How To Meal PrepMeal prepping is the best way to stay on track with your diet and avoid reverting back to old habits. Invest in some tupperware in different sizes, plastic baggies, a decent protein shaker, water bottle and cookware. Be ready to dedicate 2-3 hours a week to prepping your meals, and it will save you more time on a daily basis and help you avoid temptation. Also, if you are working or going to school, it will save you time, stress and money as far as food goes! There are a few

different ways to go about meal prepping, and I will list them for you.

1. The Sunday Ritual: Set aside 2-3 hours ever Sunday to prep your meals. Any day of the week would work, but Sunday is generally easiest for most. Write out your menu for the week, shop for the week, and prepare your meals for the week. 2. The Breakfast Ritual: For those that don’t want to dedicate all that time on one day, you can prep on a daily basis. You will prepare your meals for the day in the morning before breakfast. 3. Precooking Protein: 3. Precooking Protein: Regardless of which method you choose, you will always want to precook your protein. So either on Sunday or the day of: bake your chicken breast, cook your ground turkey, make your turkey/veggie patties/meatballs, etc. 4. Prechopping Veggies: I recommend chopping half of your veggies as soon as you get home from the grocery store, and separating them into plastic baggies - and then chopping the rest when you run out. Make sure they are stored properly in the fridge so they last! You can also premake your salads and prechop any fruit that you would like to have sliced or cut for smoothies and snacks. 5. Storing Your Premade Food: 5. Storing Your Premade Food: There are two methods of storing your food - tupperware and plastic bags. Tupperware is pretty straight forward, but for plastic bags, try this: buy some galloon sized Ziplock bags, and small sandwich sized bags. Label a galloon bag for each day of the week, and put your prepped meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks) in the smaller bags, then put those inside the gallon sized bags. And you have a bag of premade meals for each day of the week!

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by Natasha Rusilko