It's 2 to 5 day old food, reheated in the microwave in a plastic chemical leeching container, and the final result often is completely ruined texture and flavor. Reheated meats warmed in the microwave always taste funky. The only viable options are things like stews, soups, lasagna, saucy pasta dishes, etc. I'd probably want to leap off a tall building if I had to eat dry re-warmed chicken breast with unseasoned broccoli and rice like half of these idiots make.
Canning however is awesome, but the initial cost and prep time makes it far less common. Doesn't require refrigeration and doesn't tend to taste weird when reheated. Think I'll crack open a jar of vegetable beef soup, or maybe a jar of bbq pulled pork and eat it with some crackers.
Forget canning, just freeze the ingredients for a meal and dump them into the instant pot when it's time to cook. Fricker will cook meat from raw frozen to done like it was nothing.
Yeah, that's always a good idea, but you can't throw 5 jars of canned meals in your car and have work lunches and backup snacks for a week. Also good for power outages and natural disasters. Plus you don't have to cook, you could just heat it up or eat it room temp. Hell, throw one on the dash of your car and come out and get it at lunch time and it's nice and warm.
Damn, I've really sold myself on this whole canning thing. I need to buy a pressure cooker and some bell jars.
>It's 2 to 5 day old food,
yeah >reheated in the microwave
maybe >in a plastic chemical leeching container,
i use glass > and the final result often is completely ruined texture and flavor
as you go one to say - it depends on the dish
>The only viable options are things like stews, soups, lasagna, saucy pasta dishes >saucy pasta dishes
noodles literally turn into poison after 3 days at the latest... or you only save the sauce for days and cook noodles everyday which kinda defeats the purpose of meal prep
Wrong; meal prep carbs, roots, beans, soups and stew meat; cook greens, fish and steak to order
No it's the stupidest shit.
How does doing all your cooking in one session make you more efficient? That's dumb, it sounds like it's for people with zero time management skills the way cold turkey is for people with zero self-control.
How does doing all your cooking in one session make you more efficient? That's dumb, it sounds like it's for people with zero time management skills the way cold turkey is for people with zero self-control.
because you only have doing dishes 1 time instead of every time you cook a meal, moron
if you don't know it's easier to cook in bulk then you're hopeless and i hope you aren't engineering bridges or architecture because i'm sure you'd frick that up mathematically too
Do you do all your teeth brushing for the week in one day?
Do you consume all your calories for the week in one day?
Do you drink all your water for the week in one day?
Do you take one massive shit every Sunday so you don't have to shit the rest of the week?
Do you jerk off 7 times every Sunday so you don't have to do it for the rest of the week?
Do (You) take all your HRT pills for the week in one day?
This is all to save time and if you answered no to any of the above then you're unnecessarily repeating processes
Wow, this is some of the dumbest shit I think I've ever seen on this garbage site.
Precisely none of those are unnecessary and you fricking know it; now stop trying to flex because you spend more time washing dishes than someone else.
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Jesus christ it takes a minute or two to load a dishwasher after each meal. If you have good detergent the dirty plates can sit there for days. Who the frick meal preps to save time on washing dishes? It's about portion control for fat fricks.
if you live alone, this isn't a practical solution
so if you're cooking every day, like you suggest >run the dishwasher every day just so you can reuse cookware
or >wash up everything by hand so you can use it, bringing us back to where we started
not to mention the litany of things you can't put in the dishwasher - non-stick cookware, rice cooker insert, etc
People, people, what if neither position is wrong?
Some prefer a freshly cooked meal and spend their time on that
Some prefer to save time on meals and spend it on other things
Neither are wrong
this is a fair point
i do enjoy cooking, when i actually have the time.
i just can't believe the neets screeching about how anyone who make any sort of concessions in their life to make it slightly easier is a fricking moron
Do you find doing dishes that hard you lazy piece of shit?
Jesus christ it takes a minute or two to load a dishwasher after each meal. If you have good detergent the dirty plates can sit there for days. Who the frick meal preps to save time on washing dishes? It's about portion control for fat fricks.
From what I can tell, meal prep is more about portion control and dieting than it is about time management. Anyone can whip up a quick meal or order takeout. Meal prep allows you to make portioned meals at your desired calorie level. If you're trying to lose weight, it's harder to overeat when you have food preportioned
Is this bait? So you're telling me to my face that cooking all my work lunches on Sunday when I'm at my house all day with free tune, so I just have to take it out of the fridge in the following mornings, is just as efficient as cooking say, a meatloaf, mashed potatoes, and gravy? When I get up at 5:30am for work? Really?
How much Colt 45s did your mom pound while you were a fetus to make you this much of a massive fricking fetal alcohol syndrome moron?
imagine unironically being so fricking stupid and useless that you "cant cook" because you "have a job". normal well adjusted people can manage both just fine without autistically making a bunch of chicken and rice in advance.
I've never understood why they prep the whole meal, and not the individual ingredients to make the cooking process quicker. Can anyone explain why?
It takes about the same time to cook a meal for 1 as it does a meal for 5. If it's a food that is just fine as leftovers then it makes no sense to cook it 5 times.
And some foods make more sense to cook a lot more at once. Who the frick makes only enough soup for one person? Why not go ahead and portion it into sealable bowls so you can just pull them out and reheat later?
I can't cook a full lunch in the middle of a work day. That's the purpose of meal prepping, having take to work lunches so you're not eating McD every day.
if you make it healthy it is. healthy is boring, meal prep is boring. those pictures of that shit you see online is just typical bullshit. no sane person is prepping 7 servings of paella and it absolutely will not look like on day 7 what it looked like before day 1... unless you're a co-dependent day-trading mom of a private school white kid.
Well, me too, I'm not trying to eat left overs for dinner, but lunch is the most commonly meal prepped meal, you big tard. Most meal preppers do it to avoid the temptation to order out or go to a fast food joint when they're too lazy to cook. Get it now ya dumb smug bastard?
I'm pretty sure he means like cooking steak, then potatoes, then another side, and then keeping them seperate. That way you can mix and match between different dinners, like if you'd made pasta some other day you could warm up the steak, cut it up and eat it with pasta or something
You can individually cook ingredients but that leads to more dishes having the same ingredients. I like to prep a variety of cuisines, one simple meat and three, Mexican, Italian, Asian, Indian, etc. Batch roasting some peppers and onions would be fine but the more variety you have typically means more ingredients and different preparation methods.
basically every meal you cook is gunna have portions leftover anyway
just double the volume of everything you put in
wa la
you've """""meal prepped"""""
bone apple teeth
I spend about $20 and 2 hours every Sunday and make dinners for most of the week, worth it for me. The main benefit for me is only having to think up one meal instead of planning something different every day.
If you live alone and work full time and don't have your mom cooking for you: yes, very much.
You spend a couple hours at most cooking two meals each portioned for 5-7 people, and that gets you enough full meals to last nearly two weeks. You want to do two meals at once so you can alternate throughout that time instead of eating the same thing every day.
This means you come home from work and if you're too tired to cook you don't have to.
If you don't feel like cooking after working all day it's perfect. But eating the same thing everyday sucks, so I recommend leaving meals unseasoned so you can change the taste each day.
i work at home but even im considering meal prepping now because having to stop to make food instead of just grabbing it and eating it ends up causing me to get distracted and wasting too much time
You can tell their logic they don't live alone, probably have a parent still cooking them meals, come here because they cook in their spare time and are so proud of themselves for not just microwaving shit.
But the reality is that if you're an adult, living on your own or maybe just with one person, you work at least 30 hours a week, then cooking something good twice a day 7 days a week is not something you can afford the time and energy to.
Cooking for 5 takes just as long as cooking the same dish for 1. So cook two dishes for 5, portion it off, alternate the two meals each day, and cook something fresher only when you feel up to it or have time. Or take these prepped meals to work so you're not buying fast food on your lunch break.
Additionally, prepping ingredients. You're not going to use a whole onion in one sitting. Cut enough for a larger meal, store what you don't use, and you can make the same stir fry quickly multiple times that week.
This is basic shit but this thread is full of idiots who think that because something is trendy that means it's bad and you're weak for doing it. But people did this before it was trendy and will do it after. It's just what you do.
