seconds or eat it cold. Easy to cube or slice into a salad.

I prepurchased bagged spinach leaves and leafy lettuce. You can have tons of this when zoning.

I bought a bag of small gala apples. They are handy for 1 block snack or to throw into salad as block of carb.

I bought a bag of oranges. I work out at 6am daily. I have been eating an orange and an apple, a 2 block cube of chicken, pork, or lunch meat, and two macadamia nuts for breakfast at 5:30am when I first awaken. (2 blocks)

At 7:30 or 8:00 I am eating a couple of eggs with Jarlsberg cheese added, 1/4 cup of oatmeal added to 3/4 cup of water and cooked. I use Splenda to sweeten the oatmeal and throw blueberries or strawberries into the oatmeal along with Walnuts. Aiming for 3 block meal. (Now I am at 5 blocks for the day)

10:30 Banana (easy to keep on hand), 3 almonds, 1 block cube of chicken or cheese. (Now I am at 6 blocks)

12:30 Salad with lettuce, chicken, cheese, nuts, touch of dressing, apple, mushrooms (you can have a ton of these). So I have carbs, proteins, fats all together for 3 or 4 blocks depending how much I want to fill up. (Now I am at 9-10 blocks)

2:30-3:00 I have a 1-2 block snack (could even have a Zoneperfect bar, though not ideal, or some such thing that is designed for meal replacement although these things are usually a little high in carb, fat or protein). The snack size Zoneperfect bar for example has 2.5 fat gr., 10 carb gr., 5 protein gr. (1 block is ideally 1.5, 9, 7)

5:30-6:00 last night I had grilled sausage (fat and protein), steamed green beans, and boiled new potatoes. Kept the portions tight trying to go for 4 block meal

9:00 snack could be strawberries, cheese, wine, beer, chocolate fudge, cinamon roll, chocolate chip ice cream, pecan pie. Okay, I am just kidding. You can have the strawberries, cheese, and wine and nuts. You just have to fantasize about the other stuff like I do.

I haven’t dove right into the Zone yet but my new years resolution was to eat smarter. I tried your natural peanut butter, honey, oats and blueberry mix last night and found it really delicious. I think alot of us crossfitters who are not quite ready to go into the Zone full time would really appreciate other meal and snack suggestions (like the peanut butter concoction) that don’t necessarily fit perfectly into the Zone block system but are some of your favorite healthy meals/snacks.