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How are you able to cook while working full time through the week? Do you have some kind of strategy? How do you plan your food? (self.food)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Templa to c/food

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We want to break out of this cycle of ordering delivery but at the same time, cooking everyday has been a challenge. We also have been trying to develop some sort of routine where we meal prep on the weekends but we live in an apartment with a really small kitchen so cooking and storing food for 5 days doesn't seem doable. Maybe cook for 3 days and then prepare the ingredients to cook again on Wednesday?

I'd appreciate if you could share your strategies and experience. The goal here is to eat healthy and good food.

Edit: Thank you everyone for all your contributions! I am a little overwhelmed by the number of replies so I if I do not reply to you please do now feel bad!!

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[–] lagomorphlecture 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I meal prep on Sunday but I'm also ok with eating the same thing 4 or 5 days in a row. If you aren't ok with that then meal prepping is going to be a lot more work. I also strongly suggest making extra and freezing some in individual portions so if you do run out of food, or just really aren't digging what you made, you can grab something out of the freezer.

And let's not underestimate the power of making your own frozen junk food. Like frozen burritos? Make a pile of burritos (which is great because you can put exactly what you like and make them healthier) then wrap them individually in tin foil and freeze. Make a frozen pizza in a square casserole dish and freeze pieces. Lasagna also freezes really well. It's a lot of work up front but it will keep for months so you have something easy to grab when you want it.

You can also precut things like vegetables if you will want to eat veggies later in the week, or if you'll want to cook something fresh later but know you won't do it if you have to spend a lot of time on it.

Edit: I forgot to say since it seems like storage space is an issue that you should make sure you have the most space efficient storage containers. A big circular container might not be as good as a rectangular one of the same volume that you could stack multiples on top of each other.