Happy Wellness Wednesday!
The Wellness Wednesday blog is designed to provide you with simple tools, information, and resources to encourage positive and healthy lifestyle choices. YOQI is committed to the health and wellness of our team, friends and family.
Mastering Meal Prep: Your Ultimate Guide to Efficient Cooking
Meal prep is defined as a time dedicated to cooking and preparing meals for the upcoming week for yourself or your family. Meal prep can be as easy as pre-chopping vegetables or as advanced as making a full gourmet meal!
What is Meal Prep?
Meal prep is defined as a time dedicated to cooking and preparing meals for the upcoming week for yourself or your family. Meal prep can be as easy as pre-chopping vegetables or as advanced as making a full gourmet meal!
A Beginner’s Guide
Let’s break down the process into 3 basic steps.
Find Your Motivation: What is currently making your mealtimes stressful? Are you running late in the morning and not having enough time to make a healthy breakfast, or would you like to save money on lunch by bringing instead of buying? Pick your biggest concern and let it remind you why you’re starting your meal prep journey.
Decide: Can you make one large batch of a meal to eat throughout the week? Or would you rather prep certain components of a meal, like pre-chopping veggies, cooking grains, or portioning your protein ahead of time? Choose an option that works best with your schedule.
Organise: To wrap up the planning stages, create a list of what you want to make and the groceries you’ll need to make your dishes.
Lastly, purchase your food items and prepare the meal!
Storage, Storage, Storage Galore!
After preparing all your beautiful food, it is important to have clean and easy-to-use containers to hold (and show off) your tasty creations.
Mason Jars: These Pinterest-worthy containers are trendy and cost-effective, you can even repurpose old jars! These are great to use for salads, overnight oats, smoothies, yogurt, soups, and even burrito bowls.
Glass Containers: This is a great option for larger dishes or meals that need to be microwaved. Glass is also a great alternative to plastic! If you’re worried about breaking glass or limited space, bamboo or steel containers are good alternatives as well.
No matter what you decide to use, make sure that you know how to clean your container and if it’s microwave safe!
