This meal plan was created by prolific author Matt Fitzgerald.
Based on the principles found in his best selling book Racing Weight, Matt creates a well-balanced meal plan.
The thing I don’t like about most meal plans is that they aren’t very realistic. I mean, who in the world actually eats seven completely different breakfasts in a week?
As a busy athlete and mediocre cook who nevertheless insists on maintaining high standards for diet quality—in both senses (healthfulness and taste)—I prefer to design meal plans that work for the many other folks out there who fit the same description.
And this Super Simple Meal Plan for Busy Runners Who Aren’t Great Cooks is exactly that.
For more easy, high-quality meal ideas, check out Matt’s Racing Weight Cookbook and The Endurance Diet, both of which feature recipes created by the not-at-all-mediocre cook Georgie Fear.
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How to Use This Meal Plan
How do I adjust to fit my calorie or macro needs?
You can either add or subtract specific foods to modify the calorie and macronutrient totals.
If you need to reduce calories, start by removing snacks as these are typically the easiest to simply remove. However, you can choose to remove any food. To do this, just click on the food or recipe. This will populate the food/recipe just below the meal plan. You can then reduce the quantity or servings to zero. You can also adjust serving sizes. Most recipes will be 1 serving, but you can change to .5 servings if you need.
If you need to add calories or a specific macro nutrient you can increase the serving size for any recipe. Just click the recipe or ingredient, which will make it popup below the meal plan, and adjust the servings.
For RunnersConnect Masters members or Training Plans members, you can save this to your meal planner. From the meal planner you can further tweak by adding your own foods or swapping things out as needed.
What if I am allergic or do not like a particular food?
You can swap out any foods you like or don’t like. If you have an allergy or prefer a different food, you can choose anything from the recipe or ingredient dropdown and replace another food in the plan. All calorie and macronutrient totals will update.
Want More Features?
Want to be able to save this meal plan so you can adjust it more?
What about automatically generating a shopping list?
Add your own recipes to tweak our existing recipes?
Then take a look at our Nutrition for Runners Program.
Our Nutrition Plan for Runners is specifically designed for runners like you. We provide you with weekly challenges that help you make simple, actionable changes to your nutrition while providing you with extensive course material that answers every question and helps you master your nutrition.
We have meal plans for every type of diet and the course does not require you adhere to a specific diet type or style.
