Meal Prepping

Kamryn Domenick
Dieting and Fitness
2 min readDec 10, 2018

Meal prep is the weekly preparation of meals for a period of time usually longer than 2 days. Social media and the online fitness community are helping the meal prep approach to nutrition has gained great popularity among those seeking to maintain a consistent diet that meets their dietary and fitness goals. Meal prepping saves time, saves money, and helps you stay on track with your dieting. If you are considering meal prepping you need to make sure that you are willing to spend time on this and add different varieties of food. The importance of meal prepping includes, achieving your fitness and dieting goals, reducing waste, and saves time and many more.

The most popular ways to meal prep include:

  • Make meals ahead: Meals cooked in advance which can be refrigerated and reheated at mealtimes. This is particularly handy for dinnertime meals.
  • Batch cooking: Make large batches of a specific recipe, then splitting it up into individual portions to be frozen and eaten over the next couple months.
  • Individually portioned meals: Preparing fresh meals and portioning them into individual grab-and-go portions to be refrigerated and eaten over the next few days.
  • Ready to cook ingredients: Prepping the ingredients required for specific meals ahead of time as a way to cut down on cooking time in the kitchen.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/how-to-meal-prep#methods

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