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Slow-Cooker Carnitas & Oven Meatloaf

Four carnitas bowls with rice and beans plus four mini meatloaves, five Blueberry Peach Recharge smoothies and five Greek yogurt-and-berry snacks. The meatloaf estimate covers the loaf and glaze only; add any desired sides separately in your plan.

Moderate-calorie here means 1,700-1,999 calories for one smoothie, both meal preps and one snack, not the total eaten every calendar day. One long slow-cooker batch leaves the oven available for the separate meatloaves before the pork broil. These scheduled foods are not a complete-diet prescription.

Meal-prep proteinBeef & pork

  • 4 + 4 meal-prep servings
  • 5 smoothies
  • 5 snacks

For one person. Ten of the week’s 28 slots stay open.

Two original four-serving batches. Breakfast and snacks, sorted.

Meal prep 1 · 4 servings

Slow Cooker Carnitas Bowls

65.6g protein647 calories$3.89 est.

Per serving, including listed sides and sauce.

Thaw pork before slow cooking and follow the appliance instructions. Remove the bay leaf and orange peel before shredding. Crisp pork on a broiler-safe sheet, not in meal-prep containers; cook 1 cup dry rice separately and drain and rinse the single 15 oz can of black beans. Divide pork, rice, beans and the declared cheese and salsa between four bowls.

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Meal prep 2 · 4 servings

Mini Meatloaf

53.6g protein491 calories$5.05 est.

Per serving, including listed sides and sauce.

Divide the entire meatloaf mixture into four equal loaves. Use oven-rated containers with lids out, or bake on a tray and transfer after cooking; follow container temperature-change guidance. Split the glaze between its two brushing stages and verify ground beef reaches 160°F. The listed 491 calories cover the loaf and glaze, not a vegetable or starch side.

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Snack · 5 portions

Greek yogurt + berries

22g protein210 calories

Per portion, using the planner estimate. Brands and fruit choices can change the numbers.

For all five portions

  • 5 cups Greek yogurt
  • 2 1/2 cups berries

For five smoothies, freeze 6¼ cups blueberries and 1¼ cups raspberries in individual portions. Blend each when serving with 6 fl oz mango juice drink, 2 fl oz peach juice drink and 44 g vanilla protein powder. The mango and peach are drinks, not frozen fruit. Five separate snacks need 5 cups Greek yogurt and 2½ cups berries; keep these refrigerated.

Your week at a glance

Eight meal-prep portions, five smoothies, five snacks. Every serving stays editable.

Calories and protein below count scheduled food only. Open slots and anything else you eat are not included.

  1. Sunday

    647 calories
    66g protein

    1 of 4 slots filled
    breakfast
    Open
    lunch
    Open
    snack
    Open
  2. Monday

    1,746 calories
    173g protein

    4 of 4 slots filled
    breakfast
    Blueberry Peach Recharge1 serving
    dinner
    Mini Meatloaf1 serving
    snack
    Greek yogurt + berries1 portion
  3. Tuesday

    1,099 calories
    107g protein

    3 of 4 slots filled
    breakfast
    Blueberry Peach Recharge1 serving
    lunch
    Mini Meatloaf1 serving
    dinner
    Open
    snack
    Greek yogurt + berries1 portion
  4. Wednesday

    1,746 calories
    173g protein

    4 of 4 slots filled
    breakfast
    Blueberry Peach Recharge1 serving
    dinner
    Mini Meatloaf1 serving
    snack
    Greek yogurt + berries1 portion
  5. Thursday

    1,746 calories
    173g protein

    4 of 4 slots filled
    breakfast
    Blueberry Peach Recharge1 serving
    dinner
    Mini Meatloaf1 serving
    snack
    Greek yogurt + berries1 portion
  6. Friday

    608 calories
    53g protein

    2 of 4 slots filled
    breakfast
    Blueberry Peach Recharge1 serving
    lunch
    Open
    dinner
    Open
    snack
    Greek yogurt + berries1 portion
  7. Saturday

    0 calories
    0g protein

    0 of 4 slots filled
    breakfast
    Open
    lunch
    Open
    dinner
    Open
    snack
    Open

Friday lunch and dinner, Tuesday dinner, all of Saturday, and Sunday’s other slots are open. Add food or change the schedule in the planner to fit your week.

