Meal Prepping: 5 Tips

Do you find yourself stopping at a fast food joint to pick up a quick bite to eat on your way home because it's faster? The below meal prepping tips will help you to get home and have dinner on the table in under a half hour!

Tip One: 
Containers! I cannot stress this one enough. If you're going to meal prep for the week you need to ensure that you have enough containers to hold everything. I often find myself using glass containers for my main food, and then plastic for our day to day lunches. 

Tip Two:
Meal plan! Without a weekly meal plan it will be hard to prepare for the week. Often I'll make my meal plan for a month at a time. After I've created the meal plan I will create weekly grocery lists once the flyers have come out in hopes of saving money! If a meal I was planning to have the following week has most ingredients on sale that week I'll move it to the current week. 

Tip Three:
Batch Cook! If you're making something that can be frozen make a double batch so that you have it for the following weeks ahead. My lovely hubby eats meat with supper every night, so I'll prepare as much as I can on the Sunday when I'm doing my meal prepping. 

Tip Four:
Keep it simple! We both work Monday to Friday so it's harder to cook during the week. Most week night meals are a piece of meat for him, salad for both, and a beans for me. Mixing up the spices/ingredients helps to ensure variety. Our more complicated recipes take place on the weekend. 

Tip Five:
Portions! I find it extremely helpful to have everything I can set up in portions at the start of the week. I ensure that I eat 1oz of Raw Nuts a day, at the start of the week I make 7 packages of them for the week. 

Have fun! Meal prepping is not intended to be stressful so make sure to have some fun while you're at it! 

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