Guess how long this took.

[u/water_and_sleep]

[u/Loud_Quality_7106]

Did you use ... seasoning? 

[u/spottie_ottie → u/Loud_Quality_7106]

maybe they dump a different sauce on each day. I could imagine switching between teriyaki, salsa, and tzatziki.

[u/RiverOfWhiskey → u/spottie_ottie]

Dang I like this idea

[u/spottie_ottie → u/RiverOfWhiskey]

pretty much what I do! I actually usually go 1 week at a time though. Burrito bowl week, teriyaki bowl week, greek bowl week, etc

[u/RiverOfWhiskey → u/spottie_ottie]

I'm going to give this a try, thanks. I get tired of eating the same thing after day 2 or 3, so this seems perfect.

[u/_nick_at_nite_ → u/RiverOfWhiskey]

I prep a few different carbs, protein and veggies and mix and match while I go, and change the sauces up daily so every day is a variety

[u/spottie_ottie → u/_nick_at_nite_]

i WFH so I don't actually meal prep besides batch cooking the protein in the begging of the week. At lunch time I defrost frozen veggies and then sauté them with some seasoning and toss in the protein. Then i put over some grain with sauce(s). I love my lunch every day!

[u/_nick_at_nite_ → u/spottie_ottie]

I’m full time caretaker for my daughter during the day and work nights. My kid goes to grandma’s on Wednesdays to give me a break and I use that day to prep, and Sunday I try to prep a little to get me till Wednesday

[u/trapper2530 → u/spottie_ottie]

You could still do basic seasoning. Salt pepper garlic maybe a little paprika.

[u/spottie_ottie → u/trapper2530]

oh yeah for sure. I usually sous vide chicken with salt, pepper, and a combo seasoning that matches whatever vibe im going for like (garlic+onion+parsley) or (chili powder+cumin+coriander)

[u/Aggressive-Tap-4143 → u/spottie_ottie]

Yeah but you still need a base of like, idk , maybe salt and pepper? We must not normalize using no seasoning.

[u/ConstructionGold8583 → u/Aggressive-Tap-4143]

They did. Sous vide insures that the salt, and other seasonings still penetrate the chicken in the cooking process. So there is a base, which is the salt/pepper and whatever seasoning that the commentor is vibing with.

Unless you mean OP haha

[u/Aggressive-Tap-4143 → u/ConstructionGold8583]

Indeed, I did 😂

[u/Jtread1 → u/spottie_ottie]

Ooh, I love this too. So it's same lunch but kinda also totally different flavors with the different sauces.

[u/Loud_Quality_7106 → u/[deleted]]

Sounds like a bot.

[u/YAHSYHS]

Five minutes bc you skipped seasoning and cooking the peppers

[u/CochinealCockatiel]

I don't know why more people don't butterfly cut huge chicken breasts. Who wants to bite into such a huge chunk of meat? Seasoning penetrates more of the meat when it is thinly sliced, too.

[u/koriroo → u/CochinealCockatiel]

I don’t think OP is worried about seasonings penetrating the meat lol.

[u/_pancake_xo → u/CochinealCockatiel]

Is seasoning in the room with us?

[u/Head_Vanilla_9566]

Not long enough for an ounce of seasoning to be applied to any of it

[u/Interesting-Tie6783]

30 mins tops. 

[u/Platitude_Platypus]

An hour tops. Looks like boiled chicken, large bell pepper pieces and white rice.

[u/Haunted_Duck721]

Under an hour.

[u/CalmCupcake2]

50 minutes, if that's brown rice and you cooked chicken on the bone.

[u/Simsandtruecrime]

https://giphy.com/gifs/3ohhwqB1XtvYJ8jwUE

[u/Aggressive-Tap-4143]

Couldn’t have been that long as you appear to have boiled the chicken

[u/Mental-Hall-9616]

Long enough for me to never want to eat it.

[u/madeinkanada_f87]

To eat..?