>the argument is about time constraints >anon says to wake up an hour earlier so you have time to cook and eat a large meal >every day
you're moronic.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Yeah eat a big breakfaat and skip lunch or even dinner. Embrace OMAD and have good food everyday instead of week old rice and chicken breast lmfao. You need to rid youraelf of your poverty lifestyle that is holding you back
2 years ago
Anonymous
>3000 calorie clean omad
How?
2 years ago
Anonymous
Nuts and fruit will be doing a lot of the work. Add some honey on w/e. Some coconut oil in your coffee.
If I wake up at 6:30 I have time for cereal or something premade. I also have a manual labour job and burn 3 or 4 thousand calories in an average work day.
I can't skip meals because I'm not going to bite eat goyslop at night to get enough calories back.
I'm not getting up even earlier so I can cook when I can make breakfast while I'm making dinner.
>burn 3 or 4 thousand calories in an average work day
there is no fricking way you burn 4 thousand calories at work, unless you're a rigger that is deadlifting crane loads.
but yeah, if you work, meal-prepping is pretty much a necessity, only neets would argue otherwise.
that said, i got lucky; my new workplace provides subsidizes meals that are cheaper than i could cook myself
3-4k daily is what my Fitbit tells me. Doesn't seem that far off since I normally burn around 2.3k just in a day of not doing much. An extra 1600 is 200 extra calories per hour of work which isn't that many.
I live on my own and work 40 hours a week most days; I just make dinner for two or more (cooking for one is nigh impossible for some dishes) for dinner and then save that for the following day's lunch. I don't think that quite counts as "food prep", to me it's just leftovers.
>stupid internet trends
It's not a trend morons on here just think it is because a few hipsters mentioned it somewhere. It's a normal sensible thing people just do as a practical time saver.
>cook a pot of food >put it in the fridge >eat the leftovers all week
Why do you have to make it so homosexual and call it "meal prepping" and form reddit communities about it and buy little Japanese bento boxes and take pictures of it for your Instagram?
2 years ago
Anonymous
It has always been called meal prepping. Leftovers are food you made that happen to have left over portions worth saving for later.
Prepping means preparing ingredients to use in cooking later (like chopping vegetables). Meal prep is preparing a whole finished meals to be eaten later but cooking in bulk. It's just what the fricking words mean. It's not some new hipster invention.
I knew a guy in college (11 years ago) who did meal prep and called it that. He was from a farm in the middle of nowhere missouri. Just because you only recently learned the term doesn't mean it's a trendy hipster thing.
If anything it's closer to just a poverty thing and people are poorer these days.
2 years ago
Anonymous
you're delusional
you need to go back
2 years ago
Anonymous
You're moronic and that's not my problem. People will keep preparing meals for themselves in advance no matter how much you b***h.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I can smell your beard from here, please stop
2 years ago
Anonymous
Yeah eat a big breakfaat and skip lunch or even dinner. Embrace OMAD and have good food everyday instead of week old rice and chicken breast lmfao. You need to rid youraelf of your poverty lifestyle that is holding you back
>just eat breakfast bro >no I'm not a dumb kid who lives with his mom >I totally know how to cook for myself
you spend your time making fast food memes on this board.
And it shows.
2 years ago
Anonymous
huh?
2 years ago
Anonymous
Live without mom's cooking for a year and see how you feel.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I haven't seen or spoken to my mother in sixteen years
2 years ago
Anonymous
No surprise that people have mommy issues.
2 years ago
Anonymous
You aren't forced by law to eat only breakfast foods for the breakfast meal you stupid poverty Black person lmfao. Dry brine your meat overnight, throw it and w/e in the oven or pressure cooker. Take a shower then sear and finish with the rest. Some easy lifehavks from me to you
>This is basic shit but this thread is full of idiots who think that because something is trendy that means it's bad and you're weak for doing it
Welcome to post-GG PrepHole
Rank2traffic turned out to be a scam site that paywalled fake data and stole people's credit card information. I get a giggle out of every time someone posts that chart because you just know some buttblasted homosexual had to cancel his credit card for the sake of a bullshit fake chart.
>You're not going to use a whole onion in one sitting.
Frick you, yes I am. If the fricking recipe calls for any fraction of an onion instead of a whole onion it's a SHIT recipe. Same for eggs.
Cooking for one is much faster than cook for 5 >throw chicken in the air fryer >throw potatoes in the air fryer >steam some broccoli >wash 5 to 10 utensils at most >all together half an hour of the day taken up
Chopping board fir chicken
Chopping board for veg
Chopping knife for chicken
Chopping knife for veg
Potato peeler
Grater (for garlic)
Plate
Fork
Eating knife
Cup for drink of water with meal
>can’t appreciate the simple foods (ngmi) >expects me to believe that he works a 9-5, lives alone, comes home to make an immaculate meal every evening, and still has time for all his other errands and 8-16 hours of sleep each night (clearly lying)
I was going to say that it takes so little time to peel and slice an onion that this must be bait, but then I remembered that some people really can't figure out that part of cooking, so it actually is a big time sink for them and those are the people who usually find "meal prepping" to be a genius idea and don't understand when others scoff at it
I have personally found that anything past 3 days old usually tastes like garbage personally. What I will usually do is make a big meal and portion it in a way where I don't have to throw anything out past 3 days and just pair it with sides (veggies, salad, etc).
Depends on how you go about it. Cooking 3-5 meals worth of food is essential to eating homecooked instead of goyslop when working full time and hitting the gym 3 nights a week. Cooking 10 meals worth of brown rice, plain green beans, and chicken breast on Sunday is setting yourself up for food waste and unplanned cheat meals. Cooking for one is difficult anyway, so you may as well overshoot and get some brownbag lunches and a heat and eat dinner in your fridge.
>live in weimerican capitalist dystopia >work 16 hour shifts, cannot afford a car and the risk of being murdered on the subway isn't covered by your health insurance so take the uber which costs more than you make in a day, going further in debt day after day >live in a 16 bed dorm with no windows nor kitchen, so survive on batch cooking rice and beans every 6 months and storing your increasingly putrid and botulism ridden "food" under your bed >use your leased iphone 4 to arrange your fermented and exploding salvaged takeout trays to post on instagram, making sure the chinese spyware installed on your phone track your location, mood, social credit, and blood prozac level >receive 3 likes >fall into a diabetic coma to the sound of gunshots and insurrections
I don't understand Meal Prepping IF you're not going out on a trip, work a job away from home, want to feed your kids actual food instead of cafeteria slop, and stuff like that
Surely, everyone has time in their day to cook up a half-way decent meal right?
Not everyone no, especially with really tiring jobs some people just don't have the energy at the end of every day, so why no prepare for that so you're not falling back on other quick food options that are less healthy? Also for lunches. Most people are doing these so they have something to take to work that's relatively fresh and healthier than other options available at work.
But when people post what you're saying I'm skeptical, have you ever had a full time job?
It's not so much the energy to cook as it is the energy to go to the god damn grocery store every single day or even every other day. I can't be assed to go to the grocery store more than once a week.
I do meal prep for post workout meals but that's it. I'm just going to eat the same thing every time anyway so there's not much point in not prepping in advance. Other meals I don't prep for the sake of variety.
>spend an entire day making 7 different meals for the week
so you might as well just make them each night and have it fresh you stupid fricking idiot moron
ok so what are you saying? you are spending a day making 3 types of one meal and 4 of another? or 2 types of one meal and 2 types of another and 3 types of a another? or more? 14 meals? 5 of one, 3 of one, 2 of one, and 4 of another?
any way you swing it its a fricking moronic shitty idea that takes way too much time (literally more than if you just made the meals on the fly) and ends up giving you lower quality shitty food.
Please explain why making 7-14 meals of 2-4 types in one day takes longer than cooking them from scratch each time
2 years ago
Anonymous
ok say it takes you three hours on sunday to meal prep for the rest of the week. the alternative is cooking every night.
