Aside from limiting my caloric intake to 1700 and aiming to consume 160 grams of protein, I don't really care how the remaining calories are distributed.What cuisine do you like to eat? Are you trying to eat healthy, avoiding carbs, etc? Because if I could eat spaghetti bolognese everyday without worsening my type 2 diabetes, thats what I would eat..like all the fucking time. And you can freeze meat sauce and it keeps forever.
Cool, I bought an instant pot recently. I'm definitely on the hunt for easy and affordable recipes made on the IP. I still need to try making chili on it.Beef stew and chili can both be prepared relatively easily (chop, saute, and slow cook) especially with an instant pot pressure cooker or crock pot. Pretty balanced (veggies, carbs, meat) and are easy to store (any Tupperware although glass is best) and freeze well.
No? Meal prepping is for anyone looking to live a healthier life. What a misguided thing to say...
LOL. Prepping is like making meals for the week. Not for life. That's "canning" and actual farming/harvesting from their own veggie garden.
It's also lingo for fatties to prepare their meals for the next week so they eat out less, know exactly what they are eating and help loose weight.
NO EXTRASYou're prepping, perhaps not for apocalypse. Have any Tylenol in your home? Extra rolls of toilet paper? Candles if power goes out? You're prepping.
I only prep my breakfast for the week:
Breakfast burritos:
- brown 1lb of either [80% ground beef (salt + pepper), ground lamb sausage, or ground beef Chorizo] this depends on what my CSA offers from week to week.
- mix in 1 cup of spinach
- mix in 1 cup of kale
- scramble 6 eggs + turmeric powder and add to pan
- fill 1 pack (8 Siete Cassava Flour Tortillas) with mixture
- add hot sauce if you like
- wrap in foil and reheat each morning.
I eat at least 2 of these each morning after lifting.
I only prep my breakfast for the week:
Breakfast burritos:
- brown 1lb of either [80% ground beef (salt + pepper), ground lamb sausage, or ground beef Chorizo] this depends on what my CSA offers from week to week.
- mix in 1 cup of spinach
- mix in 1 cup of kale
- scramble 6 eggs + turmeric powder and add to pan
- fill 1 pack (8 Siete Cassava Flour Tortillas) with mixture
- add hot sauce if you like
- wrap in foil and reheat each morning.
I eat at least 2 of these each morning after lifting.
I cook various foods daily and keep the leftovers for later consumption. No plastic containers per meal. But "meal prep" in the fitness and dieting sense is usually done for the week. Whether it's safe to eat or not, most foods start to taste significantly worse after 3-4 days. Veggies taste awful after day 2. I can't see how people do it. Daily cooking while keeping leftovers for reasonable periods is the much better approach.
I'm thinking people who meal prep must hate cooking.
Does each of those make 1 burrito or 2? 6 eggs+1lb of meat each morning sounds like a damn lot to digest. I know I can do 6 eggs in a morning but adding 1lb of meat to that would be hard even for me.
TALENTI ICE CREAM CONTAINERS.
Seriously, they're the best. Just the right size for single-portion meals, the plastic is heavy duty enough to survive a scrubbing, you can store acidic stuff in them like brines and vinegars, they freeze easily, they stack well, and the screw-tops never break, unlike the stupid corners on a Tupperware container.
At any moment I'll have my freezer filled with individual portions of kimchi fried rice that I can defrost, and then reheat in a rice cooker. Game-changer.
I built up a collection over the last few years (along with plenty of glass Maille mustard and Bonne Maman jam jars) but you can buy lots of them on eBay.
You can't microwave them, but I haven't owned or felt the need for a microwave for years.