Poll of the Day > How long should meal prep last?

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Talking breakfast, lunch and dinner for a week
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Zangulus posted...

4 minutes and 27 seconds. That's 267 seconds. A little over 10 seconds per meal for a full week.

You crazy!
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Up to you. If you are planning on freezing some you can make enough to last a whole month if you have the freezer space.

Most people shoot for 5-10 days.
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I cook on Sunday and eat it Monday through Friday. I cool five portions of each meal.
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Jen0125 posted...

I cook on Sunday and eat it Monday through Friday. I cool five portions of each meal.

What do you cook
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Depends. We choose our respective menus Sunday morning after we wake up, make the grocery list and then we go shopping after breakfast.

I have a ton of recipes saved in my fitness pal so I think of it like building a puzzle. Think of what I'm craving and try to build my puzzle to fit my macros.
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https://imgur.com/a/sZTuD

Here's what I'm eating this week. As you can see I have a difficult time getting some of my vitamins like potassium and iron some weeks. I've thought of taking an iron supplement because I don't eat a lot of red meat or veggies high in iron.
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How many meals?
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Jen0125 posted...

https://imgur.com/a/sZTuD

Here's what I'm eating this week. As you can see I have a difficult time getting some of my vitamins like potassium and iron some weeks. I've thought of taking an iron supplement because I don't eat a lot of red meat or veggies high in iron.

Woah, your eating the same thing all week? I mean, I have heard of other people doing this, but usually the moms etc pool together and each prep a different meal, then all share them (So you get 7 dishes each).

So many things you can prep and then just cook at will.

Like stir fry is super fast to heat up, and you can prep it for months in advance. Just mostly freeze (not all the way), your meats and then slice them very thin and store them in the freezer in a big glad bag. Steak/Chicken/Pork heck even Shrimp if you want (don't slice the shrimp). Cut up and freeze your bell peppers/onions etc, and all you need to do to put together a yummy stir fry is boil water for your noodles while you sautee the veggies and then finally the meat at the end, and toss the noodles in. Takes about 15 minutes (saying it takes 5 minutes for your water to boil).

Thing is, you can really mix up what you use in your stir fry (Doesn't even have to be noodles) with different meats, so you can have alot of variety, but still cook it the same way/super fast every day.

Same goes with pasta sauce, just make a big old batch, then freeze them in those individual smaller freezer bags (just enough sauce for 2, but if you do it for yourself you can fill it up only half way). Gonna have pasta the next night? Just grab a frozen bag out of the freezer and toss it in the fridge and you'll be set (you can heat it up from frozen but it's faster this way).

I get doing meal prep for complicated stuff etc, but there are so many very yummy options that you can prep waaay in advance and that taste insanely good. Same goes for tacos...why eat at taco bell, when you can bbq some steak on the weekend, then store it in the fridge and just dice it up/fry it up quickly to make super delicious tacos any time(in like 5 minutes). Little oil on the bottom of a pan, while you start to heat up your diced steak, then toast the tortilla's in that oil/steak grease, dice some yummy tomattos and if you like it toss some diced onion on top. A bit of lettuce and (for most) cheese and your in taco heaven in a few minutes.

Seriously don't eat just one meal, there are just too many yummy choices!!
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I'm not reading all of that. Yes I eat the same thing all week.
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wolfy42 posted...

Seriously don't eat just one meal, there are just too many yummy choices!!

this is exactly why I made this topic. It would be a veyr long (albeit fun( thing to cook all different meals during the weekend

It's just I don't have the time or money (to get people to cook for me...)
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it takes me 2-2.5 hours to cook all my food for the week on sunday. then i just heat my food up in the microwave through out the week.
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Eating the same thing all week, so boring.
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Lots of people do it.
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Doesn't make it less boring.
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idk i think it's fine
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but you can meal prep anyway you want, tc. make a ton of rice and a few different proteins spiced different ways. make a scrambled egg based and add different veggies/cheeses to different containers. whatever works for you.
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Some of those calorie counts seem off. 1.5 tbs of cream cheese only 38 calories?

Jen0125 posted...

https://imgur.com/a/sZTuD

Here's what I'm eating this week. As you can see I have a difficult time getting some of my vitamins like potassium and iron some weeks. I've thought of taking an iron supplement because I don't eat a lot of red meat or veggies high in iron.

lol rc

also I eat the same thing all week too. it's hella easier to meal prep.

honestly the longest part of it is portioning that shit out at the end cause I weigh it out.
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PotD got so boring.

Archgoat posted...

Some of those calorie counts seem off. 1.5 tbs of cream cheese only 38 calories?

yeah it's whipped cream cheese.

Smarkil posted...

honestly the longest part of it is portioning that shit out at the end cause I weigh it out.

yeah i don't get that into it so my calorie counts are all like "ideal" on myfitnesspal but probably vary in real life. i measure out every thing precooked and then just eye ball it so it all looks even at the end. it all should end up being the same calorie count by the end of the week though which is what really matters.
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I take half an hour to make bacon, but you'll melt.
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