I love how a simple homemade meal can feel filling, colourful and satisfying. You don’t always need an expensive takeaway to enjoy a nice dinner!

First time poster! Sunday meal prep shown here.

Breakfast: chocolate chip pancakes

Lunch: lentil soup

Dinner: bell peppers, onions, black beans, rice. Avocado and lime not pictured.

Made beef bowls with potatoes, beef, queso, rice and green beans

Salmon bowls with broccoli, rice, kimchi, avacado and cucumbers

I'm starting off very simple. My goal is for the next month, prep and make my own breakfast everyday (or atleast on the weekdays). I live with my mom who cooks dinner and we don't have much storage for me to meal prep breakfast lunch and dinner, plus im very ADHD so I doubt id be able to do all that by myself at the moment anyway. I decided that since im not very good at cooking and i struggle alot with feeding myself and cleaning up after myself this could be like me doing a free trial to living on my own.

Cooking my own meal everyday and not wasting money on fast food anymore is my main goal. Rn I'm starting off extremely simple, breakfast sandwich with bagels, eggs and probably spinach because i desperately need more fiber lol. We also keep potatos pretty regularly at the house so ill use those for hashbrowns on the days i have time to or feel like it.

How does this sound though? I went over the meal prep beginner post thats pinned in the sub and i think this is pretty solid, does this feel like its missing something?

And most importantly if you have any breakfast food suggestions id love to hear them. My budget is 15 dollars for each grocery run. I get a small 6 pack of eggs that are about 88¢ to 1$, bagels are about 3-4$ and spinach is 2-3$. That leaves me about 5-7ish$ dollars left to spend. I'm trying to stay away from deli meats and heavy meats like sausage and bacon because they aren't really the best for you and im also dealing with stomach issues so light, easy to digest foods are best for my breakfast.

I meal prep five lunches for the workweek, and my doctor has recommended cutting back on red meat and eating more chicken and fish.

Chicken is easy enough, but I'd like to have fish or seafood a couple of days a week for some variety. My main concern is the smell. I don't want to bring something to the office that smells strongly of fish and bothers my coworkers.

I'm happy to eat it cold, so I wouldn't need to microwave it at work. Are there any types of fish or seafood that work particularly well for meal prep and don't have much of a smell? Any recipes or cooking tips would be appreciated!

I want to get this chicken but obviously i’m not going to eat it all in one sitting. How do i store this? Should i just take out the amount i want then freeze the rest? i know i can refrigerate it if i cook all and then portion it out but i dont plan on having it every single day. what should i do?

Ground turkey/quinoa/black beans/broccoli. Chicken/quinoa/black beans/broccoli. Salmon/quinoa/black beans/broccoli. Chicken breast/potatoes/mixed veggies. So satisfying to look at and eat

My partner drives about an hour to work and usually eats breakfast on the way. We’ve done breakfast burritos and English muffin sandwiches, but I’d love some ideas to change things up for him.

He leaves very early in the morning, so there’s not much time for breakfast prep. Ideally I’m looking for make-ahead, microwaveable breakfasts that are easy to eat one-handed while driving.

What are your favourite grab and go breakfast ideas?

Here's breakfast, snacks, lunch and dinner for the day. If I get a serious workout in tonight I'll have something to fuel up afterward to!

Trying to get back in the habit of meal prepping & not eating out.

This week has been already exhausting but I still did it! 4 meals.

4 sweet potatoes, 1 lb ground beef with taco seasoning, roasted veggies, pico de gallo, guac and Greek yogurt I use like sour cream. My favorite meal prep 😋

