How do you spend your Sundays? If your Sundays include a little down time, turn that down time into a healthy start by prepping healthy meals and snacks to last you all week.
Why prep your meals?
It’s easy to lose sight of your healthy eating goals when your work week starts to get hectic and you’re running short on time. Instead of waiting until you’re hungry to decide what to eat, you can make healthy decisions while you are relaxed and thinking clearly. Preparing your meals in advance takes the decision-making out of a stressful week night and allows you to spend more time enjoying the fruits of your labor.
How to prep to eat all week.
Meal prepping in advance is easy if you have a plan. Spending a few minutes planning what you’ll want for meals and snacks before your weekly trip to the grocery store eliminates the guesswork, ensures you stay on track and on budget, and eliminates inconvenient midweek trips to pick up forgotten items. When you know in advance what you plan to make for the week, just find some spare time on a Sunday and bake, mix, and freeze anything you can to make dinner easier and far less time consuming.
Try it this week.
A few meals you can prepare in advance include:
Meal prepping may make your healthy eating goals easier and will definitely help you avoid the fast food drive through on those nights that you’re too tired to cook. Share your meal prep hacks and tips in the comment section below!
Why prep your meals?
It’s easy to lose sight of your healthy eating goals when your work week starts to get hectic and you’re running short on time. Instead of waiting until you’re hungry to decide what to eat, you can make healthy decisions while you are relaxed and thinking clearly. Preparing your meals in advance takes the decision-making out of a stressful week night and allows you to spend more time enjoying the fruits of your labor.
How to prep to eat all week.
Meal prepping in advance is easy if you have a plan. Spending a few minutes planning what you’ll want for meals and snacks before your weekly trip to the grocery store eliminates the guesswork, ensures you stay on track and on budget, and eliminates inconvenient midweek trips to pick up forgotten items. When you know in advance what you plan to make for the week, just find some spare time on a Sunday and bake, mix, and freeze anything you can to make dinner easier and far less time consuming.
Try it this week.
A few meals you can prepare in advance include:
- Salads are the perfect meal prep lunch or dinner because they are easy to prepare, full of valuable nutrients and filling veggies and easy to transport for a weekday lunch. Keep your salad dressing separate to avoid lettuce and veggies getting soggy before you are ready to eat. Or better yet, skip the dressing altogether and add fruits or olive oil for flavor without the artificial sugars and preservatives.
- Baked chicken. Chicken can be baked and then easily portioned into ready to go containers to either be reheated and served with a vegetable or thrown on top of a salad you’ve already prepped, making your meal prep twice as efficient.
- Fruits and veggies. Wash and cut fruits and veggies on Sunday nights so you have healthy, ready snacks on hand when hunger strikes. Just knowing you don’t have to wash and cut your veggies or fruits when you’re already hungry eliminates the convenience of reaching for a junk food.
- Prep your grains. Quinoa and couscous are both easy to prepare ahead of time and store in the fridge until you’re ready to eat. Making a pot of either healthy grains on Sunday night ensures that you have a ready to go option in the fridge to add to your baked chicken, a healthy omelet, or throw into a salad.
Meal prepping may make your healthy eating goals easier and will definitely help you avoid the fast food drive through on those nights that you’re too tired to cook. Share your meal prep hacks and tips in the comment section below!