I have been sharing tips about clean eating over the past few months with you. Giving your food an overhaul seems like is hard but honestly, it all comes down to planning.
Today, I want to share some quick and easy ways to meal prep so your food is always ready when you want it. Cooking goes much faster, and you will be less inclined to cheat! Hurray to that!
Check out these meal prepping tips to help you save time and stay on track!
Meal Prepping for Cleaning Eating
- Keep a running shopping list in your store app or on your fridge and plan to shop 2-3 times a week so you have the freshest produce.
- When you bring home your food from your shopping trip, that is the perfect time to prepare it.
- Chop veggies and put them into containers so they are ready to grab when need them.
- Marinate your chicken breasts in individual zip bags a few days before you are going to cook them.
- Divide meat into the size of portions you need for each meal. Label everything well.
- Consider making items ahead, like whole wheat pie crusts for fixing a quick quiche at the last minute or have clean eating pizza dough made ahead of time for a fast pizza.
- Make your own junk food. Really, you can have potato chips, if you make your own using clean ingredients.
- Cook wild and brown rice up in a big pot and divide it into individual servings in bags and freeze them. That way you have a microwavable rice bag ready to go.
- Prep on the weekend for seamless weeknight meals. Precook proteins and grains, like quinoa, for quick additions to salads. Make a large container of salad dressing to be used all week.
- Make freezer meals ahead of time. Take one weekend and make up a week’s or a month’s worth of meals you can freeze. Then simply take it out the night before, thaw it in the refrigerator, and heat it up the next day.
- Another option is to create crock pot meals. Assemble as many of the ingredients as possible and freeze them in bags. Add to the crockpot for a wonderfully easy dinner ready when you get home.
- Search out recipes and tips online for ideas to use all those healthy ingredients.
Fitting a clean eating habit into a busy lifestyle doesn’t mean you have to make drastic changes in your life. It simply means taking a little extra time once a week or so to prepare your foods so they are ready when you need them.
Hope these meal prepping for clean eating tips help you! Let me know how you are doing!
Hi! I’m Chris! Just a Midlife Wife sharing about life’s journey; screaming and kicking through it while supposedly aging gracefully…
Focusing on healthy living, low carb & keto, things I am loving right now, and life in general.