Meal Prep

A little prep goes a long way!!!

Meal prep makes the practice of clean eating as efficient as possible. Cooking, preparing, and storing large batches of food to use throughout the week saves time and allows for convenience that leads to successful implementation of clean eating practices!

Here are few examples of what I cook on a weekly basis, along with, a few other common options:

Veggies: carrots, bell peppers, broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, beets, squash, asparagus.

Protein: chicken, salmon, turkey, hard boiled eggs, burger, steak, pork, cod, haddock

Carbs: sweet potatoes, rice, quinoa, pasta

You want to ensure that whatever you choose to cook can tolerate being stored and heated back up for a week.

The way in which you store the food once it’s been cooked it completely your preference. You can store each food separately (all the chicken, all the veggies, all the rice separately) and package them up into a meal on the day you need them, or you can store the food as a meal (chicken, veggies, rice all mixed together like a stir fry). Having meals prepackaged for the week does save time, you just grab and go. However, if you work from home saving that step might not be as important for you. You will need a good selection of containers when meal prepping. Here is a link to my favorite containers!!

There are other foods that might not need to be cooked, but still need to be prepared and packaged, some examples would be raw veggies, lose fruit like berries, or nuts. Here’s another example, once a banana has ripened, peel, break into 3 pieces, put into a zip lock baggie, and place in the freezer (I do bundles of bananas at once). I make smoothies every day with a banana, so this saves me so much time in the moment!

The ultimate goal with meal prep is to plan meals/do the work for those meals once per week and have options ready to go for the entire week. Convenience leads to consistency which leads to success!!!