5 Quick Tips for Meal-Prepping

5 Quick Tips for Meal-Prepping : One of the number one tools for successfully adhering to a healthy diet is meal-prepping. It is an amazing skill to have, though it might seem like a daunting task to begin with. Therefore, we have collected the 5 quick tips for a successful entry to the meal-prep lifestyle.

Always make a meal plan

“If you fail to plan, you plan to fail”

It is that simple. To increase your chances of a successful meal-prepping routine, you should spend some time planning ahead, outlining meals and recipes, making a grocery shopping list, and maybe taking stock of what you already have in your pantry. This way you will be more prepared for the actual meal-prepping and have planned ahead to make the whole task more efficient.
Schedule time to prepare the meals

The easiest way to incorporate meal-prepping into your routine is to make sure you make a designated time for planning, shopping for, and cooking the meals every week. The main key to success is simply to integrate the task into your routine and that way you can easily stay consistent.
Never forget to prepare snacks as well

Never forget to prepare snacks as well

It is often easy to make ambitious plans for the meals you want to eat in a day. However, most of us severely underestimate our own humanity, which often leads us to forget to prepare some much-needed snacks throughout the day. If we forget the snacks, we are more likely to deviate from the plan, and once we do, it is much more likely that we stop sticking to the plan altogether. Therefore, it can be a major benefit to prepare snacks as part of a meal-prep, so you can help yourself stay on track. A delightful snack can even be as simple as a protein powder shake!
Invest in quality food containers

One of the most essential tools for successfully and continuously meal-prepping is functional food containers. Most of us currently have that drawer filled with half sets of containers where either the lid is missing, or the box itself. To avoid the inevitable frustration of scouring the drawer for enough functioning sets of containers, it is well worth it to invest in a new set of quality food containers.

Before you go out and buy a new set, a good recommendation is to consider what you need from each container. Do you need to be able to microwave them? Put them in the freezer? Be good for transportation? Be dishwasher friendly? Then you can make sure that your choice of containers fit your needs, so they don’t become another source of frustration in the drawer.
Spice it up!

Unless vertical dieting is your thing, it can be hard to avoid growing tired of eating the same foods after only a couple of days. Using different herbs and spices to cook roughly the same meals can transform an Italian Bolognese into a Mexican taco filling, just from a change in spices.

Author :

This article is written by The Plant Era, a Copenhagen-based plant-based sports nutrition company which aims to design the future of nutrition. With plant-based protein and sustainable packaging The Plant Era is determined to enhance athletic performance, improve health, and accelerate the world’s transition to a more sustainable world by reducing the consumption of meat and dairy.