3 hours = 180 minutes
180 minutes / 7 days = 25 minutes a night
so unless you are spending more than 25 minutes to cook your dinner (you shouldnt be), it takes the exact same amount of time to "meal prep", except the meal prep takes three hours out of your day off. even if you are taking 35 or 40 minutes to cook each night, its WORTH IT because an extra 15 or 20 minutes cooking on a tuesday night is more acceptable to normal people than taking a THREE (or more) hour chunk of their fricking weekend. you absolute fricking moronic dipshit, you fell for a reddit meme.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>an extra 15 or 20 minutes cooking on a tuesday night is more acceptable to normal people than taking a THREE (or more) hour chunk of their fricking weekend
especially when that chunk results in really low quality meals later in the week. so congratulations, youve wasted an afternoon of your weekend to (maybe) save a few minutes cooking each week night (when you probably wouldnt be doing anything else anyway), but the food is worse.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>a few minutes
Let's say you want to eat Bolognese this week
You could cook a large batch once, spending 30 minutes of prep and then letting it simmer for three hours. You then clean the pot once.
Or you could do this 7 times, given each cook takes about the same time whether it's 1 serving or 7.
2 years ago
Anonymous
terrible analogy since nobody makes single portions of bolognese just like they dont make single portions of lasagne or chili. have a nice day.
how about using the typical "meal prep" foods like chicken and rice and vegetables? you wont because it makes meal prep seem like a complete and utter stupid meme that YOU FELL FOR
2 years ago
Anonymous
So we agree that meal prep makes sense for a range of dishes
2 years ago
Anonymous
excuse me but making a pot of chili or bolognese that you can have leftovers for a couple of days or otherwise freeze is not "meal prep" since this is the way it is prepared by definition: in a huge pot.
meal prep is making your gay little meals and portioning them out into gay little tupperwares and then reheating on friday the shitty soggy green beans you cooked on sunday, choking it down and saying to yourself "MMM SOOO GOOD BOY AM I GLAD I SAVED THAT 20 EXTRA MINUTES OF TIME"
have a nice day you dishonest TWAT
2 years ago
Anonymous
If preparing meals of chilli ahead of schedule for the week isn't meal prep, what is it? Your issue seems to be with specific meals
2 years ago
Anonymous
>pedantic moron splitting hairs for the sake of le ebin meme argument on PrepHole
seriously, have a nice day.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Is your "meal prep" chilli every single week? No? Do you only rotate through meals like chilli, spaghetti, soup, etc? No? Then shut the frick up.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Can cook quite a range of things in bulk, so yes it's easily possible to imagine a varied rotation
2 years ago
Anonymous
Assuming cooking in bulk saves time (which it indisputably does), what's stopping you from doing this meal prep on a weeknight instead of a weekend?
2 years ago
Anonymous
>what's stopping you from doing this meal prep on a weeknight
nothing in practice but most people would rather spend 30 minutes cooking each night than spend 3 hours cooking one night after a full day at work just so they can have really shitty reheated meals for the rest of the week. admit you are a fat stupid moron who cant actually cook and fell for a reddit meme.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Alternatively lets say it's monday and you are about to do 35 minutes of cooking for one meal, you could instead do 40 minutes of cooking and produce three times the amount for three meals.
Time saving is obvious.
It can be if you're disciplined enough; however I prefer just having a fridge full of prepped ingredients to quickly throw together single portions instead.
Tried once and never went back. It's awful. None of the dishes I like can be prepared like that and be as good 3 or 5 days later. Grandma would turn in her grave and come cook as a zombi if she knew her grandson was eating like shit. No, I have a culinary heritage to honor, I am not british damn it.
t. peruvian
what's the difference between meal prep and eating leftovers? I cook on the weekend and eat whatever I made for the rest of the week so I don't have to cook when I get home from work. I don't use a microwave to reheat it though and make fresh rice or pasta to go with it.
All the moronic posts in here trying to spin meal prep as something bad are just homosexuals who never lived alone, still have their mom cooking for them, and never worked a full time job in their life. >Oh just cook in the morning! >Oh you have time every single day to buy and cook fresh food for both lunch and dinner! >a job, lunch breaks? What's that?
This site has too many underaged kids on it.
Is this bait? So you're telling me to my face that cooking all my work lunches on Sunday when I'm at my house all day with free tune, so I just have to take it out of the fridge in the following mornings, is just as efficient as cooking say, a meatloaf, mashed potatoes, and gravy? When I get up at 5:30am for work? Really?
How much Colt 45s did your mom pound while you were a fetus to make you this much of a massive fricking fetal alcohol syndrome moron?
>everyone who disagrees with me is a samegay
or you're just moronic and don't know what the frick you're talking about because your mom still cooks most of your meals. She lets you feel independent when you make noodles for yourself but then invites you upstairs for dinner to get the actual nutrition you're lacking.
You mean your workplace doesn't have a cafeteria, or at least a decent restaurant nearby? You mean you can't afford to go there most days? You mean you can't throw together a simple and tasty meal in 20 minutes?
Let's be honest, the only reason you're so obsessed with meal prep is because you're a total loser with no life skills.
imagine unironically being so fricking stupid and useless that you "cant cook" because you "have a job". normal well adjusted people can manage both just fine without autistically making a bunch of chicken and rice in advance.
>normal well adjusted people
i would like to meet these people, honestly
at the warehouse i worked at, breakdown was roughly >PrepHole-types reheating mymusclechef or similar premade meals >sad sacks reheating meal prep (myself included) >the idiots who wnet out and got fast food every day >the one tweaked-out looking dude who made instant noodles with the kettle, day in, day out
how many 4HLs actually take the time to cook every day? hell, how many grown-ass adults actually know how to cook for themselves?
kek you are a real fricking moron arent you. I live alone and cook every night. Both of my parents worked and my mom cooked every night. Youre just lazy and useless.
People, people, what if neither position is wrong?
Some prefer a freshly cooked meal and spend their time on that
Some prefer to save time on meals and spend it on other things
Neither are wrong
Fricking hate how reddit thinks preparing a large batch of food and eating it over multiple days is a hobby. I often prepare a large batch of food and eat it over 4-5 days, but I don't call it "meal prepping" or some gay shit like that.
People lost their religion, or never even had religion in the first place, so the only replacement they have is to form their identity around corporate brand loyalty and narcissistic virtue signalling. They congeal into myopic "communities" dedicated to some insignificant bullshit and then let it utterly dominate their life because nothing else gives them a feeling of purpose or meaning. They receive validation and approval from other narcissists, ever fueling their descent into the pseudo-cult.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a Christcuck either, but I recognize the historical importance religion had in the human mind and the terrifying replacements that we've made for it since the industrial revolution. I don't have a solution.
Does anyone here meal prep one day at a time? So you make a meal in the evening for tomorrow's brunch/lunch at work? Eating out is becoming a bit too pricey for me so I'm looking at alternatives. I guess some quick/easy made meals could work? What do you guys do? Or do you just eat out when at work? I don't really have any leftovers because I live in a big family and nothing is left over usually so I'd have to make a special meal just for work.
/ck/'s obsession with meal prep hate is fricking hilarious to me considering 90%+ posts on this board are fast food circlejerks. Not everyone wants to use 20-30 minutes of their limited free time cooking a meal after working 8-12 hours. Neets and college students who skip class wouldn't know this. Meal prepping is quicker, cheaper, healthier, and tastier than getting garbage ass fast food. It's quicker, cheaper, can be healthier, and can be tastier than mediocre take out. You've never actually tried any form of meal prepping if you think otherwise.
not to mention lunch. if i don't want to waste $15-$20 on lunch everyday, I've got to bring something in and I like having a big meal so i've got energy for the gym after work.
r/mealprep's obsession with meal prep love is fricking hilarious to me considering 90%+ posts on this subreddit are moronic overtime wagie losers and divorced incels. Not everyone wants to use 3-4 hours of their limited free time cooking 15 meals after working their comfy, high paying 9 to 5 when they could just use 20-30 minutes each night cooking a fresher, tastier meal instead, or visiting a high quality restaurant where they take women on dates. Meal prepping is more time consuming because high value individuals value their free time such that spending several hours at once preparing low quality meals is simply not acceptable; it's a waste of time, which is more valuable than yours. You've never actually been a high value individual if you think otherwise.
It's easier if you're cooking for just yourself since cooking everyday with store ingredients is expensive, especially if you're buying single person portions since they're usually more expensive for some reason.