Prep & storage

A little planning before the first batch.

Cook each recipe once

Start the carnitas early: the written method needs LOW 6-8 hours or HIGH 4-5 hours, then an 8-minute broil and separately cooked rice. Bake the meatloaves while the slow cooker runs, but finish their 400°F oven stage before switching to broil. Allow 30-35 minutes baking plus 5 minutes resting and preparation for the meatloaves; the 40-minute recipe listing is shorter than those written steps. This is not a quick combined session. Use 2 lb trimmed raw pork and 2 lb raw ground beef for the two four-serving batches. Freeze Sunday-prepped Wednesday and Thursday portions promptly, or cook them midweek.

For two people, use “Shopping for two?” in the planner. Groceries double to eight portions of each meal prep, ten smoothies, and ten snacks; per-person nutrition stays the same.

Shop the overlap

  • Garlic powder
  • Onion powder
  • Salt
  • Black pepper

Shared between the two meal preps. The planner adds smoothie and snack ingredients too, and you can uncheck pantry items you already have.

Keep later portions safe

If cooking both batches Sunday, promptly freeze Wednesday and Thursday portions after prep, or cook them fresh midweek. Use shallow containers, label the date, and thaw in the refrigerator. Blend smoothies when serving; keep dairy snacks refrigerated and follow product labels. Check every recipe and snack for allergens.

Food-safety temperatures & official guidance

Refrigerate perishable food within 2 hours, or 1 hour above 90°F. Keep the fridge at 40°F or below. Use refrigerated leftovers within 3-4 days and reheat to 165°F throughout. Cook chicken to 165°F, ground beef to 160°F, and fish to 145°F. Cook whole cuts of pork and beef to 145°F and rest at least 3 minutes. Cook shrimp until the flesh is pearly or white and opaque. Keep raw proteins and their utensils separate from ready-to-eat food.

FoodSafety.gov: safe cooking temperatures
USDA: leftovers, freezing, and reheating

What’s behind the estimates?

$55.15Meal-prep + smoothie ingredientsSnacks excluded from this price

Eight meal-prep servings ($35.77) + five smoothies ($19.39). Snack prices are incomplete, so this is a partial ingredient-use estimate, not a full shopping total.

Snacks are included in the groceries and nutrition. Whole packages can cost more; taxes, delivery, and fees are excluded.

Nutrition, comparison basis & price sources

Calorie comparison: 1,746 calories and 173g protein is the total of one serving of each meal prep, one smoothie, and one snack. Those four slots are filled on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday. The library groups planned food as lower (under 1,700), moderate (1,700-1,999), or higher (2,000 or more) calories. Each plan’s introduction explains its theme.

Weekday scheduled-food totals range from 608 to 1,746 calories because some days leave meals open. The full schedule above shows each day separately. This is not a complete weekly diet or a calorie or protein prescription.

Meal-prep and smoothie nutrition comes from current recipe labels. The planner rounds each recipe’s calories and protein to whole numbers before totaling portions. Snacks use existing per-portion planner estimates. Editing a meal or portion recalculates nutrition and groceries; unchecking a pantry item changes the shopping list, not nutrition.

Cost calculation: each meal-prep recipe’s unrounded per-serving ingredient cost × four, plus the smoothie cost × five, rounded at the end. Prices are in USD for the amounts used, including priced seasonings. Observations were checked 2026-09-21, 2026-10-02; store, location, brand, and promotions affect actual prices.

The subtotal covers both four-serving meal batches and five smoothies at dated ingredient-use prices; all five snacks and any meatloaf sides are excluded. It is not a complete cart price or current checkout quote. The pork estimate allows for trimming: about 2⅔ lb purchased for 2 lb trimmed meat, not a cooking-yield adjustment. Actual cuts, trimming and packages vary. Powder uses the existing 44 g Body Fortress reference, and juices use sweetened drink references; swaps change nutrition and cost. Both meals contain substantial sodium. Meatloaf contains egg, milk and wheat breadcrumbs; cheese, powder and yogurt also contain dairy. Check sauce and product labels for allergens.

Each recipe links its ingredient-level sources. Cost methodology · Nutrition methodology