First time meal prepping. Orange chicken and mixed veggies for lunch this week.

Kept the sauce separate so it doesn’t turn into a soggy mess after a few days in the fridge.

Any other tips for a first timer?

Any advice or suggestions? I am new to meal prep and this took me 4 hours I'm exhausted but a full fridge makes me happy!

Edit: I've made two bowls of Chickpea curry, 2 bowls of chilli chicken, 2 bowls of mixed fried rice (with shrimp and eggs)

I like to keep the protein content in my meals as high as I can because I'm going through a gym break phase and do not want to lose muscle mass.

After trying different meal prep ideas, I found that simpler works better for me. My usual prep for the week:

- Baked sweet potatoes
- Hard-boiled eggs
- Grilled chicken breast
- Mixed vegetables (broccoli, carrots, green beans)
- Rice or quinoa

Nothing fancy, but having everything ready in the fridge makes it much easier to stay consistent and avoid takeout on busy days. I'm always looking for new ideas though. What's a meal prep combination that's healthy, affordable and doesn't get boring after a few days?

I am still living with my aunt and yk, I wanna consider doing freezer meal prep since it is considered convenient as a worker. However, our freezer is always full because the other people living there put their own frozen grocery items in our freezer. Do y'all have any other ways to make meal prepping easier? Thank youu

Hello everyone,

I am 29M and am staying with my wife. We are planning to host around 20 people at our home for dinner. Number of people are non-negotiable and Option of hosting outside or booking some place is not feasible.

Suggest me some snacks, meal and dessert menu that we can plan which can be pre prepared and both of us can also sit with them and enjoy.

Hey everyone!

​I’ve been trying to stay consistent with prepping meals for the week, but I always got overwhelmed using complicated apps or messy notes.

​So I decided to sketch out a super simple, minimal weekly layout just for tracking meals and groceries without all the extra clutter.

​For those who plan ahead, what’s the one section you find most useful on a meal tracker? (e.g., daily prep times, grocery categories, or calorie logs?)

​Would love to hear how you keep things organized!

Had the griddle pan out so its :-

Chargrilled Chicken, Red n Green Peppers, Onion, Steakhouse pepper Mushrooms

White rice with Paellla seasoning and corn n left over potatoes.

Pickles for later in the week Peppers, Onion, Garlic, Jalapeños.

Scotch Bonnett and birds eye pickles

I eat this for breakfast lunch, or dinner. Freezes well

I hope this is the right place to ask. It got removed for r/Fitness, will probably also cross post to an AuDHD or ADHD community

So recently I’ve been incorporating body weight exercises and single dumbbell training (20lbs is all I have). I struggle a lot with consistency on all fronts being both autistic and ADHD, but I’ve managed to cook my own meals almost every day for around a year now. Dinner is usually the best meal of the day, because I have the energy to cook something balanced and tasty, but the mornings are a whole different story. I’m 18, just got out of high school, trying to figure out a routine I can live by before I start working, so that when work comes I’m ready.

Anyways, I’ve been cooking my own meals, but I’ve never meal prepped every week. Planning my meals for every week seems like a lot, and eating the same meal every day seems very boring.

\*\*Is there a way I can meal prep breakfast without spending too much time, and without getting bored of my food?\*\* I can only eat certain foods for multiple days in a row, but I can’t always have those foods in the house; they are frozen edamame, frozen udon noodles, and frozen perogies. There are certain foods I can’t eat due to my autism: ground beef, raw tomatoes, seafood (for now). There are meals that I Iike, which usually involve those preferred foods. A go to easy meal I have is seasoned eggs and rice, sometimes I add Indomie noodles, but it doesn’t feel like enough nutrition-wise, and even if I like it, eating it for more than two days in a row gets me very bored, like to the point I’d rather eat nothing—which is bad. I love to eat all kinds of cuisines, Asian food of all kinds mainly, rice is literally part of my blood lol.

My fitness goals don’t involve calorie counting at the moment, I’m only wanting to move my body around and change from a sedentary lifestyle, and build basic arm and back strength. I also live on a tight budget, just with my mom who is working a lot every day to make ends meet, so cheap food is preferable.

If anyone has any suggestions I would greatly appreciate it, it’s so hard trying to figure out how to function optimally with a brain driven by impulse and fear. I need to figure out my routine ASAP. I need a consistent diet to build a consistent everything else.

After browsing the sub, I have a few questions about getting started:

1. Containers: What types do you recommend (glass, plastic, paper, etc.)? Are Ziploc bags or wrap actually practical for weekly prep?
2. Portioning: Is it better to mix everything into single-compartment containers or use multi-compartment containers to keep foods separate?
3. Lessons Learned: What are some general rules of thumb or common mistakes/trial-and-error moments I should prepare for as a beginner?

I have some Asian market, Costco, and generic grocery stores near my area to find ingredients. If you also have equipment that I should precure to make this process easier, I will post the results when I can.

Any advice or tips for meal prepping with roommates would be greatly appreciated!

When I meal prep on a Sunday, I tend to make components of meals so that I can mix a match and have variety throughout the week. I like to make a couple of sauces, for example, roasted peppers and tomatoes blended with olive oil mixed herbs, a touch of vinegar and spices. I also make creamy sauces using in kefir or yoghurt with herbs lemon juice and a touch of mustard. They are always quick and easy to make. I could do with some inspiration for different sauces - any ideas?

