I don’t always do my meal prepping on Monday, but when I do, I want it to be fast and easy! Sound like your style of meal prep too?
Here are five of my go-to’s when it comes to making meal prepping on Monday easy and smooth, especially when you need to do it at 8:00pm!
Hope you enjoy a few of these fun faves of mine. I only pick items I love and use, so you can trust that they will not disappoint! We do share affiliate links and make little income when you buy items, this way I can keep trying new things and sharing them with you!
1. KISS: Keep it Simple with Salad
You know what they say, “a salad a day keeps the saddle bags away.” 🙂 No? Well, in my mind it’s a nice theory, so I’m gonna keep on prepping salads for lunch as many days of the week as I can. We buy romaine hearts, either a 3 pack at the grocery store or a 6 pack at Sams/Costco and go to town chopping. I highly recommend a basic salad spinner to make the washing and storing process go quicker.
Prep Your Lunch *bonus*
You have the lettuce out and ready to go, now just go ahead and get a few salads prepped for lunch.
2. Homemade Honey Peanut Butter
Once you make this, you will NEVER want to over-pay for natural peanut (or almond) butter at the grocery store and you’ll certainly never want to eat the mass produced PB either. In five minutes you can make your own perfectly smooth and insanely delicious homemade nut butter. If almond butter is your thing, you’ll make it the same way, you just need more patience as it takes twice as long for the almonds to breakdown and smooth out. But totally worth it!
3. Where’s the Beef?
Right here! How it took us so long to discover how amazing flank steak was, I’ll never know. But it has become our favorite cut of red meat to meal prep with. I love it because my husband wants to be involved with meal prep, we all love it because it cooks fast, is super tender and you an make a ton without spending a ton of cashola. Winning!
4. Rotisserie Chicken
One of the staples on our grocery list each week is chicken. Sometimes I’ll throw a few breasts in the crock pot with BBQ sauce, teriyaki sauce or salsa verde (and a beer), then pop it in the mixer and shred it! Other times, we just pick-up a rotisserie chicken and call it good. No dishes to clean up, and you have tender white and dark meat to mix in with your red meat throughout the week!
5. The Perfect Food – Eggs!
Yes, it’s true. So, get a dozen out, boil them up to perfection, and have ’em on hand for a quick compliment to your breakfast or for a snack. For a long time eggs got a bad wrap. Do they have good or bad cholesterol? Is the yolk all fat and the white all protein? Do I eat both or just the white? Â Well I pulled a few fun facts from this Healthline article. It’s your body, you make the choice. But I’d eat an egg over about any other food, all day long!
One large egg contains:
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- Vitamin B12Â (Cobalamin): 9% of the RDA.
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- Vitamin B2Â (Riboflavin): 15% of the RDA.
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- Vitamin A: 6% of the RDA.
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- Vitamin B5Â (Pantothenic Acid): 7% of the RDA.
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- Selenium: 22% of the RDA.
- Eggs also contain small amounts of almost every vitamin and mineral required by the human body… including calcium, iron, potassium, zinc, manganese, Vitamin E, Folate and many more.
A large egg contains 77 calories, with 6 grams of quality protein, 5 grams of fat and trace amounts of carbohydrates.
It’s very important to realize that almost all the nutrients are contained in the yolk, the white contains only protein.
Hope this gives you a few quick and easy things to add to your meal prep list list. Even if you only have time to do one of them, it can help set you up for a healthier week!
xo, Tiff