Simple meal prep ideas?

I usually cook up an entire batch of meat at once, let cool slightly, toss into baggie(s) and refrigerate and/or freeze for later. Same with frozen bags of vegetables.

• Slice (if in whole roast form) and pan sear whatever you can fit in 1 or 2 skillets. Don't overcook. Cool and bag. (pork sirloin roasts slice up for some tasty pork chops and were on special for $2/lb last week at Aldi). Above also applies for fish.
• Frozen pre-cooked shrimp. (microwave for like 30 seconds and toss on top/to side of veggies).
• Throw whole pork roast or package of boneless/skinless chicken into crock pot/instapot/etc. Shred. Make chicken/pork salad (add mayo) or pulled pork/chicken (add BBQ sauce). Bag.
• Dump 1-2 bags of frozen veggies into skillet. When thawed, add some seasonings, drizzle some oil, cook a bit more. Cool a bit and bag.
• Chili/Soups/stew

When you're hungry, then just grab something out of a bag of meat and weigh onto plate, repeat with some vegetable, repeat with some filler carbs (if desired), and microwave (~2 minutes if from fridge rather than freezer). done.

Some ideas, also there are a lot of instagram ideas, if you want i will post them

My breakfast every day consists of:
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Buy the premade salads, there is microwave brown rice and most grocery stores have rotisserie chicken. Take off the skin and cut it up. Ready to go.

Pina Colada Green Smoothie
*1 cup pineapple chunks (fresh or canned in 100% juice)
*1 banana
1 cup fresh baby spinach
1 cup unsweetened coconut milk
1/4 cup ice
2 tsp raw honey (optional)

1. Add * pineapple & banana to ziploc bag (do not add the spinach - the citric acid from the pineapple can take away some of the nutrients from the spinach)
2. Make a week's worth
3. Freeze
4. Pull from freezer when ready to use & place in blender
5. Add remaining ingredients and blend to desired consistency.

NOTE: DOES NOT TASTE AT ALL LIKE SPINACH. My husband HATES spinach and he will drink these.

I usually add a scoop of Isopure Unflavored Protein to mine and sometime a sugarfree red bull.

Slow Cooker Hawaiian Chicken

Ingredients:
1 lb boneless skinless chicken breast cut into bite-sized pieces
1 fresh pineapple cut into bite sized pieces (can sub canned in 100% juice)
2 tbsp light brown sugar (I sub splenda brown sugar)
2 tbsp low sodium soy sauce

Add ingredients to freezer bag, adding the chicken last - remove as much air as possible from bag before closing.

The night before cooking, move frozen bag to the refrigerator to thaw.
Pour contents into slow cooker, cook on "LOW" for 3-6 hours, or until chicken is thoroughly cooked.

Great ideas!!!

I will start this post by stating, I can eat the same thing everyday, and I generally alter my menu week to week, NOT day to day.

SO....breakfast I make fresh every day (2 eggs and 2 slices 45 calorie bread), lunch this week is tuna with low fat ranch and either 8 saltines OR romaine lettuce. I open all my cans of tuna at the beginning of the week, then I separate them into sandwich bags with the ranch dressing. I will also portion the saltines in advance as well. Dinner this week is a filet of salmon, 113g brown rice, and 2 C broccoli. I also pre-portion that in the beginning of the week and pop it into the freezer. My two snacks for the day are a greek yogurt with a whole orange, and almonds with a string cheese. All of that is bagged at the beginning of the week. So then everyday, I just pop everything (except for breakfast) into my lunch bag.

No fuss, no pain....no thinking. I find that if I preplan, I tend NOT to binge or fall of track. I literally spend about 90 minutes TOTAL in my kitchen a week.


There you have it.
1200-1400 cals a day, down 55lbs.