Meal prep and planning is not all about just cooking and throwing the meals into a container. There are certain things you need to do to begin prepping meals before you even start cooking. These basics will help you keep to a meal plan and help you budget it out before heading to the store. Here are a few of those basics to keep in mind.

Set Aside a Day

The key to making meal prepping work before you even start is to set aside a day for the prep and cooking. You may think that prepping should not take long, so you could do the next day of food the night before. The truth is that can become very stressful overtime and you may forget something or just not feel like doing it. Continue reading →

Not all of your meals are going to be prepared ahead of time and frozen. In some cases, you are just going to freeze certain ingredients that are then used as prepped parts of a meal, but put together at a later date. Here are some healthy meal ingredients that are good for putting in the freezer.

Veggies

The first type of ingredient that works great in the freezer is your veggies. Whether this is greens you tear apart and put in a container to be used for salads, or chopped celery, carrots, and corn for soup and stew, you will love having frozen veggies always on hand.

Vegetables can be purchased n bulk from health food stores or farmer’s markets, then added to your freezer containers to be used later on. They don’t even need to be defrosted before adding to some meals if you don’t want to. This keeps you from having spoiled veggies. Continue reading →