5 Ways To Make Meal Prepping Easier

You guys already know how essential nutrition is to achieving your fitness goals. Meal prepping is one of the most effective ways to ensure that you eat healthy throughout the week and stay on track with your diet.

But, preparing your meals can be difficult when you have a full-time job and a family to care for.

Everyone is busy these days, and meal prepping can be one more responsibility you are not excited to take on. Yet, it doesn't have to be annoying or tedious.

Meal prepping can be easy to do every week if you follow the five strategies below. Enjoy

1. Mix-and-match your meals to add variety.

• Depending on how you like to eat, you have a couple of options for meal prep: If you don't mind eating the same thing for days on end, you could make one or two dishes to reheat throughout the week. However, if you like to mix it up each day, you'll want to prep a few meal components, including proteins, vegetables, and a grain that you can mix and match into different meals throughout the week (depending on your fitness goals). Perhaps one day, you eat them in a rice bowl, and the next, you mix your protein of choice and roasted vegetables up in a salad. Choose the method that feels right for you.

2. Incorporate various sauces into the meals to add flavour.

• Mix up a small batch of vinaigrette each week for your salads, and have a few bottled sauces or salsa on hand. These sauces can be mixed with proteins or vegetables in a mix-and-match method to dramatically transform them into totally different meals with little to no effort at all. When you enjoy the way your meals taste, you will be much more likely to stay committed to meal prepping.

3. Invest in high-quality storage containers.

• When you decide to bring your lunch to work, you know one of the biggest challenges would be getting it to the office. Investing in high-quality containers can be a total game-changer. Glass containers can be much more durable and last for a longer time than cheap plastic ones. An added benefit of this is the money you will save on replacing your food storage containers.

4. Use your freezer

• Find ways to maximize your freezer so you can keep staples on hand for those moments when meal prep doesn't go as planned. Foods such as frozen vegetables for a stir fry, fruit for a smoothie, or some frozen chicken can become life-savers when you need a quick meal that you weren't planning for

5. Don't skip out on breakfast.

• There tends to be an enormous focus on lunch and dinner when it comes to meal prep, but making a batch of hard-boiled eggs or overnight oats at the beginning of the week can make mornings run a lot smoother. And if you're hesitant about diving into full lunches or dinners for meal prep, starting with some smaller breakfast items can be a less intimidating way to ease yourself into meal prepping.

Meal prepping has several benefits. It can be significantly cheaper than having to dine out. Also, when you meal prep, chances are higher that you can eat nutritious meals that are in line with your fitness goals. By following the above five strategies, you can feel confident that meal prepping will be easier for you and your family.

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Meal Of The Week

Quick & Easy Meatballs

Ingredients

1 lb. (500g) lean ground beef

1 small onion, finely diced

2 garlic cloves, minced

1 red pepper, diced

1 egg

? cup (30g) buckwheat flour

? cup coriander, chopped

1 tsp. oregano

12 slices streaky bacon

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).
2. Place all the ingredients apart from the bacon in a bowl, season with salt and pepper and mix well using your hands. Once everything is well combined, form 12 meatballs the size of a golf ball (use a ? cup for measuring).?
3. Wrap each meatball in a slice of bacon and place on a baking sheet. Bake for 20 minutes. For the last 4-5 minutes, set the oven to grill/broil for the meatballs to have a crispy outside layer.

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