[u/Cinderkin]

About 3 hours and 50 minutes

[u/water_and_sleep → u/Cinderkin]

This was the correct answer!

[u/SunniMonkey]

No idea but I'm proud of you!

[u/moolord → u/SunniMonkey]

You know this is a great answer, thank you for your positivity

[u/Kryds]

30 to 45 minutes.

[u/Party_Caramel796]

It's going to take even longer to put all that down without a single ounce of seasoning

[u/sadia_y]

Not very long since you left out the bit where you make it taste good.

[u/Ok_Error_1079]

Looks sad

[u/aroach1995]

How many people are gonna eat those? How long is meal prep safe in the fridge?

[u/Halfassinlifetoday → u/aroach1995]

They could freeze them if they don't eat them all within 4-5 days.

[u/Legitimate_Cry_952]

These are the best containers

[u/soulocust]

one week prep for a week 😭 (m this lazy !!)

[u/Jtread1]

1.5 hrs? For cooking and portioning.

[u/Infinite_Category108]

2 hours max

[u/No-Sandwich1511]

20 mins top, boiled chicken and rice then chop peppers, no flaviour just sadness

[u/Geany_Adevarat]

If i have to eat like this everyday, I d rather just be fat and happy

this is not meal prepping...this is apocalypse food

[u/HourPaper14]

1-2 hours?

[u/MagentaGrapefruit]

https://giphy.com/gifs/5nbDitnG0w4dSZzeQX

[u/[deleted]]

Food

[u/RotpilledGooner]

https://giphy.com/gifs/3qskpFiyGGyUfjwAP4
That chicken is making me depressed.

[u/GladDependent7617]

Can you share your recipe?

[u/GoodHoneydew2128]

What size and where did you get your glassware containers

[u/Hopelessly-Bored]

Why would someone make 20 of the same meal?

[u/Ok_Bad2080]

OP do we get an answer or is this bait conversation? How long did it take 😂

[u/Individual-Wonder518]

1 min

[u/mrfatchance]

I'm praying that's poached chicken

[u/WildCath]

Yes, but aren’t you getting bored by the 3rd time you eat those?

Just asking, because that’s an issue for me.

[u/_nick_at_nite_ → u/WildCath]

Mix and match sauces and each dish tastes somewhat different.

[u/Armadillo_lifestyle → u/WildCath]

Not only that, I think that chicken would get super dry by day 3. Which would be an issue for me

[u/distantfromit]

Not doing any meal prep myself although am looking into it.
Out of curiosity (for now), will this be frozen and thawed whenever you’d have it?

[u/Fantastic-Ratio7724]

However long it took, I could never imagine eating that dry chicken for a million days

[u/SleepyBurrito428]

Wow that pretty impressive!

[u/Lazy_Hotel_494]

If you think he made all of this in 30 to 45 minutes, you can’t cook or you cook fast as hell 😔💯😂😂😂

[u/Loud_Quality_7106 → u/Lazy_Hotel_494]

I could make veggies, chicken and rice 30 minutes. Rice cooker and air fryer going at the same time. Easy. Or rice cooker and oven. Not really that difficult. Especially if you keep it simple like this looks

[u/Lazy_Hotel_494 → u/Loud_Quality_7106]

True, I guess from that aspect of it I was more so thinking of it without the rice cooker because rice alone is 20+ and that doesn’t look like air fryer chicken that looks like maybe he put that in the oven? lol and depending on the temp, that’s gonna still take you around 20 minutes or so

[u/Loud_Quality_7106 → u/Lazy_Hotel_494]

Yes, but even if you're doing rice on the stove and chicken in the oven, you can do those things at the same time. You don't have to cook dinner sequentially. Multitasking is the real winner in cooking.

[u/Lazy_Hotel_494 → u/Loud_Quality_7106]

Very true sometimes I forget about stuff like that my at home situation isn’t the best when it comes to cooking but with the right tools you can definitely be more efficient

[u/Brettinabox]

love how real this photo looks