Meal prep is defined as choosing a day to prepare your meals from start to finish. You will typically be making meals for longer than two days but less than four days, What you will be doing is planning the meal, cooking it, and packaging the meal and storing it in your fridge to be heated up and eaten at a later date
Meal prep has taken off in the more recent years because it has been shown to help people maintain their diet, Meal prep comes in handy when you are a busy parent and don’t have the time to be able to stand over a stove and cook a meal every night because you have to watch the kids or help with homework.
How long you plan to prep your meals is up to you. You may want to spend some hours in the kitchen preparing your meal for the next two to three days
If you are preparing meals for yourself, then it may only take you a few hours to do so. But if you are prepping food for the entire family, then you might be spending time more than you would when prepping only for yourself
When prepping meal for the family, make an individual container for every member ensure that they get an everyone gets an even portion of the food that you are making
This is also going to help lower the stress of someone being upset because they did not get enough food, or they did not get something that was cooked since someone else took the last of what was made, If you plan to do meals over four days, then you may want to consider freezing the meals so that they do not go bad and you don’t lose food
