Many of us hear the phrase “meal prepping” and think of the many fancy blog post focused on “healthy eating” and how we can prep a weeks worth of food. This may discourage people due to the time and resources involved in meal prepping, but this can be easily solved. From personal experience as a student who is always busy, I find that meal prepping can be a great way to stop ourselves from eating fast food and can be done in a way that we can have a variety of options. For example, when grocery shopping, buy things that you like- do not buy items that you think are healthy and you should eat them because they are. This will only waste money and keep you hungry. I would recommend buying a group of foods that you would normally eat and make two meals per day with variety. This will stop the idea that the food is “boring” and provide you with options. According to Bulletproof blog, “For people who like to cook and serve food all at once, just prep parts of recipes. Chop veggies, mix spices, or marinade meat in advance to save time when you’re ready to cook”. This is great advice because cooking in two separate sessions can discourage us due to the time constraints. Healthline informs us that there are different ways to meal prep, ” here are many ways to meal prep, depending on your goals, schedule and meal preferences. Some options include making large batches to be frozen, full meals to be refrigerated and separate portions to be combined as you see fit” (Petre 1). I recommend picking a day that your schedule is not entirely booked and start cooking for the next week!
