A Basic Guide To Sunday Meal Prep
When it comes to healthy eating, preparation is the key to success. This way you tend to not waste food, and plan ahead. If I don’t meal prep part of my week, I get lazy and waste food or make bad choices for snacks and dinners. You know when you don’t have anything easy to make and you end up filling up on chips or cheese or bread? Yup I do.
This simple meal prep just takes about an hour or so of my Sunday (or Monday night).
I’m sure you’ve all seen this trend on Instagram or maybe you also follow Tracy at Shutterbean.
Start off by cooking anything on the stove top all at once. Set the oven to roast your veggies or bake bread and desserts. I like to get this all going so I can use my counter space to wash and prep veggies and fruit. I would also suggest investing in a Tupperware set so keep organized. It’s nice when you can stack the containers in your fridge neatly.
Chopped veggies and fruit are key, they are easy to grab snacks and if prepped you tend to choose them instead of chips. Consider planning your menu for the week before shopping and prepping. That way you won’t waste anything you’ve made and keep on track budget wise.
Share your meal prep with me using the hashtag #alwcmealprep! If you want to make a change to your routine this year, I suggest going with this one!
Meal Prep Ideas
Cook
- Boil Eggs
- Rice
- Quinoa and other grains
- Make marinara sauce
- Pasta noodles
- Soup or/and chili
- Oatmeal
- Proteins: meat, egg cups
Bake
- Dessert
- Blueberry Coconut Flour Muffins
- Veg or Sweet Potato Chips
- Bread
- My Dirty Chai Muffins
- One Hour Cinnamon Buns
Roast
- Vegetables
- Chicken
- Seeds
Prep
- Wash and chop veggies
- Wash and slice up fruit
- Rinse black beans
- Dressings and marinades
- Nuts and Dried Fruit
- Peanut butter protein balls
- Wash greens
- Dips or Hummus
These are some great ideas! I always have more success when I prepare on the weekend. 🙂
I am such a big fan of Meal Prepping! I would love for you to share some of your post over at Healthy Living Link Party, it goes live Wednesdays, 5pm PST until Sundays 7pm PST. Hope to see you there 🙂
thanks! will try to check it out this week 🙂
HI Leslie. Great ideas and photos. I make double recipes of things like beef stew or pasta sauce so I can freeze one. Same amount of effort to make one or two quantities. I do the same for pasta sauce or soup.
thanks susan! oh good idea, i usually do that with pasta sauce but forgot about beef stew. making a note for this weekend, curtis loves it.
Your photos are gorgeous. <3
erica @ thebigredpatchhouse.com
thanks erica!
So nice and organized! I’ve loved this idea for a while, but everything I’ve seen seems so overwhelming. Your take on it seems very manageable!
thanks kristen! once you start, it gets easier
I’ve never meal prepped before because it always seemed like such a chore. But your blog and these links you shared really make it seem simple (and dare I say it… Fun) Also, I really need to try out that dirty chai asap!
thanks jasmine! they won’t last!
This is a great list and I like how you broke it down by what area of the kitchen to be in first/last etc. I actually would love to chat with you more about meal prep and maybe we could do a series? I get asked all the time about meal prep!
thanks becki! i’m interested, send me an email with your ideas!
I just did a post on this last week! I loved how you suggested starting on the stovetop, and gave some examples of recipes that work. Pinning!
thanks angie i’ll check yours out!
Getting everything prepped ahead of time makes meals so much less stressful!
Thanks for sharing your ideas for prepping! Sounds like some great meals.
I’ve been trying to do weekly meal preps and haven’t quite gotten the hang of it yet..you make it look so easy!
start off small, just do a handful of things and then it gets easier
I try to always do my meal prep on Sundays as well. Yesterday didn’t go as planned so I had to do the grocery shopping and meal prep today. I much prefer to do it on Sunday! Great tips!
me too, sometimes you don’t have the same energy on a monday.
Great tips. I need to meal plan and prep better. It’s nice to have an idea of where to start.
thanks angela! once you do it a couple of times, it gets easier to plan.
How does your food lookso good?!?! lol I love boiling eggs for the week…they make a great addition to salads or a great healthy snack…I;’m strange and don’t like hte yellow part of eggs any way but scrambled so I just eat the whites…but I do think I’m going to boil some eggs tonight to have on hand.
me too! nice little bit of protein to have on hand.
I am not very good at meal prep. I plan my meal ahead of time but just don’t think about prepping ahead of time.
start off small, wash your fruits and veggies and maybe cut them up. that’s always a handy bit to do.
I need to invest in a lot more tupperware for this. I love the idea of on the go fruits and veges. Need to be better about that.
nah check out homesense or other discount stores and get them for a better price!
I always meal prep on Sundays too 🙂 Love your ideas for prepping!
thanks emily!