Kelsey HigginsonSports Nutrition Coach and Founder at Clutch Day Coaching

Super easy athlete meal from Trader Joes!

29 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this short YouTube segment, Kelsey Higginson addresses busy athlete parents, recommending Trader Joe’s family‑style frozen meat lasagna as a convenient, nutritionally balanced dinner. She outlines a simple preparation method—bake the lasagna about an hour before eating, pair it with a pre‑packaged Caesar salad (and optional garlic bread). Higginson emphasizes that the meal supplies the right proportions of carbohydrates, protein, fats, and salts needed for athletic recovery, sustained energy, and hormonal health. Anticipating parental guilt about frozen foods, she reassures viewers that an occasional frozen meal is acceptable because it meets essential macro‑ and micronutrient needs, making it a guilt‑free option for a once‑a‑week athlete diet.

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Athlete parents, this is a super easy athlete meal from Trader Joe's for the nights that you have to pick a kid up from this practice and head to another practice or whatever else you have going on. All you have to do is throw this in the oven 1 hour before you're ready to eat, mix together a pre-prepped salad. You could throw some garlic bread in there as well, and you have an athlete meal that has the right amount of carbs, the right amount of protein, the right amount of fats that your athlete needs to recover, to have the energy they need for the next practice tomorrow, and to have sustained energy and to keep their body and hormones healthy and strong. This is the family-style meat lasagna from Trader Joe's. You just grab it in the freezer section, and then you can grab whatever prepackaged salad that you guys like. Caesar salad with this specifically. And parents, if you're feeling guilty because you're like, I want to feed my athlete a frozen food, it has too many preservatives in it— however, an athlete's body needs carbs, it needs fats, it needs protein, it even needs some salts, and this has it. So it's okay for you to make a meal like this once a week guilt-free.