Anyone doing meal prep?

[MrTroll]

well, even fresh arby's isn't very much better.

Arby's is like wine, it's better when it ages.

 

[Jeffrey Epstein]

Arby's is like wine, it's better when it ages.

no it's not, and neither is tommy tooter, except both are true in his mind most likely.

 

[Spiny Rumples]

I'd like to get into more meal prep, but currently what I'm doing is getting more bulk, lasting ingredients and using them for meals.

Flour, oats, eggs, condiments, rice, plant powders, etc. (side note: I strongly recommend no-knead bread such as this recipe. It's easy and tough with deep flavors)

It'd be nice to have something I can just warm and eat with minimal cleanup after a rough night's sleep.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

I like to meal prep for work.
Otherwise I'll make food fesh.

 

[MembersSchoolPizza]

Sorta half and half.

I'd say about 4 meals a week are purposed cooked for that meal. 2 are leftovers from the other four, although that might be just reheating the same meal, or doing something like a chicken pot pie or chicken fried rice from leftover roast chicken. About once a week, though, I fix something that's easier to scale up than not, fix a lot, and put aside several meals in freezer containers. Enchiladas or tamales, lasagna, soups and chilis, pasties, sausage gravy, biscuits, things like that. Then I just use those to fill out the occasional "Nothing in the fridge for leftovers, can't' be arsed to cook" nights, or when they sound good specifically.

The only meal I specifically make to freeze up is breakfast burritos.

 

[An Ghost]

I make a weeks worth of lunches on Sunday because I cook dinner every night and my SO eats the leftovers for lunches because theyre working from home. I think eating is mostly a chore so i dont mind eating the same stuff for a week. I dont go out for lunch and I tell people its because its cheaper but its mostly to cover for my crippling social anxiety.
This week is beef stew and mashed potatoes. Sometimes its just steak and rice and beans.

 

[a terminal posture]

When I worked in an office I would cook a big batch of something that reheats well (stews, casseroles, etc.) and bring it to work to eat for lunch. This really motivates you to cook well or else you're stuck eating bland food for days. Weirdos who actually make these individually packaged meals with mains, sides, dessert etc can diaf.

 

[XYZpdq]

Precisely the reason I prefer glass whenever possible, even if it's more expensive. As long as you don't drop it I feel it lasts much longer than nasty, discolored plastic.

You can just take stuff out of the container, too.
I usually reheat leftovers in a ceramic bowl with a matching plate on top, so the microwave heats the container which then heats the food rather than nuking the food directly.

 

[Freshly Baked Socks]

I usually reheat leftovers in a ceramic bowl with a matching plate on top

Learning this trick (lids on cups, bowls over plates) cuts >90% of the need to clean the microwave of splatter in laboratory testing.

Some testers had trouble adjusting to the sound of the lid chirping as steam escaped.

 

[Reverend]

We meal prep by making dinners fresh and using the leftovers as lunches through the week using actual Pyrex which holds things in nicely and heats well. Furthermore, we use a shared calendar so we know what meals are to be cooked so whomever gets home first starts to cook the food with the included recipe. Everything is bought on Sunday (meats that can be frozen or produce that won't go bad) or day of (certain veggies) with a vegetable side at all times. If you aren't eating greens daily your health WILL suffer. Sure there's you genetic mutants out there who live on Vodka, Cigarettes, and Pickles and don't get sick but that's not me.

 

[Niggernerd]

I live in texas, we don't have food right now NIGGA.
But yea, my neighbors meat looks a bit gamey but it'll do.

 

[SomeVulgarFujoshi]

I've been trying to get into it myself. I'm down to eat the same thing everyday for a week but it's the next week that gets dicey. Also trying to be more plant based, basically just meat with dinner, if at all. Thing is, tofu and shit sucks, and i don't wanna eat just vegetables.
I used to do it tho and lost a ton of weight. It's super great if you can commit.

 

[An Ghost]

Learning this trick (lids on cups, bowls over plates) cuts >90% of the need to clean the microwave of splatter in laboratory testing.

Some testers had trouble adjusting to the sound of the lid chirping as steam escaped.

Just do low and slow. Ive never had anything explode reheating at like 60 or 70% power. Max power cooks meats extra too.

Never meal prep anything with tumeric if you value your tupperware. I use glass only but its still the worst to clean.

 

[Yeeted Teet]

I make big pots of soup a couple of times a week and then eat them for lunch because the texture doesn't change after a day or two or when they're reheated.

Most other things I cook fresh every day because they just taste better.

 

[felix el gato]

I make fresh foods everyday but make big pots of things so the cooking isn't as big of a task. About once a week I'll make a big pot of rice, about a pound of beans, and I also make chicken broth so I can tear the chicken for salads or burrito bowls. So if I wanna make a burger I'll make the patties and fries from scratch.. if I'm lazy I'll grab the prepped rice, beans and end up with a burrito bowl.

 

[TheShedCollector]

One of my best meal preps is the breakfast burrito.

Exact recipie varies depending on what vegetables I have and need to use quickly, but typically 2.5kg sausage meat, at least 4 diced onions, at least 4 diced bell peppers, chopped mushrooms and whatever other vegetables I need to use, wrap a whole stack of them up individually in foil and you have a month of protein rich breakfasts ready to go.

 

[Goyslop Muncher]

One of my best meal preps is the breakfast burrito.

Exact recipie varies depending on what vegetables I have and need to use quickly, but typically 2.5kg sausage meat, at least 4 diced onions, at least 4 diced bell peppers, chopped mushrooms and whatever other vegetables I need to use, wrap a whole stack of them up individually in foil and you have a month of protein rich breakfasts ready to go.

i used to do this and also burritos for lunch. I'd go to Aldi or Gordon food service and buy tortillas , refried beans, ground beef, cheese. onions, and red sauce. make a batch of like 50 and freeze them. they reheat well in the microwave or oven and you can finish them in a pan with some butter. very cheap way to eat a decent meal. sometimes add Mexican rice too.

 

[Henry of Skalitz]

I cook when I can, or can afford to make something worth saving.

For meal prep, I make 15 and 1/2 quarts of gumbo in my Large and In charge Le Creuset, and "my way," which is VERY long and Tedious. Then I have some with steamed rice and bag up the rest 3 ladel spoon fulls in quart sized bags (and freezing them all is an EXTRA pain in my ass) but I get like 15 days worth of food, depending on how hungry I am. Working on making a Seafood Boiullabassie and Butternut Squash variant that I can freeze. I've made these soups for a few soirees and they were Epic.

I was also gifted 3 frozen turkeys for Thanksgiving and am working to cook and meal prep them, this way. Maybe add more aromatics to the roasting turkey and turning off the heat for my fond, then finely brunoise a shallot for my fond, adding butter to cool and making a better gravy with the stock, but with a DARKER roux. I'm going to have Turkey stock and Turkey for days. Oh and Vacuum sealing the Turkey I don't eat within it's refrigerated spoil by date.