I never got why people do it with pasta though, just put the sauce in a container and make some fresh pasta each time. Obviously that doesn't work for some things, but you can easily store a lot of them, and then you don't have to eat rubbery pasta for the next four days
Also it helps to have a big freezer, since I don't trust leftovers more than two days old. That way you also don't have to eat the same thing four days in a row
Most recipes online are also usually for four people so it saves having to bother converting everything
i think there's a lot of demoralization going on in this thread, going beyond clueless NEETs >what, are you too moronic to come up with different meals? >what, are you too lazy to cook every day? >what, are you too poor to buy lunch every day?
to every anon out there working a real job, being sensible about caloric intake and frugal with money, good for you, keep it up
Meal prepping is really gay, it only makes sense if you have to cook every meal like your life depends on it like some autist.
I cook lazily. I hate using too many pans/pots or utensils because I know it will have to be cleaned, I refuse to spend more than half an hour slaving away in the kitchen to make something, finishing things off in the oven is ideal. I eat shit loads of boiled eggs just because they're good, healthy snacks and help when you're waiting for something in the oven to finish
None of this is hard and can easily fit around a full time job. I really don't understand how people can't cook lazily and save themselves the headache of planning meals and preparing 7 of them in a day, what a shit way to spend your weekend. I also never bother eating lunch, I just eat a lot in the morning and feel fine until the evening
I tried meal prepping but my brothers kept stealing my meals. Plus I realised I was really bad at portion sizes and my last meal would always be short. Plus food goes off after 3 days. Easier to just shit out one quick meal a night and if ipI happen to be so busy I can’t cook I just scramble eggs and eat them with spinach or kale. It’s not a big deal.
It's weird to me that people think bringing prepared food in a container is in any way new or strange. I see people bringing up bento boxes like lunch boxes aren't already a thing here in the West. When I was a kid my mom packed me sandwiches with the innards in one bag and the bread in another and I kept it in an insulated lunch box and combined it all with a mustard packet from the cafeteria. As an adult I largely kept the same habit but I had to bring my own mustard and used reusable containers. I get home, I parcel out a serving of lunchmeat and put it in its container which goes in the fridge. Put the bread in its container. Put the ice pack in the freezer. Put it all in my lunch box in the morning before I go to work and I have lunch solved. I was doing this myself as early as 2010 and you gays want to tell me it's some new internet trend? Frick off.
We are talking about autistic morons making a huge batch of usually chicken/rice/steamed vegetables on Sunday and eating it throughout the week, every day, until next Sunday when they do it again.
The most autistic ones will do things like make 30 breakfast burritos and freeze them so you can have shitty soggy reheated rubbery egg wraps every morning all month.
>We are talking about autistic morons making a huge batch of usually chicken/rice/steamed vegetables on Sunday and eating it throughout the week, every day, until next Sunday when they do it again.
Why would you even care?
>OP asks if meal prepping is worth it >200 posts ensue, comprising several different conversations on the pros and cons of meal prepping
pretty standard stuff you big dumb gay.
There's plenty of on topic stuff but there's plenty that isn't which prompted my original post of >It's weird to me that people think bringing prepared food in a container is in any way new or strange.
>It's weird to me that people think bringing prepared food in a container is in any way new or strange.
nobody thinks that. you are creating an argument in your own mind so you can play wise sensible anon in your made up fantasy world.
It has always been called meal prepping. Leftovers are food you made that happen to have left over portions worth saving for later.
Prepping means preparing ingredients to use in cooking later (like chopping vegetables). Meal prep is preparing a whole finished meals to be eaten later but cooking in bulk. It's just what the fricking words mean. It's not some new hipster invention.
I knew a guy in college (11 years ago) who did meal prep and called it that. He was from a farm in the middle of nowhere missouri. Just because you only recently learned the term doesn't mean it's a trendy hipster thing.
If anything it's closer to just a poverty thing and people are poorer these days.
>It's pretty much mandatory if you work a job with long hours, like construction
why wouldn't your wife pack you a meal if you're too far away to go back home for a hot lunch?
Because the vast majority of construction workers on new ground up sites are single/divorced men who live alone and end up eating cold food because there's no temp power
Feels good to be a commercial high rise plumber who always has temp power before I even arrive. Literally have a mini fridge, microwave and coffee maker I keep in our lock-up and drag up months later when I'm done.
>save money >eat healthier
meal prepping at first can seem like a chore, but after you do the same recipies a few times you'll be cranking out a week's worth of food in something like 30 - 40 minutes.
"meal prepping" is counterproductive
just cook in bulk >fridge full of various freshly cooked food i only need to throw on the pan for a few minutes to heat up >come home to a choice of cooked meats to add to any dish >large containers of cooked veggies, rice, etc
i can choose what to combined and add sauces or extras to make unique dishes
>use glass containers with dividers >use chicken thighs instead of spongey shitty breasts >have a variety of sides and marinades/sauces
waaaahhhh it's too hard and isn't as tasty and fresh as a Big Mac®
No. Cooking daily has a spiritual value. Most people's days are dominated by unending tedium, working towards goals that won't be attained for years. Cooking at the end of the day is a creative outlet which allows you to see a project from beginning to end in a short time span. It gives you a daily dopamine hit that only completion of a job can provide.
>NOOOOO I CAN'T SPEND 20 MINUTES COOKING EACH DAY THIS IS TOO MUCH EFFORT I CANNOT FUNCTION LIKE THIS
I bet those are the same wagies that pretend medieval peasants had better lives but cooking each day is beyond them lmao
meal preppers are adults who never learned to cook growing up and don't have much interest in food
they're used to eating either fast food, some other kind of takeout, ready made frozen meals or lunches packed by their mothers (you can tell this when you look at the photos of their food, they are trying to replicate the look of either takeout, frozen dinners or mommy's lunches or from when they were a kid)
at some point they realized they need to cook homemade meals, either to save money or for health reasons or both
and because they never learned how to cook this takes them a very long time
and having little interest in food makes it worse, because it is a boring chore for them
it's so excruciating for them that they can only bear to cook one meal a week
so they cook their shitty meal and attempt to pack it up in a way that gives them the feeling of security and comfort
"it's ok, it's ok, you won't have to cook again for the rest of the week, look someone has made all these meals for you! it's ok"
zero
I'm sharing my observations of things which are very evident
the seething in this thread seems to be coming from those who are projecting their own fears and frustrations, the endless anxiety of the meal prepper
Your extremely narrow view on something you've never actually observed outside of getting on the internet. Things that are very evident eh? I don't give a shit about meal preppers but you're so full of yourself it's embarrassing considering how hypocritical your post is
I prep meat (meatballs esp)
not whole meals though. I make whatever on the day/weekend and add a few pre-cooked frozen meatballs in as the main or additional meat
I enjoy preparing food for far in the future. All you really need is hardtack and pemmican. Sometimes I don't feel like making pemmican, so I get a big block of aged cheddar (last forever with vinegar), make banana chips (couple weeks), and jerky. It takes about a full day of putting stuff in an oven and forgetting, and I end up with at least a week or 2's worth of food. Some day, I'd like to make an entire month worth of food in a 2 day window. Also, I make coffee by grinding the beans with mortar/pestle and boiling it in a pot; that's how I eat the hardtack, which is otherwise inedible. If anons learn to can, cure, ferment, and pickle, you could probably store over a year's worth of food with maybe a week's effort or less.
leftovers are eaten the next day, not 5 days later for a reason
I eat leftovers for at least 7 days, as long as it's sloppa or soup.
Depending on the food leftovers are good for 4-7 days.
some leftovers are good for literally months
If leftovers are appropriately stored e.g. canned, tinned, vacuum packed etc it can last for years.
It's 2 to 5 day old food, reheated in the microwave in a plastic chemical leeching container, and the final result often is completely ruined texture and flavor. Reheated meats warmed in the microwave always taste funky. The only viable options are things like stews, soups, lasagna, saucy pasta dishes, etc. I'd probably want to leap off a tall building if I had to eat dry re-warmed chicken breast with unseasoned broccoli and rice like half of these idiots make.
Canning however is awesome, but the initial cost and prep time makes it far less common. Doesn't require refrigeration and doesn't tend to taste weird when reheated. Think I'll crack open a jar of vegetable beef soup, or maybe a jar of bbq pulled pork and eat it with some crackers.
I wonder if you can do canning with an instant pot. They're pressure cookers, right?
Forget canning, just freeze the ingredients for a meal and dump them into the instant pot when it's time to cook. Fricker will cook meat from raw frozen to done like it was nothing.
