my p90x nutrition plan

So I spent most of yesterday trying to make homemade whole-wheat no-egg-yolk ravioli for you guys. I started around 9 a.m., and it was finally ready to eat at 2 p.m. It was beautiful, filled with yummy filling, and totally gross! lol. Sorry, I tried!

As I was slaving over it, hand kneading the dough, letting it rest for an hour, painstakingly rolling it thinner and thinner, forming and filling each individual ravioli, letting it dry for another hour, I knew that this was way too much work for a P90xer to go to for dinner. Heck, you guys are already committing an hour a day to exercise, the last thing you need is to spend 5 hours hand-stuffing raviolis!

As I was waiting for the ravioli to dry, I was hungry for lunch, and had half of the ravioli filling sitting there, so I decided to throw it on a whole wheat muffin, put some of the marinara sauce that I was planning to use on the pasta over it and broil it. What do you know, that was the success of the day! It took me 5 minutes, had all of the yummy flavors of the ravioli dish, and none of the hard work!

Ingredients: 6 oz. cooked chicken 1/2 cup low-fat cottage cheese 3 oz. low-fat Mozzarella cheese 1/2 oz. Parmesan cheese 4 whole wheat English muffins 1 cup marinara sauce (see P.S.) 1/4 tsp. Italian seasoning 1/4 tsp garlic salt 1/8 tsp onion powder 1/8 tsp pepper

Cook 6 oz. of chicken if necessary (you can boil it for approx. 15 min). Heat oven broiler to High. Shred chicken into bowl, add cheeses and spices and combine. Very lightly toast English muffins in the toaster on the lowest setting (this helps the muffin stand up to the moisture in the filling and not get soggy). Open muffins onto baking sheet (8 muffin halves total). Layer muffin, filling, and then add a dollop of marinara sauce over the top. Broil under High heat for approx. 3 minutes until heated through.

P90x Nutrition Plan Portions:

Makes 8 muffin melts. 4 muffin melts are 1 dairy serving, 1 protein serving, 1 carb serving, 1/2 vegi serving.

P.S. If you don’t have  marinara sauce but do have a tomato in the fridge, you can make some using my pizza sauce recipe.