A meal prep guide
Meal prep for real weeks.
Start with how many meals you need and how much fridge space you have. Recipes and containers come after that.
Where to start
Decide a few things before you cook.
How many meals do you need? Will you eat them at home, take them to work, or freeze them? Once you know, picking recipes and containers gets a lot easier.
Read the starting guideGuides
Read this first.
Chicken meal prep: keep breast moist all week
Meal prep chicken breast for the week without drying it out, from the cutting board to the microwave.
Read the guide GuideHow to meal prep ground beef
One pan of ground beef, several different meals, and how to store it safely.
Read the guide GuideTest meal prep recipes in small batches first
Why a new recipe should earn a full batch, and how to tell when it has.
Read the guide GuideHow to start meal prepping
How to plan a few meals without spending all of Sunday in the kitchen.
Read the guideRecipes
Cook four portions at a time.
Homemade Ginger Chicken Teriyaki with Savory Jasmine Rice
Thin chicken cutlets in a ginger-garlic sauce, portioned over jasmine rice into four meals.
Cook the teriyaki chicken →RecipeInstant Pot Beef Stew with Seared Beef and Gold Potatoes
Beef seared in cast iron, pressure cooked in the Instant Pot, then finished with whole gold potatoes and carrots for four portions.
Cook the teriyaki chicken →How I recommend
I only recommend what I have used.
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