When you have your meals planned out and prepped, it is so much easier to stay on track with healthy eating throughout the week. You are much less likely to stop for fast food or go out to lunch during the day if you have a week of healthy, pre-prepped food in your refrigerator that can be easily heated up. Meal prep also doesn't need to be a difficult or time-consuming task either. With the right preparation and planning, you can spend a couple hours on the weekend on a few meals that will keep you going throughout the entire week. Just by following a few simple steps, you can set yourself up for an entire healthy week.
- Map Out Meals
- Start by planning out just one meal for the week, either breakfast, lunch or dinner, then add in the other 2 meals in the following weeks
- Look at your weekly activities and see how many meals you will actually need
- Look at what foods are in season and use those as a base for your meals
- Gather recipes and keep them in a notebook to easily go through and decide what you are going to make
- Check your freezer and pantry and see what needs to be used up and can be used in your meals
- Shop
- Go to the grocery store with a list based on the recipes you are going to make. Having a list will help you to avoid impulse buys or forgetting ingredients that you will need
- Prepare
- Decide how you are going to prepare for the week- make everything at once, or just make some of it and do another prep mid-week
- By cooking everything on Sunday, you will save yourself a ton of time during the week
- Consider making double batches of recipes so you can freeze half to have ready for another week when you may have less time on the weekend to prepare
- For easy meals and quick clean-up, try one sheet pan or one pot meals. You will have your meal prep done in no time.
- Utilize your slow cooker when you are short on time. It will do the work for you so you don't have to spend hours in the kitchen cooking
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