One of the most overlooked methods for a body transformation is your meal prepping
In my opinion, meal prep is one of the best methods to transforming your body and achieving your goals.
Having a whole armory of healthy and nutritious meals that you can call upon at any time that fits within your daily macronutrient limit ensures you stay on track in the diet area.
I can hear you saying that meal prep takes time or it’s too complicated to do, but it’s not. It just requires some deep thought and good schedule management.
Here are 5 simple methods on how you can improve your meal prepping strategies overnight!
Shopping
Have you ever gone into the supermarket to do a food shop and spent hours figuring out what you need to buy? It does happen and that is time consuming. All you need to do is to look at your/families weekly schedule and see how busy you may be. The busier you are, the more need for food prep. Most likely for lunch meals.
Simply write down on a piece of paper 3 ready to go meals that you can call upon anytime for lunch/dinner options that can be placed into a Tupperware and into the fridge for those busy days.
With those meals, simply write down all the ingredients you need onto a shopping list. This should only take 10 minutes maximum out of your day.
A great solution to this is buying foods in bulk. Meats, frozen vegetables, berries, are a great option as you cut them up and freeze them at any time and they do not lose their nutritional value compared to if they were on the self.
Batch Cook
One of the reasons why people hate meal prepping is because they try and cook each individual meal at a time. When meal prepping, figure out if you’re using the same main ingredient and batch cook it and then place it into your Tupperware.
Two great solutions for helping your meal prep is to chop all your veggies at once. For example, chop your onions, lettuce, spinach, anything you will eat. It just saves time doing it when you’re tired and “can’t be bothered”. One day you might like to have beef with veggies then the next day it’ll be beef with rice. Simply put the batched cooked beef into separate containers then add the rice and vegetables separately as well.
Make Some Overnight Oats
If you have a spare 50 seconds just before you go to bed, you must try this super tasty overnight oats recipe that will be ready to eat in the morning.
BBQ Chicken
When you’re meal prepping for a body transformation, having easily accessible foods that you don’t need to cook is essential. BBQ chickens are great for this. All you do is pull apart the chicken, place it in some Tupperware or the fridge then you’re away.
Use Your Slow Cooker
If you haven’t got a slow cooker then you’re missing out. A slow cooker is the best solution for cooking some foods when you have a super busy schedule. All you need to do is, fill the slow cooker up with some meat, vegetables and stock, then come back a fair few hours later and you have a meal for a couple of nights.
So even if you’re too busy to cook your food every night, these meal prep tips should enable you to become more prepared with your nutritional choices.