Yeah, that's always a good idea, but you can't throw 5 jars of canned meals in your car and have work lunches and backup snacks for a week. Also good for power outages and natural disasters. Plus you don't have to cook, you could just heat it up or eat it room temp. Hell, throw one on the dash of your car and come out and get it at lunch time and it's nice and warm.
Damn, I've really sold myself on this whole canning thing. I need to buy a pressure cooker and some bell jars.
unfortunately you can't
instantpot doesn't guarantee it can maintain adequate pressure for safe canning
you need a proper pressure canner
you can do it in a regular pot. just have to do it 3 times to tindalize
>It's 2 to 5 day old food,
yeah
>reheated in the microwave
maybe
>in a plastic chemical leeching container,
i use glass
> and the final result often is completely ruined texture and flavor
as you go one to say - it depends on the dish
glass storage containers do exist
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Canning is alright but you have fun with your constant diarrhea.
I use plastic. I also take it out of the plastic and put it on a ceramic plate before reheating.
>vegetable beef soup, or maybe a jar of bbq pulled pork
But these things reheat well, and wok good for meal preps/leftovers.
>The only viable options are things like stews, soups, lasagna, saucy pasta dishes
>saucy pasta dishes
noodles literally turn into poison after 3 days at the latest... or you only save the sauce for days and cook noodles everyday which kinda defeats the purpose of meal prep
I think he means the sauce for the pasta, the actual pasta only takes 8 minutes to cook
>noodles literally turn into poison after 3 days at the latest
No they don't. You should freeze any meal preps that you don't plan on consuming within 3 days anyway.
lemme shill this channel thats pretty pog
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheMealPrepManual/videos
Saving time and money. But too boring to eat same stuff for long.
Just do OMAD imvhaho
meal prep sides and cook meat to order
Wrong; meal prep carbs, roots, beans, soups and stew meat; cook greens, fish and steak to order
Washing up dishes and utensils takes time, mong
Yeah my workplace doesn't have a stove. Neet
Imagine posting here when you're not even a chef
No it's the stupidest shit.
How does doing all your cooking in one session make you more efficient? That's dumb, it sounds like it's for people with zero time management skills the way cold turkey is for people with zero self-control.
because you only have doing dishes 1 time instead of every time you cook a meal, moron
if you don't know it's easier to cook in bulk then you're hopeless and i hope you aren't engineering bridges or architecture because i'm sure you'd frick that up mathematically too
Do you find doing dishes that hard you lazy piece of shit?
> i like to repeat processes unecessarily and if you dont youre a peace of shit
yeahhh frick ya mudda and her stromboli tony
Do you do all your teeth brushing for the week in one day?
Do you consume all your calories for the week in one day?
Do you drink all your water for the week in one day?
Do you take one massive shit every Sunday so you don't have to shit the rest of the week?
Do you jerk off 7 times every Sunday so you don't have to do it for the rest of the week?
Do (You) take all your HRT pills for the week in one day?
This is all to save time and if you answered no to any of the above then you're unnecessarily repeating processes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes, double it
No
Decent bait, I r8 it 8/10
Do you get gas every day because you think saving time is bad you fricking moron?
Wow, this is some of the dumbest shit I think I've ever seen on this garbage site.
Precisely none of those are unnecessary and you fricking know it; now stop trying to flex because you spend more time washing dishes than someone else.
heheheheh he's got important video games to play
NTA but yes, it takes time if you do it right, and if you have to juggle career, family, friends, a social life, AND not eat out more than once a week
No it doesn't. Get over yourself
Do you not have a dishwasher?
if you live alone, this isn't a practical solution
so if you're cooking every day, like you suggest
>run the dishwasher every day just so you can reuse cookware
or
>wash up everything by hand so you can use it, bringing us back to where we started
not to mention the litany of things you can't put in the dishwasher - non-stick cookware, rice cooker insert, etc
this is a fair point
i do enjoy cooking, when i actually have the time.
i just can't believe the neets screeching about how anyone who make any sort of concessions in their life to make it slightly easier is a fricking moron
Jesus christ it takes a minute or two to load a dishwasher after each meal. If you have good detergent the dirty plates can sit there for days. Who the frick meal preps to save time on washing dishes? It's about portion control for fat fricks.
From what I can tell, meal prep is more about portion control and dieting than it is about time management. Anyone can whip up a quick meal or order takeout. Meal prep allows you to make portioned meals at your desired calorie level. If you're trying to lose weight, it's harder to overeat when you have food preportioned
Is this bait? So you're telling me to my face that cooking all my work lunches on Sunday when I'm at my house all day with free tune, so I just have to take it out of the fridge in the following mornings, is just as efficient as cooking say, a meatloaf, mashed potatoes, and gravy? When I get up at 5:30am for work? Really?
How much Colt 45s did your mom pound while you were a fetus to make you this much of a massive fricking fetal alcohol syndrome moron?
Have you ever had a job with an 8 hour shift, a commute, and paid for your own living expenses?
If it takes five minutes to boil an egg, how many minutes does it take to boil five eggs?
moron spotted
Spotted the moron.
>how does doing one weekly shopping trip save you time - just do it every day!
No. After the second day you won’t eat the rest.
Test
>Ping
PONG
test
>meal prepping
psychopathic behavior.
it takes no time to cook.
It takes about the same time to cook a meal for 1 as it does a meal for 5. If it's a food that is just fine as leftovers then it makes no sense to cook it 5 times.
And some foods make more sense to cook a lot more at once. Who the frick makes only enough soup for one person? Why not go ahead and portion it into sealable bowls so you can just pull them out and reheat later?
I can't cook a full lunch in the middle of a work day. That's the purpose of meal prepping, having take to work lunches so you're not eating McD every day.
If you are extremely poor, autistic or a bugperson yeah
>he doesn't meal prep 7 meals and cycle the meat every 2 days
ngmi
if you make it healthy it is. healthy is boring, meal prep is boring. those pictures of that shit you see online is just typical bullshit. no sane person is prepping 7 servings of paella and it absolutely will not look like on day 7 what it looked like before day 1... unless you're a co-dependent day-trading mom of a private school white kid.
I've never understood why they prep the whole meal, and not the individual ingredients to make the cooking process quicker. Can anyone explain why?
Most people have jobs and leave their homes.
Not really an answer, I do that and still spend 20-40 mins cooking at night.
Well, me too, I'm not trying to eat left overs for dinner, but lunch is the most commonly meal prepped meal, you big tard. Most meal preppers do it to avoid the temptation to order out or go to a fast food joint when they're too lazy to cook. Get it now ya dumb smug bastard?
Lunch you fricking moron
>individual ingredients
Explain
I'm pretty sure he means like cooking steak, then potatoes, then another side, and then keeping them seperate. That way you can mix and match between different dinners, like if you'd made pasta some other day you could warm up the steak, cut it up and eat it with pasta or something
Y'all dumb af. Dude was talking about shit for.sloppa and soups and stuff.
>Dice garlic onions, celery and carrot
>Chop up some ham
>Dump it all into a bag with some dry lentils or split peas
>Freeze
Then you dump out the bag into an instant pot and have dinner in 15 minutes with "zero" time spent prepping it.
You can individually cook ingredients but that leads to more dishes having the same ingredients. I like to prep a variety of cuisines, one simple meat and three, Mexican, Italian, Asian, Indian, etc. Batch roasting some peppers and onions would be fine but the more variety you have typically means more ingredients and different preparation methods.
basically every meal you cook is gunna have portions leftover anyway
just double the volume of everything you put in
wa la
you've """""meal prepped"""""
bone apple teeth
I spend about $20 and 2 hours every Sunday and make dinners for most of the week, worth it for me. The main benefit for me is only having to think up one meal instead of planning something different every day.
If you live alone and work full time and don't have your mom cooking for you: yes, very much.
You spend a couple hours at most cooking two meals each portioned for 5-7 people, and that gets you enough full meals to last nearly two weeks. You want to do two meals at once so you can alternate throughout that time instead of eating the same thing every day.
This means you come home from work and if you're too tired to cook you don't have to.
Only for one or two days in advance. I don't get how people prep meals for the entire week when fresh made tastes so much better.
Why would anyone want to eat the same meal every day for a week?
If you don't feel like cooking after working all day it's perfect. But eating the same thing everyday sucks, so I recommend leaving meals unseasoned so you can change the taste each day.
