How to Meal Prep

Meal prepping is something that I strongly advise to my clients. This way they have an abundance of healthy options to choose from when in a rush. Please understand that there are many different ways to meal prep depending on what helps you and your style of eating.

Some like to plan and box every single meal that they are going to eat, measuring out each food group perfectly. Although, this is a great way to stay on track, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the best method for everyone. Some people like variety and will fall off track if they eat chicken, broccoli and brown rice 7 nights a week for dinner (THAT’S ME!). And to some the extra step to boxing all of the meals are too much work.

The method that I like and teach is more of a plan that can be adaptable depending on what you’re feeling that day. Here it is step by step.

STEP 1: Choose 2-3 of your favorite things to eat for breakfast. 2-4 of your favorite snacks. 1-2 of your favorite lunches and 5-7 dinner recipes (Sometimes we eat out over the weekend so only need to plan for 5 or 6 meals.)

STEP 2: Make your grocery list based on your favorite meals that you listed from step 1. Hint: to keep cost down, plan to make double of your dinner recipes and eat the leftovers for lunches.

STEP 3: Once you purchase all of your groceries for the week you can prep some of the things you bought by making them more accessible and easy to eat and grab on the go.

– Slice all of your veggies and fruits that you know you will be too lazy to wash and cut up later. 😉

– Other things you could prep….

• Lets say one of your breakfast items is a veggie omelette with a piece of toast. Instead you could prepare an egg casserole so the morning of you can just slice, reheat and toast the bread.

• Or let’s say you need some cooked chicken for chicken tacos one night. Season and bake the chicken and slice it up so the night you have tacos all you need to do is build your taco.

• Now that everything is prepped ahead of time you can just build off of the things you’ve prepped throughout your week. And depending on what you want for your meal you have 2-3 healthy options to choose from rather than following a strict plan that can get pretty boring!

• The following week rotate in new, fun, healthy recipes!