Hi all, I usually have a meal plan, but it ends up going out the window halfway through the week for convenience sake. I feel that meal prepping might help, but not sure which approach I should take. When I was single, I was great at meal prep. I would prep individual ingredients (or make hummus, cut veggies, cut fruit, bake some chicken) and then combine them with different things throughout the week. I’ve tried this now and honestly I don’t feel that it saves me that much time. I still feel like meals and cleanup take a long time and I’m spending all day in the kitchen, so I get fed up mid week and eat out (healthy choices, but still not ideal). I know some people do a more extensive meal plan where they prep full meals and freeze them for a whole month and meals can just be thrown in a crock pot. The only thing is we have a ton of frozen meat (1/8 cow plus some chicken, pork, lamb, and fish) which obviously cannot be refrozen once thawed, so I can’t really prep any of that in advance
Right now I feel that I’m either eating great and spending 90% of my day in the kitchen cooking and cleaning (things take extra long with a needy toddler) or I’m eating mediocre (takeout but mostly healthy choices)but actually have free time which I so need.
So my question is: will meal prepping help this significantly at all, or am I bound to always be in the kitchen? If meal prep does free up your time, I would love practical tips!
TIA
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