Actual modern serfdom
no it's bad
it's stinky
i work at home but even im considering meal prepping now because having to stop to make food instead of just grabbing it and eating it ends up causing me to get distracted and wasting too much time
I meal prep an entire weeks worth of soups and sauces at once. Explain why I shouldn't. You can't.
>its not like my cute bento boxes, that's completely different
>Neets in this thread don't understand time constraints
I prep some things because I wake up early and want homemade food for work.
You can tell their logic they don't live alone, probably have a parent still cooking them meals, come here because they cook in their spare time and are so proud of themselves for not just microwaving shit.
But the reality is that if you're an adult, living on your own or maybe just with one person, you work at least 30 hours a week, then cooking something good twice a day 7 days a week is not something you can afford the time and energy to.
Cooking for 5 takes just as long as cooking the same dish for 1. So cook two dishes for 5, portion it off, alternate the two meals each day, and cook something fresher only when you feel up to it or have time. Or take these prepped meals to work so you're not buying fast food on your lunch break.
Additionally, prepping ingredients. You're not going to use a whole onion in one sitting. Cut enough for a larger meal, store what you don't use, and you can make the same stir fry quickly multiple times that week.
This is basic shit but this thread is full of idiots who think that because something is trendy that means it's bad and you're weak for doing it. But people did this before it was trendy and will do it after. It's just what you do.
Jesus christ man just eat a big breaky and skip lunch lol
>someone who has never worked a 9-5 job
>lol just cook breakfast instead!
Yeah just cook a big tasty breakfast
spoken like a true lazy ass
>the argument is about time constraints
>anon says to wake up an hour earlier so you have time to cook and eat a large meal
>every day
you're moronic.
Yeah eat a big breakfaat and skip lunch or even dinner. Embrace OMAD and have good food everyday instead of week old rice and chicken breast lmfao. You need to rid youraelf of your poverty lifestyle that is holding you back
>3000 calorie clean omad
How?
Nuts and fruit will be doing a lot of the work. Add some honey on w/e. Some coconut oil in your coffee.
If I wake up at 6:30 I have time for cereal or something premade. I also have a manual labour job and burn 3 or 4 thousand calories in an average work day.
I can't skip meals because I'm not going to bite eat goyslop at night to get enough calories back.
I'm not getting up even earlier so I can cook when I can make breakfast while I'm making dinner.
The kids saying meal prep is bad have never worked a day in their lives.
>burn 3 or 4 thousand calories in an average work day
there is no fricking way you burn 4 thousand calories at work, unless you're a rigger that is deadlifting crane loads.
but yeah, if you work, meal-prepping is pretty much a necessity, only neets would argue otherwise.
that said, i got lucky; my new workplace provides subsidizes meals that are cheaper than i could cook myself
3-4k daily is what my Fitbit tells me. Doesn't seem that far off since I normally burn around 2.3k just in a day of not doing much. An extra 1600 is 200 extra calories per hour of work which isn't that many.
just scramble 5 eggs and deenz in one pot jesus
I live on my own and work 40 hours a week most days; I just make dinner for two or more (cooking for one is nigh impossible for some dishes) for dinner and then save that for the following day's lunch. I don't think that quite counts as "food prep", to me it's just leftovers.
Food prep is just intentional leftovers.
you are a normal sensible person, who is not vulnerable to stupid internet trends
congratulations
>stupid internet trends
It's not a trend morons on here just think it is because a few hipsters mentioned it somewhere. It's a normal sensible thing people just do as a practical time saver.
>cook a pot of food
>put it in the fridge
>eat the leftovers all week
Why do you have to make it so homosexual and call it "meal prepping" and form reddit communities about it and buy little Japanese bento boxes and take pictures of it for your Instagram?
It has always been called meal prepping. Leftovers are food you made that happen to have left over portions worth saving for later.
Prepping means preparing ingredients to use in cooking later (like chopping vegetables). Meal prep is preparing a whole finished meals to be eaten later but cooking in bulk. It's just what the fricking words mean. It's not some new hipster invention.
I knew a guy in college (11 years ago) who did meal prep and called it that. He was from a farm in the middle of nowhere missouri. Just because you only recently learned the term doesn't mean it's a trendy hipster thing.
If anything it's closer to just a poverty thing and people are poorer these days.
you're delusional
you need to go back
You're moronic and that's not my problem. People will keep preparing meals for themselves in advance no matter how much you b***h.
I can smell your beard from here, please stop
>just eat breakfast bro
>no I'm not a dumb kid who lives with his mom
>I totally know how to cook for myself
you spend your time making fast food memes on this board.
And it shows.
huh?
Live without mom's cooking for a year and see how you feel.
I haven't seen or spoken to my mother in sixteen years
No surprise that people have mommy issues.
You aren't forced by law to eat only breakfast foods for the breakfast meal you stupid poverty Black person lmfao. Dry brine your meat overnight, throw it and w/e in the oven or pressure cooker. Take a shower then sear and finish with the rest. Some easy lifehavks from me to you
hahahaha oh dear
Nice try. You're still a gay.
>This is basic shit but this thread is full of idiots who think that because something is trendy that means it's bad and you're weak for doing it
Welcome to post-GG PrepHole
Rank2traffic turned out to be a scam site that paywalled fake data and stole people's credit card information. I get a giggle out of every time someone posts that chart because you just know some buttblasted homosexual had to cancel his credit card for the sake of a bullshit fake chart.
>F-Fake! T-There's totally no obnoxious newbies spamming offtopic crap on every board now!
You mean like guys who type out a fake stutter in greentext because someone laughed at their source?
I have been posting on PrepHole since 2009 and I hate myself and my life.
>You're not going to use a whole onion in one sitting.
Frick you, yes I am. If the fricking recipe calls for any fraction of an onion instead of a whole onion it's a SHIT recipe. Same for eggs.
>You're not going to use a whole onion in one sitting
At least where I live most recipes call for AT LEAST a single onion.
Don’t have the energy after working 30 hours? Anon, go to the doctor. Something is wrong.
Based truth-teller
But I enjoy cooking. Plus it takes max like 30 minutes for most things I make. If it takes longer you can always do it in a slow cooker or something
Cooking for one is much faster than cook for 5
>throw chicken in the air fryer
>throw potatoes in the air fryer
>steam some broccoli
>wash 5 to 10 utensils at most
>all together half an hour of the day taken up
>throw chicken in the air fryer
>throw potatoes in the air fryer
>steam some broccoli
>10 utensils
I need a breakdown of this.
Chopping board fir chicken
Chopping board for veg
Chopping knife for chicken
Chopping knife for veg
Potato peeler
Grater (for garlic)
Plate
Fork
Eating knife
Cup for drink of water with meal
so you slap together the kind of meal people used to beat their wives for making and pretend that cooking doesn't take any time
>can’t appreciate the simple foods (ngmi)
>expects me to believe that he works a 9-5, lives alone, comes home to make an immaculate meal every evening, and still has time for all his other errands and 8-16 hours of sleep each night (clearly lying)
>8-16 hours of sleep each night
6 for a man, 7 for a woman, 8 for a fool.
I was going to say that it takes so little time to peel and slice an onion that this must be bait, but then I remembered that some people really can't figure out that part of cooking, so it actually is a big time sink for them and those are the people who usually find "meal prepping" to be a genius idea and don't understand when others scoff at it
I have personally found that anything past 3 days old usually tastes like garbage personally. What I will usually do is make a big meal and portion it in a way where I don't have to throw anything out past 3 days and just pair it with sides (veggies, salad, etc).
for power bottoms, yes
why does meal prepping cause the fast food-vacuuming hamplanets to lose their fricking minds?
Depends on how you go about it. Cooking 3-5 meals worth of food is essential to eating homecooked instead of goyslop when working full time and hitting the gym 3 nights a week. Cooking 10 meals worth of brown rice, plain green beans, and chicken breast on Sunday is setting yourself up for food waste and unplanned cheat meals. Cooking for one is difficult anyway, so you may as well overshoot and get some brownbag lunches and a heat and eat dinner in your fridge.
do you live alone or with people who will steall all your shit
>live in weimerican capitalist dystopia
>work 16 hour shifts, cannot afford a car and the risk of being murdered on the subway isn't covered by your health insurance so take the uber which costs more than you make in a day, going further in debt day after day
>live in a 16 bed dorm with no windows nor kitchen, so survive on batch cooking rice and beans every 6 months and storing your increasingly putrid and botulism ridden "food" under your bed
>use your leased iphone 4 to arrange your fermented and exploding salvaged takeout trays to post on instagram, making sure the chinese spyware installed on your phone track your location, mood, social credit, and blood prozac level
>receive 3 likes
>fall into a diabetic coma to the sound of gunshots and insurrections
Oh say... can you see...