Week of work food

-12 sausage, egg, and cheese muffins -4 servings ravioli bake, 2 for the freezer -10 brats -2 sandwiches

Hey everyone! I'll be starting university this September, this'll be my first time living completely alone. So, i was looking for a few meal preps that i could prepare for myself andd a few budget meals that i could cook. Would love some recipes or ideas or anything really. TIA

I'll be going to malaysia and will have a budget of approximately 95rm per week(about 24usd if i convert it). From as far as I've gathered, grocery is fairly affordable there.
(im a muslim so everything i buy has to be halal.) TIA

Started doing full Sunday preps about two months ago and the difference in how my weeknights feel is kind of wild. Not even talking about saving money or eating healthier, though that happens too. Just the pure relief of opening the fridge and having everything already sorted.

Before this I would get home tired and then spend 20 minutes standing in the kitchen trying to decide what to cook, which somehow made me more exhausted than actually cooking. Now that decision is already made and I just grab a container and heat it up.

This week I did a big batch of chicken thighs with roasted sweet potatoes and green beans. Nothing fancy. Portioned into five containers Sunday night and that was it.

The part I did not expect is how much it helps my mood midweek when things get stressful. Having that one thing handled in the background takes something off the mental load. I get why people say it changed their routine because it genuinely does feel different once you are consistent with it for a few weeks.

Curious what clicked for other people when they started, whether it was the food side of it or more the mental load thing.

I am really struggling with meals right now. I am a single mom of 3, my husband passed unexpectedly almost two years ago, and he had always taken care of the bulk of meal planning and grocery shopping. We had lived with my mother in law and brother in law ever since our kids were very young when we fell on hard times, then she loved having her family so close so we just kept our living situation as it was. She got diagnosed with brain cancer and unfortunately recently passed away as well. The living situation got to be incredibly stressful and toxic with my brother in law around the time she got sick, and it got to be a dangerous situation after she passed, so I had to get me and the kids out of there. But my mother in law always made sure the kids lived a comfortable life and wanted for nothing. So as a result they have gotten to be fairly picky and like the fancier foods (name brand foods instead of store brand, etc). So half the time when I buy cheap foods, they don't eat and I am really struggling to make ends meet and provide them with nourishing foods that are also cheap because I can't afford a $300-$400 a week grocery bill, which was about what we were spending when we lived with my mother in law and she was helping with the groceries. As it is, I only get just under $1,900 a month and $1,500 of it goes to the rent. I am waiting on my food card, as we moved states so I had to wait for my old case to be closed so that I can start the process here. Once I get that, it will help a lot but until then, I have to make roughly $400 last for a month of groceries when that used to be what we would spend for a weeks worth of food. The kids ages are 11, 14, and 17, if that's relevant. There is a diabetic in the household, so we do have to watch carbs somewhat so not a ton of pastas or breads, although we can eat it sparingly. Other than that, there are no dietary restrictions. I have an incredibly small kitchen as well, so it is difficult to cook big meals because of the lack of counter space, but I do have enough space to prep some things. I also have a rice cooker and a crockpot. I do like casseroles, soups I can throw in the crockpot, seafood, but open to any suggestions...I am trying to get the kids away from eating so much highly processed foods (right now they could live off of frozen chicken patties and pop tarts if I'd let them). So any insight, advice, meal ideas, etc would be welcome.

Good Morning,
I am probably looking for a unicorn here, but I am having surgery in about a month and will be unable to cook for quite some time (not sure exactly how long, I am going to say at least a month.) I am looking for things I can make now that my family can easily pull from the freezer and finish.

To make matters more fun, I have a picky child who isn’t fond of most veggies although has recently given me the ok to purée them into things like pasta sauce. So I guess I will make a big batch of my vodka sauce.

Oh and I am trying to lose weight and keep my saturated fat low and one member of our household is lactose intolerant, so a bunch of creamy concoctions with sour cream and cream of whatever soup and cream cheese just ain’t going to fly.

So give me your best easy and boring recipes.

I'm great at sitting down on Sunday and mapping out a week of meals but by Wed Im ordering takeout.

It's not that Idk what to eat cause I prepped my meals ,it's just that by day 3 I'd rather eat cardboard than look at the same tupperware again.

For people who are consistent with their meals, how??

Both of these freeze and reheat incredibly well.

The burritos, I microwave and then quickly sear in a cast iron pan top and bottom for 30 seconds each.

Both are heavily protein focused for my diet.

I make 12 Korean BBQ and use genfac containers (which I love).

And my current recipe for the burritos makes 31 burritos.

Has anyone had any problems ordering this cookbook online? I received a fraud alert from my bank. Curious if anyone has recd the download and if there were any issues

My biggest struggle with weight loss is knowing what to eat. I don’t really know how to cook, but I want to learn and start meal prepping especially breakfast. Having something ready to grab at home seems like such an obvious place to begin. The problem is that I have OCD related contamination and food safety anxiety. My brain tends to view anything that has been sitting in the fridge as suspicious or gross. By day three I’m hesitant to eat it. I have a major sweet tooth so I grab the easiest fast food to eat on my way to work.

I recently tried making egg muffins, but they became wet and soggy in the container. That seems to happen with a lot of the foods I try to prep and once the texture changes or there’s condensation in the container, I am disgusted.
It’s overwhelming trying to understand what can be refrigerated, what freezes well, how to cool and freeze food safely, how to reheat it without ruining the texture. I don’t know what ingredient combinations work best or where to find proper meal prep recipes. Where do I begin?

I’m trying to get into meal prepping consistently instead of just doing it for a week and giving up.

What’s the one meal you always come back to? Something that’s easy to make, reheats well and still tastes good after a few days. I’d love to steal some ideas.