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Save Time With These Meal Prep Strategies

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Meal planning can be a useful strategy to help you stick to your food goals, improve your eating habits, and save time. An added benefit of إعداد الوجبات? People who meal prep tend to eat out less, which has huge cost savings over time. 

Here are 5 ways to start, or restart, meal planning!

1. Stock up your pantry

It’s a lot easier to meal prep when you have a full pantry. Think through what your staples should be—such as beans, brown rice, nuts, and seeds—and make sure you have plenty stocked.

When you have the basics on hand, you don’t have to spend as much time trying to figure out what you’ll make. Then, if something comes up that disrupts your plan, you’ll still have healthy options that are easy to whip up.

When you’re ready ahead of time, life can happen without upsetting your plan.

2. Build up to a full menu

When you try to plan what you’ll eat ahead of time, you realize something — people need to eat often!

Diving right into planning all meals and snacks may work for some, but for others, the idea of that much preparation can feel insurmountable. It doesn’t have to be all or nothing. You can begin slowly and work your way up to a full menu.

Slowly increasing which and how many meals you plan and prep for can increase your rate of success because you experience changes gradually and build on your accomplishments.

3. Get the family involved

If you’ve got younger children at home, have them help you plan and prep family meals. It gives them insight into what makes a healthy meal, have ownership over the meal, and provides opportunities to try new foods.

Putting them in charge of some of their own meal prep also takes the responsibility off of you and hands it over to them (yay!). Plus, the critical thinking and measurement involved in recipe building and meal preparation are great real-life lessons for children to think through.

Encouraging other people in your home to help with meals lets you connect with them in new ways.

4. Know who you’re cooking for

Cooking for other people can give you insight into their personalities. Knowing what they like and don’t like to eat — and honoring those preferences — is a way of showing you care.

But wanting to cook someone’s favorite foods doesn’t mean you need to cook completely separate meals. You can bring the two together by using your family’s preferences to guide your menu and encourage healthier, more mindful eating.

It’s not just children who have strong food preferences. Adults can also follow specific plans or diets. If this is the case in your home, meal planning will still work. When people in your family have specific dietary needs, you may need to do more initial planning, like determining which foods can be cooked together. Over time, the planning will become second-nature.

5. Make time to prep

Adding one more to-do to your list may sound impossible, but it will help in the long run. By making a set time for meal prep—such as Sunday afternoons, in the morning, etc.—you can make eating healthy easier. When you’re busy, the food is already cut, mixed, and assembled. All you need to do is heat it up (if needed) and serve!

Preparing meals at home and prepping for them ahead of time also has a cost-saving benefit. When you plan your meals for the week, you can incorporate some of the same ingredients into several meals. It allows you to maximize the use of your grocery store run, and it eliminates food waste because you won’t forget about that half of a bell pepper sitting in your fridge.

Even though we know how beneficial meal prep can be for our health, time, and wallets, it can still slide down on our priority list until we just don’t do it. There’s a way around that — incorporate it into your existing weekly routine.

 

If you want to explore meal planning or create a healthy eating routine, reach out to TaskHuman coaches for a 1:1 يعيش video call today.

 

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Updated January 2025

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