I don't understand Meal Prepping IF you're not going out on a trip, work a job away from home, want to feed your kids actual food instead of cafeteria slop, and stuff like that
Surely, everyone has time in their day to cook up a half-way decent meal right?
Not everyone no, especially with really tiring jobs some people just don't have the energy at the end of every day, so why no prepare for that so you're not falling back on other quick food options that are less healthy? Also for lunches. Most people are doing these so they have something to take to work that's relatively fresh and healthier than other options available at work.
But when people post what you're saying I'm skeptical, have you ever had a full time job?
It's not so much the energy to cook as it is the energy to go to the god damn grocery store every single day or even every other day. I can't be assed to go to the grocery store more than once a week.
Idk I tryied it and day 4 it tastes like ass. Mabye try 2 cooks on sun and wen.
I do it for my work lunches, but I wouldn't do it for every meal.
I do meal prep for post workout meals but that's it. I'm just going to eat the same thing every time anyway so there's not much point in not prepping in advance. Other meals I don't prep for the sake of variety.
if you're fine eating the same thing for a while yeah, it saves time.
>Is meal pooping ligma?
yes meal pooping is ligma
>barely saves time
>food loses flavour and texture
>its all the same, all week
no, its a shitty reddit gimmick.
>You can't meal prep a variety of meals
>spend an entire day making 7 different meals for the week
so you might as well just make them each night and have it fresh you stupid fricking idiot moron
>You can only choose between 1 or 7 meal types a week
ok so what are you saying? you are spending a day making 3 types of one meal and 4 of another? or 2 types of one meal and 2 types of another and 3 types of a another? or more? 14 meals? 5 of one, 3 of one, 2 of one, and 4 of another?
any way you swing it its a fricking moronic shitty idea that takes way too much time (literally more than if you just made the meals on the fly) and ends up giving you lower quality shitty food.
Please explain why making 7-14 meals of 2-4 types in one day takes longer than cooking them from scratch each time
ok say it takes you three hours on sunday to meal prep for the rest of the week. the alternative is cooking every night.
3 hours = 180 minutes
180 minutes / 7 days = 25 minutes a night
so unless you are spending more than 25 minutes to cook your dinner (you shouldnt be), it takes the exact same amount of time to "meal prep", except the meal prep takes three hours out of your day off. even if you are taking 35 or 40 minutes to cook each night, its WORTH IT because an extra 15 or 20 minutes cooking on a tuesday night is more acceptable to normal people than taking a THREE (or more) hour chunk of their fricking weekend. you absolute fricking moronic dipshit, you fell for a reddit meme.
>an extra 15 or 20 minutes cooking on a tuesday night is more acceptable to normal people than taking a THREE (or more) hour chunk of their fricking weekend
especially when that chunk results in really low quality meals later in the week. so congratulations, youve wasted an afternoon of your weekend to (maybe) save a few minutes cooking each week night (when you probably wouldnt be doing anything else anyway), but the food is worse.
>a few minutes
Let's say you want to eat Bolognese this week
You could cook a large batch once, spending 30 minutes of prep and then letting it simmer for three hours. You then clean the pot once.
Or you could do this 7 times, given each cook takes about the same time whether it's 1 serving or 7.
terrible analogy since nobody makes single portions of bolognese just like they dont make single portions of lasagne or chili. have a nice day.
how about using the typical "meal prep" foods like chicken and rice and vegetables? you wont because it makes meal prep seem like a complete and utter stupid meme that YOU FELL FOR
So we agree that meal prep makes sense for a range of dishes
excuse me but making a pot of chili or bolognese that you can have leftovers for a couple of days or otherwise freeze is not "meal prep" since this is the way it is prepared by definition: in a huge pot.
meal prep is making your gay little meals and portioning them out into gay little tupperwares and then reheating on friday the shitty soggy green beans you cooked on sunday, choking it down and saying to yourself "MMM SOOO GOOD BOY AM I GLAD I SAVED THAT 20 EXTRA MINUTES OF TIME"
have a nice day you dishonest TWAT
If preparing meals of chilli ahead of schedule for the week isn't meal prep, what is it? Your issue seems to be with specific meals
>pedantic moron splitting hairs for the sake of le ebin meme argument on PrepHole
seriously, have a nice day.
Is your "meal prep" chilli every single week? No? Do you only rotate through meals like chilli, spaghetti, soup, etc? No? Then shut the frick up.
Can cook quite a range of things in bulk, so yes it's easily possible to imagine a varied rotation
Assuming cooking in bulk saves time (which it indisputably does), what's stopping you from doing this meal prep on a weeknight instead of a weekend?
>what's stopping you from doing this meal prep on a weeknight
nothing in practice but most people would rather spend 30 minutes cooking each night than spend 3 hours cooking one night after a full day at work just so they can have really shitty reheated meals for the rest of the week. admit you are a fat stupid moron who cant actually cook and fell for a reddit meme.
Alternatively lets say it's monday and you are about to do 35 minutes of cooking for one meal, you could instead do 40 minutes of cooking and produce three times the amount for three meals.
Time saving is obvious.
A PrepHole poster cooked his meals 7 days in advance. This is what happened to his balls.
Audibly laughed.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with making a big batch of pasta sauce every couple of weeks
It can be if you're disciplined enough; however I prefer just having a fridge full of prepped ingredients to quickly throw together single portions instead.
Tried once and never went back. It's awful. None of the dishes I like can be prepared like that and be as good 3 or 5 days later. Grandma would turn in her grave and come cook as a zombi if she knew her grandson was eating like shit. No, I have a culinary heritage to honor, I am not british damn it.
t. peruvian
what's the difference between meal prep and eating leftovers? I cook on the weekend and eat whatever I made for the rest of the week so I don't have to cook when I get home from work. I don't use a microwave to reheat it though and make fresh rice or pasta to go with it.
All the moronic posts in here trying to spin meal prep as something bad are just homosexuals who never lived alone, still have their mom cooking for them, and never worked a full time job in their life.
>Oh just cook in the morning!
>Oh you have time every single day to buy and cook fresh food for both lunch and dinner!
>a job, lunch breaks? What's that?
This site has too many underaged kids on it.
seething meal prep redditor samehomosexual
>everyone who disagrees with me is a samegay
or you're just moronic and don't know what the frick you're talking about because your mom still cooks most of your meals. She lets you feel independent when you make noodles for yourself but then invites you upstairs for dinner to get the actual nutrition you're lacking.
You mean your workplace doesn't have a cafeteria, or at least a decent restaurant nearby? You mean you can't afford to go there most days? You mean you can't throw together a simple and tasty meal in 20 minutes?
Let's be honest, the only reason you're so obsessed with meal prep is because you're a total loser with no life skills.
>not having desirable enough skills so your company will let you WFH
shiggydiggit
imagine unironically being so fricking stupid and useless that you "cant cook" because you "have a job". normal well adjusted people can manage both just fine without autistically making a bunch of chicken and rice in advance.
Brutal
>normal well adjusted people
i would like to meet these people, honestly
at the warehouse i worked at, breakdown was roughly
>PrepHole-types reheating mymusclechef or similar premade meals
>sad sacks reheating meal prep (myself included)
>the idiots who wnet out and got fast food every day
>the one tweaked-out looking dude who made instant noodles with the kettle, day in, day out
how many 4HLs actually take the time to cook every day? hell, how many grown-ass adults actually know how to cook for themselves?
oh sorry, most normal well adjusted people have jobs that finish at 5 oclock and dont time their bathroom breaks.
Correct.
Normal well adjusted people back in the day had wives to cooks for them and gave zero fricks about exercise and working out
kek you are a real fricking moron arent you. I live alone and cook every night. Both of my parents worked and my mom cooked every night. Youre just lazy and useless.
