Question for Meal Preppers

searsvls wrote: »

I find meal preppers facinating. I do well to make my breakfast and lunch the night before. I really would like to start doing it for several days in advance. I am just curious if preppers ever eat frozen meals and/or sandwiches in addition to their own meals. I love seeing the pictures that many of you post with the neat containers and the food measured out but I never see sandwich stuff. I understand about the bread setting soggy but do you ever make the filling and take bread on the side. I would like to hear your reasons for the way that you do things.

I don't eat sandwiches persay but do wraps with non-traditional wraps like Gem wraps (fruit leather-ish) and Coconut wraps. In that case I prep last minute but for real meals I do ahead. Like 10 chicken thighs, 24 Pork Apple poppers, 2 racks of ribs, 8 turkey burgers...you get the idea. Just make more of whatever you have and save the rest for laer.

I have tried meal prepping and it really helps me. I am not a sandwich person, but you could make the sandwich meats that you want and place them in the snack size Ziploc bags and place the breads in a normal Ziploc. I normally eat almonds, pecans & cashews for snacks and place those in the little 1/2 cup containers.

@DedRepublic - I am so incredibly inspired by your organization and dedication! It makes me want to go shopping RIGHT NOW to do all the prepping!

Before I got divorced, my routine would be to go grocery shopping on Sunday at 6 am, then spend the next few hours cooking, chopping and prepping the week's meals. It made my life with my kids and ex run so much more smoothly. Further, if someone needed a snack... BAM! Cut up peppers and hummus (or whatever it was). I could literally just pull food out of the fridge and have it on the table in a minute. I'm apparently just not as dedicated to prepping these days.

I meal prep on Sundays but just my proteins and whateverfruit I need to cut up. Breakfast is a smoothie I make at home or oats when I get to work. I don't do bread or frozen meals eitther jut cause I'm just not a fan. For the veggie portion I'm pretty lazy. I buy the Costco Spring Mix and take the whole container to work for the week and just make my salads there or I take frozen veggies. Sometimes I will make my own protein bars for snacks.

I use http://www.sixpackbags.com/ to transport my lunches and it helps me stay on track cause when I got my first bag I told myself if it didn't come in the bag with me to work I wouldn't eat it.

@DedRepublic, impressive meal prep and I thought I had a lot of shaker bottles!

Steph38878 wrote: »

@DedRepublic That truly is awesome!!

Thanks bud...it really makes your week easier.

Queenmunchy wrote: »

Love it! I want to make a video too!!

Do it!! And post here!!!


I really want you guys to understand something...I really...really...REALLY...LOVE BODYBUILDING...and have seriously come a long way....and I will never be who I used to be again...I mean...I had a big beer gut and was borderline alchololic 3 years ago.



That change will happen for you the moment you decide you want something MORE...something more than your (Vice, your cigarrette, your Netflix, Your Sweets, Your Football Game, Or in my case...alcohol). Once you want your results more than you want these other things your decision making will start to change...but NOT UNTIL THEN.

Your actions follow your heart. You sit there and say...wow...that meal prep stuff looks crazy, but if you decided that Fast Food was simply off the table, and no longer an option for you....then meal prep makes sense. Listen...I have made 10 pm trips on Sunday to Walmart because the Grocery Store was closed to get what I needed to be prepared for the coming week...and on that night I cooked into well past Midnight. As painful as that was I learned from it...and did not want to do it again.

So work on your processes...this will take some time to figure out how to be efficient...but I promise you...you will not regret it. You only have to prep for a week at a time once to experience the resuced stress of not having to worry about food all week.

This also means you get to hit your calorie goals because now you are making your weight loss a planned weekly measureable event that you are in total control off. Doesn't this feel empowering?

Oh yeah...and there is this pay off if feeling better, being healther, being stronger...and looking better naked...yeah I said it! So here's to all the meal preppers there grinding it out...

"We're all gonna make it brah!" - Aziz Shavershian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JdxbpCfiPU

I prepped my breakfast/lunch for the week last night, thanks to this thread! Ha ha. Dinner is easy - meat and veg in a pan... I don't mind doing that when I get home. Maybe next week I will prep for dinners, too.

I'd really like to get a bunch of protein shakers, that's such a great idea!

DedRepublic wrote: »

Katiebear_81 wrote: »

I prepped my breakfast/lunch for the week last night, thanks to this thread! Ha ha. Dinner is easy - meat and veg in a pan... I don't mind doing that when I get home. Maybe next week I will prep for dinners, too.

I'd really like to get a bunch of protein shakers, that's such a great idea!

You are doing this the right way...pick one meal at a time...then move to the next....in a month or so you'll have it all figured out.

Do you have the same thing each day?

I don't eat sandwiches and I mainly stick to the same foods: chicken, ground turkey, broccoli, zucchini, sweet potatoes and brown rice. I'm still new to meal prepping so eating the same foods until I get a super efficient system down keeps it less stressful. It takes me 2-3 hrs on Sundays.

icemaiden37 wrote: »

DedRepublic wrote: »

Katiebear_81 wrote: »

I prepped my breakfast/lunch for the week last night, thanks to this thread! Ha ha. Dinner is easy - meat and veg in a pan... I don't mind doing that when I get home. Maybe next week I will prep for dinners, too.

I'd really like to get a bunch of protein shakers, that's such a great idea!

You are doing this the right way...pick one meal at a time...then move to the next....in a month or so you'll have it all figured out.

Do you have the same thing each day?

When I was hardcore prepping, I'd set out my menu for the week, get it all prepped, then I could grab what I wanted to eat that day (out of the premade choices). I usually had a few different choices for each meal. I was mostly doing it for convenience (I have two small kids - smaller back then!), and so I knew that I was making good choices regarding nutrition and not defaulting to Little Ceasar's $5 pizzas.

This weekend I'm going to make some space in my upstairs freezer for some precooked meals. We're renovating the room my big freezer is in, and I won't be bothered to navigate that minefield right now I should have time on Sunday to make some dinners for the coming week.