Meal Plan and Prep For Busy People – part four

Here are some different meal ideas that work perfectly with meal planning and meal prepping.

Put together different overnight oatmeal jars.

• To get some healthy breakfasts prepared, add overnight oats to multiple jars, one for each day of the week.
• In addition to the oats, you can add different toppings for each day.
• Some toppings to consider include cinnamon, sugar, slivered almonds or other nuts, dried fruit, berries or fresh fruit, raisins, and granola.

Roast your vegetables beforehand.

• To get vegetables ready for lunches and dinners throughout the week, spend one day roasting all the vegetables at one time.
• Choose vegetables with about the same cooking time, roast them together, then place in containers and freeze them.

Use a vegetable spiralizer instead of pasta.

• To make healthy, low-carb meals and meal prep at the same time, consider using a vegetable spiralizer.
• This takes vegetables like zucchini and squash and creates pasta out of them.
• Spiralize your veggies on a Sunday, then save them for the week’s ‘pasta’ meals.

Bake all of your meat, then freeze portions for each meal.

• Decide what meat you want to use for multiple meals, then bake or cook it all at the same time.
• Do this in the oven or your slow cooker.
• Meat like chicken breasts, fish fillets, and strips of steak work great for this.

Keep salad veggies and toppings in one container.

• For your salads, you can make it faster to put them together by having all of the greens and vegetables together in containers.
• Keep all your greens in one big container, and all the chopped veggies, cheese, and other toppings in another container.

With these tips, you will be on your way to both meal planning and prepping.

This is going to save you a lot of time, not to mention help you make healthier meals for your family.