Healthy foods prepared in advance?

You learn as you go. It depends a lot on how many people you need to feed, too.

As you go along, you'll start realizing what will help you and what won't. You adapt and tweak ings to fit your own needs.

Roasted chickpeas, soups and chilies that I freeze in serving sizes, I keep spicy bean burgers by Morningstar for grab and go lunches. I will spend an hour and measure out servings of my munchies (chips, crackers, candy- anything I may binge on if not divided up).

Just be a perpetual motion machine. Come home from store, and prep veggies before you put them in the fridge.

Every Monday I make a double batch of smoothies, in my vitamix. I do a complete first one with veggies, (celery, carrots, spinach, a cucumber), protein powder, water, flaxseed, and wheat germ. Put it in a big Tupperware and do a second batch with Greek yogurt, water, and whatever fruits I have on hand. I then mix the two together and have smoothies for the week. I pretty much cook all of our dinners, but most meals. I always cook enough for two so we have another helping of leftovers and I also look for recipes that freeze well and try to make a second, of those, to put one in the freezer. It really is true that if you spend an afternoon, on Sunday, or whatever is one of your days off, preparing it pays off in the end. Another thing I do, with my vitamix, is if I have something I am going to cook, later in the week, that needs the veggies, cheese, or whatever cut up, I will do it in my vitamix, put it in Tupperware, label the Tupperware, and it is ready for when I am ready to cook that meal. Almost everything that I cook I add extra veggies to.

I make meals on the weekends when I have more free time and then reheat them during the week. I've found that beans and bean soups, vegetable soups, rice or other grains, turnip/mustard/collard greens are all foods that reheat well and can simmer in a crock pot or cook in a rice cooker while you are doing other errands around the house. Don't have to be stood over. Some of them are even better after a few days.

Keeping bags of frozen vegetables around is good, too--I like the kind you can just microwave right in the bag. If you prefer freshly cooked veggies, then do the washing and chopping when you have the free time, then just do a quick steam at the last minute.

Pre-chop veggies for your salads, store in ziplock bags, and quickly assemble.

Sweet potatoes and baked potatoes can be pre-washed and then just cooked quickly in the microwave.

You can also pre-cook/chop fillings for fajitas or tacos and then assemble last-minute.