Meal prep: 'Say what?'

Prepare healthy meals for the whole week! 

Sticking to a strict eating scheme makes it soo much easier when you always have a ready-made meal you can grap out of the fridge when it is time to eat!  It helps me in order not to grap easy, processed food, but instead a healthy meal, I already prepared. I eat about 6 times a day, small potions of clean food. Imagine I would need to stand in the kitchen 6 times a day to prepare all these meals! No way! To solution: Meal prep! 

This week I made nice dishes with chicken and veggies.
Stay tuned for the healthy recipes!

Meal prep stands for meal preparation. I basically means that you prepare all your meals you eat for a certain number of days. I usually do my meal prep on sunday evenings or monday mornings. Than I prepare my meals for the whole workweek, to 5 days. At one day, I eat 'diner-food' twice. Once around lunch time and once 2 hours before I hit the gym. The other meals consist of oatmeal, fruit, quark, protein shakes, eggs, smoked chicken, and quick veggies (baby tomatoes and- cucumbers). These latter meals I usually prepare in the morning and just wrap them up in order to take with me that day. This means I will have to prepare 2 'diner-like' meals for 5 days, = 10 meals in total.

When doing meal prep, I usually don't make 10 different dishes. I prefer to make 2-3 different types of dishes. This week I prepared Chicken from the oven, sautéed with spicy herbs, and mixed veggies including eggplant, bell pepper, and onions dressed with asparagus. The second dish I made is Chicken from the oven with mustard herbs and pepper, green beans and broccoli. I also made a chicken salad, with chicken, bell pepper, cucumber, and spring onions. I added brown rice for 3 dishes. Thus, mainly chicken this week! I will post these simple, clean recipes during this week!

This is my fridge, before meal prep and after meal prep.
It is stuffed with healthy, ready-to-go meals!

After preparing you let the disches cool down and put them in small containers. You can keep them 3-4 days in the fridge. If you want to store them for a longer period, you can also put them in the freezer. Then you take them out of the freezer the night before eating them, and store them in the fridge. Some people do not like to eat food 'from yesterday' out of the fridge. I don't mind it; for some meals it even taste better, because the herbs got into your dish better and it is more tasty! Also it has the big advantage that I do not have to cook every day. Don't get me wrong, I like cooking, but only when I have the time for it and can make nice culinary dishes. So, meal prep, the ideal solution to eat healthy!

Enjoy!