If you’re following the 28 Day Weight Loss Challenge you’ll know the way a lot we imagine that meal prep is THE KEY to consuming effectively and shedding weight.
As part of the 28 Day Weight Loss Challenge we at The Wholesome Mummy usually discuss meal prep. The recipe hub is filled with recipes that you could make forward to save lots of your self time within the kitchen.
However if you happen to’re simply beginning out, there are just a few key errors you need to AVOID making if you’d like a stress-free expertise.
1. Not having all of the components you want
Upon getting determined precisely what you’re making, it’s time to make an enormous outdated buying checklist and get EVERYTHING on it.
There may be nothing worse than beginning your meal prep session solely to seek out that you’re lacking one important ingredient.
On-line buying will be actually useful right here as you’ll be able to test off your checklist as you go.
Right here’s easy methods to use the buying checklist function on the 28 Day Weight Loss Challenge app!
2. Making an excessive amount of of the identical factor
Meal prep is an effective way to be ready as a way to simply resist the urge to order take away whenever you’re too drained to prepare dinner.
However if you happen to make tooooo a lot of an excellent factor, you may end up dreading opening the freezer for a similar outdated usual meal. You possibly can simply combine issues up somewhat even with utilizing comparable components.
As an illustration you may freeze some Bolognese with pasta and a few with brown rice; or do half of your stir fries with pork and half with hen quite than all the identical meat.
3. Not shopping for sufficient containers
Can’t stress this sufficient! You’ll need A LOT of containers! A budget and cheerful take away type containers are standard with different Wholesome Mummies and can be found at most supermarkets.
Freeze in a means that fits you and your loved ones – it could be all single serves for you; otherwise you may wish to freeze household sized parts of meals that you’ll be able to simply defrost, warmth and eat.
You can too freeze snacks – however it’s greatest to snap freeze them first by inserting objects resembling bliss balls or slices onto a lined chopping board and freezing individually. Then you’ll be able to pop all of them in a ziplock bag and so they received’t all clump collectively.
4. Not having sufficient freezer area
Attempting to cram 40 containers right into a freezer that may solely match 20 is tremendous annoying and might find yourself resulting in meals wastage.
Have a freezer filter out earlier than you begin, and within the lead as much as your first meal prep session attempt to deplete something you may have in your freezer to make means to your new wholesome creations.
Positive that may imply some mish-mash dinners however that’s OK!
Don’t overlook you should use meal prep time to organize your meals for the week, that means you’ll be able to simply preserve it within the fridge. Assume yoghurt with honey and LSA, chopped fruit, vegetable batons and healthy dip. Something you can also make upfront will enable you to follow your wholesome consuming plan.
5. Not setting apart an excellent chunk of time to meal prep
You possibly can’t do an enormous prepare dinner up in an hour, so remember to give your self ample time to buy, unpack, chop, prepare dinner, cool, place in containers, label and freeze.
We love a Sunday afternoon prepare dinner up, however discover the time that fits you. If you will get the youngsters minded for the afternoon whilst you prepare dinner, all the higher.
Why not staff up with one other meal prep mum after which you’ll be able to thoughts her youngsters when she desires to prepare dinner?
6. Forgetting to label label label
You may assume you’ll bear in mind what’s within the freezer however to keep away from ‘shock dinners’ it’s greatest to label every little thing.
Use the format ‘meal identify, variety of parts, date of cooking’ so it’d seem like ‘Lamb and cheese meatballs, 1 serve, 23/1/18’
If different folks could be defrosting the meals you can additionally embrace extra information resembling ‘defrost in a single day after which reheat on the range till piping scorching.’
You possibly can write on the plastic tubs with a black Sharpie, or place a strip of tape on them to write down on. Put the labels on the SIDE in order that whenever you stack them you’ll be able to see what you may have at a look.
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