Once again the holiday season is upon us! Every year it’s the same. The office parties, the family gatherings and fun nights out with old friends back in town. You can’t leave the house without seeing festive decorations, end-of-the-year sales and constant reminders that now is the time to eat all the holiday treats. With…
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Family Meal Prep And Planning Tips From Parents Who Do It Every Week
I’m not a mom… yet. So when people ask me about meal planning and meal prep tips for families, I struggle! Learning how to meal prep for just one person is hard enough. I can’t imagine what it’s like to have to cook for yourself, picky kids and possibly a partner that doesn’t have the…
The Master List Of Protein, Veggies And Carbs For Meal Prep
Three words: protein, veggies and carbs. That’s the format I’ve used since day one of my meal prep journey. It’s never let me down. What do I mean by format? Instead of counting calories or macros, and instead of weighing food, I use a template to build balanced meals. It’s so much simpler than counting…
4 Free Tools To Make You Feel Organized When Meal Planning
It would be impossible to get organized with meal planning and meal prep without a little help from technology. Before I found the method for meal planning that I swear by now, I used to use good ol’ pen and paper. That definitely worked for a while. But as I got more serious about making…
Everything You Need To Know About Meal Prep Containers
This is probably obvious, but if you want meal prep to be easy, you need meal prep containers first. I grew up in one of those houses where we always had a cabinet packed with plastic and glass containers with lids everywhere. It was the kind of thing where if you opened up the cabinet…
How To Make Groceries Last And Avoid Over Shopping
There’s nothing worse than opening your fridge on a Sunday before getting groceries and finding that it’s completely full of food you bought last week. Why is it so hard to eat up all the food we buy? Don’t think for a second that this doesn’t happen to me because I’ve been meal prepping for…
Beat Food Boredom Forever With 3 Easy Ways To Switch Up Your Cooking
Food is a lot like music. Hearing the same songs over and over and over again gets boring to a point where it almost hurts your brain. Have you ever had the distinct pleasure of listening to a Top 40 radio station for more than two hours? It mind-numbingly repetitive. After hearing Justin Bieber’s “Love…