Hello everybody, I can’t seem to make up my mind about this, so I wanted to ask you all about your experience/opinion
I’ve been interested in buying a new air fryer for a while now, but I couldn’t decide which brand I should go for, then I learned about airfryer oven combos and now I’m questioning if I should go for that instead
I make pretty big meal preps, which is the big con against a standalone airfryer, but everywhere I read everyone says that air fryer ovens are not as good as normal air-fryers when it comes to efficiency and texture, i would be ok with that if the airfryer oven is as good on the other departments such as baking
I have a gas oven, which is pretty old, and while it helps me tremendously when making sweet potatoes (I go trough 13lbs of sweet potatoes a week) it’s a pretty clunky experience
So I want to ask you all your experience and advice on whether an air fryer oven is worth it or I should get a normal airfryer and stick with my old oven
The thing is that air fryer ovens are not that big to make that huge of a difference in meal prepping, I think? correct me if I’m wrong
If it is worth getting one, which one is the best? Or if it’s better to get a normal air fryer which one should I go for? Right now my focus is more on meal prepping but individual meal on meal experience is also appreciated
Thank you for your time, have a nice day

Hello! For a few months I’ve been preparing meals for the day on the evening. Now wanted to step on a new level of meal prepping :))

So my goal will be to prep for 3 days on Sunday, then on Wednesday prep for the next 3 days. Sunday will be my „cheat day” as I am often out of town.
It takes me about 1.5h to make all of this, pancakes being the longest one.

My meals focus on being high on protein, not expensive and including nutritious ingredients.

Breakfast: Apple pie oatmeal
~500 kcal ~30g. of protein
I put dry ingredients in a jar and then in the evening the night before I add yogurt, maple syrup and apple pure. I have to buy bigger jars…

Lunch: Cottage cheese pancakes with berries
~840 kcal ~73g. of protein
with a drizzle of maple syrup and frozen berries which I add a night before.

Dinner: à la Chilli con carne with gnocchi
~775 kcal ~41g. of protein
My favourite meal those days, filling and deep tasting.

Snacks: I eat store bought gummy bears or potato chips which add another 400-500 kcal a day. Yeah, it’s not the greatest of habits but keeps me sane.

Thanks for reading!

What I’d cook for you if we were dating but since you ain’t responding so imma meal prep 😎

Edit: This post turned out to be my most upvoted post in all of my Reddit history. Thank you for all the love and happy cooking :)

I'm in need of some work lunch meal prep ideas for a blue collar man who works 13 hours a day. Doesn't have to be the "healthiest" but must be filling without being too heavy. He's very much a beef and rice kind of guy. Doesn't want anything too gassy and minimal vegetables. I've been doing beef fajita bowls with rice but would like some other ideas as well! What are your go tos? TIA ☺️

Almost broke down at work from exhaustion but here we are, cooking i guess. Watched ted lasso, while stoned, and made some simple pesto pasta.
Edit: just dropped more than one half of a container. I’m actually gonna crash the fuck out. I swear to fucking god.

Decent prep for the week?

I’ve been trying to bring hot home cooked meals to work, but every time I pack rice or pasta in my thermal container, the trapped residual steam keeps cooking the food for hours. By 1 PM, my penne pasta turns into soggy paste, and my rice loses all its texture.

I preheat my thermos with boiling water so the food stays hot, but I think sealing it immediately is trapping too much moisture. I even switched to a wider insulated stainless steel jar from Ecozoi hoping better heat distribution would help, but the steam accumulation still softens everything up.

How do you guys control internal moisture and steam while packing starch heavy hot lunches? Do you let the food cool slightly before sealing the lid?

No microwave at work so I’m stuck eating cold lunches. I’m tired of sad salads and protein bars. What do you pack that’s filling, actually has protein and still tastes okay a few hours later? Cheap is a bonus.

Thank you guys for so many suggestions. I am definitely not eating cold lunches now!!! :)

I made a huge pot of chili, used ground chicken since it's cheaper, used a lot of veggies I had on hand, and am going to use various carb sources depending on what mood im in that day. I will be eating off of this all week, and maybe spent $10 to make it!

Hi all wondering if it's just me who always looks for variety in meals. It's kind boring to repeat recipes

1- How many times a week do you use takeaway or ready to go meals?

2- How much do you currently spend on lunches and dinners? (How many people)

3- What you hate the most: planning, shopping, cooking or cleaning?

4- Do you pay or use any meal delivery solution? If so, what do you like and which ones do you recommend. If not, what didn't work?

5 - how much are you currently spending on groceries?