Lying is a sin anon
>anyone who isnt so low energy that they literally collapse, unable to cook for 20 minutes after work is lying
actual loser.
>imagine unironically
Opinion discarded.
go back to /r/mealprepsunday, its more your speed
Considering the way you type I think it's laughable that you'd tell anyone to go back to anywhere.
kek, have a nice day newhomosexual
>Imagine unironically poster calling anyone a newbie
yes.
Stop fighting
What a shameful display.
People, people, what if neither position is wrong?
Some prefer a freshly cooked meal and spend their time on that
Some prefer to save time on meals and spend it on other things
Neither are wrong
Fricking hate how reddit thinks preparing a large batch of food and eating it over multiple days is a hobby. I often prepare a large batch of food and eat it over 4-5 days, but I don't call it "meal prepping" or some gay shit like that.
People lost their religion, or never even had religion in the first place, so the only replacement they have is to form their identity around corporate brand loyalty and narcissistic virtue signalling. They congeal into myopic "communities" dedicated to some insignificant bullshit and then let it utterly dominate their life because nothing else gives them a feeling of purpose or meaning. They receive validation and approval from other narcissists, ever fueling their descent into the pseudo-cult.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a Christcuck either, but I recognize the historical importance religion had in the human mind and the terrifying replacements that we've made for it since the industrial revolution. I don't have a solution.
Does anyone here meal prep one day at a time? So you make a meal in the evening for tomorrow's brunch/lunch at work? Eating out is becoming a bit too pricey for me so I'm looking at alternatives. I guess some quick/easy made meals could work? What do you guys do? Or do you just eat out when at work? I don't really have any leftovers because I live in a big family and nothing is left over usually so I'd have to make a special meal just for work.
I do that. I find it more easy to stick to eating my meals, not hitting the drive through instead.
Frick me I needed that image, thanks.
/ck/'s obsession with meal prep hate is fricking hilarious to me considering 90%+ posts on this board are fast food circlejerks. Not everyone wants to use 20-30 minutes of their limited free time cooking a meal after working 8-12 hours. Neets and college students who skip class wouldn't know this. Meal prepping is quicker, cheaper, healthier, and tastier than getting garbage ass fast food. It's quicker, cheaper, can be healthier, and can be tastier than mediocre take out. You've never actually tried any form of meal prepping if you think otherwise.
not to mention lunch. if i don't want to waste $15-$20 on lunch everyday, I've got to bring something in and I like having a big meal so i've got energy for the gym after work.
r/mealprep's obsession with meal prep love is fricking hilarious to me considering 90%+ posts on this subreddit are moronic overtime wagie losers and divorced incels. Not everyone wants to use 3-4 hours of their limited free time cooking 15 meals after working their comfy, high paying 9 to 5 when they could just use 20-30 minutes each night cooking a fresher, tastier meal instead, or visiting a high quality restaurant where they take women on dates. Meal prepping is more time consuming because high value individuals value their free time such that spending several hours at once preparing low quality meals is simply not acceptable; it's a waste of time, which is more valuable than yours. You've never actually been a high value individual if you think otherwise.
Cool. Didn't know you went to reddit. Thanks for telling us though.
It's easier if you're cooking for just yourself since cooking everyday with store ingredients is expensive, especially if you're buying single person portions since they're usually more expensive for some reason.
I never got why people do it with pasta though, just put the sauce in a container and make some fresh pasta each time. Obviously that doesn't work for some things, but you can easily store a lot of them, and then you don't have to eat rubbery pasta for the next four days
Also it helps to have a big freezer, since I don't trust leftovers more than two days old. That way you also don't have to eat the same thing four days in a row
Most recipes online are also usually for four people so it saves having to bother converting everything
yes
i think there's a lot of demoralization going on in this thread, going beyond clueless NEETs
>what, are you too moronic to come up with different meals?
>what, are you too lazy to cook every day?
>what, are you too poor to buy lunch every day?
to every anon out there working a real job, being sensible about caloric intake and frugal with money, good for you, keep it up
You're a good man
It can be, pick foods that refridgerate/store well or freeze well and focus on things like lunch instead of supper and it's worth it imo.
Meal prepping is really gay, it only makes sense if you have to cook every meal like your life depends on it like some autist.
I cook lazily. I hate using too many pans/pots or utensils because I know it will have to be cleaned, I refuse to spend more than half an hour slaving away in the kitchen to make something, finishing things off in the oven is ideal. I eat shit loads of boiled eggs just because they're good, healthy snacks and help when you're waiting for something in the oven to finish
None of this is hard and can easily fit around a full time job. I really don't understand how people can't cook lazily and save themselves the headache of planning meals and preparing 7 of them in a day, what a shit way to spend your weekend. I also never bother eating lunch, I just eat a lot in the morning and feel fine until the evening
Why are you on a cooking board if you don't like/want to to cook you boiled egg eating bastard?
I like cooking and try out more adventurous things when I have time.
Meal prepping isn't lame, but taking pictures and posting it on Reddit is
/Thread
Eggs for breakfast
Smoothie for lunch
Proper meal consist of one meet, one veg, and one carb for dinner
Time efficient, healthy, affordable, and you won’t have to meal prep.
I tried meal prepping but my brothers kept stealing my meals. Plus I realised I was really bad at portion sizes and my last meal would always be short. Plus food goes off after 3 days. Easier to just shit out one quick meal a night and if ipI happen to be so busy I can’t cook I just scramble eggs and eat them with spinach or kale. It’s not a big deal.
>meal prep gays seething
every thread lmao
It's weird to me that people think bringing prepared food in a container is in any way new or strange. I see people bringing up bento boxes like lunch boxes aren't already a thing here in the West. When I was a kid my mom packed me sandwiches with the innards in one bag and the bread in another and I kept it in an insulated lunch box and combined it all with a mustard packet from the cafeteria. As an adult I largely kept the same habit but I had to bring my own mustard and used reusable containers. I get home, I parcel out a serving of lunchmeat and put it in its container which goes in the fridge. Put the bread in its container. Put the ice pack in the freezer. Put it all in my lunch box in the morning before I go to work and I have lunch solved. I was doing this myself as early as 2010 and you gays want to tell me it's some new internet trend? Frick off.
>he thinks making a sandwich the night before work and putting it in a lunchbox is "meal prep"
you are fricking stupid
By definition it is preparing a meal.
>autism
Very common quality among meal preppers
>meal preppers
But if that's not not
>meal prep
then I can't be a
>meal prepper
We are talking about autistic morons making a huge batch of usually chicken/rice/steamed vegetables on Sunday and eating it throughout the week, every day, until next Sunday when they do it again.
The most autistic ones will do things like make 30 breakfast burritos and freeze them so you can have shitty soggy reheated rubbery egg wraps every morning all month.
>We are talking about autistic morons making a huge batch of usually chicken/rice/steamed vegetables on Sunday and eating it throughout the week, every day, until next Sunday when they do it again.
Why would you even care?
>Why would you even care?
>OP: Is meal prepping worth it?
do you even read threads or do you just barge in spewing irrelevant bullshit all the time?
You're quoting a post in reply to me, not OP. Moreover that's not answering OP's question it's b***hing about
>autistic morons
No shit I read the thread, I mentioned a post that occurred yesterday you miserable little turd.
>You're quoting
My bad, *I was quoting
>OP asks if meal prepping is worth it
>200 posts ensue, comprising several different conversations on the pros and cons of meal prepping
pretty standard stuff you big dumb gay.
>conversations on the pros and cons of meal prepping
Like
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What salient posts, I wonder who made them.
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There's plenty of on topic stuff but there's plenty that isn't which prompted my original post of
>It's weird to me that people think bringing prepared food in a container is in any way new or strange.
>It's weird to me that people think bringing prepared food in a container is in any way new or strange.
nobody thinks that. you are creating an argument in your own mind so you can play wise sensible anon in your made up fantasy world.
>nobody thinks that.
>It's not some new hipster invention.
>you're delusional
I'm clearly not the only person who noticed this.
literally nobody thinks meal prepping is new aside from some morons on here who want to think its new so they can call it reddit and seethe about it
I only ever see gym types, I usually just pack a sandwich or burrito.
YT people gentrified leftovers and now tupperware costs more because its "designed for meal prepping" I hate this place
It's pretty much mandatory if you work a job with long hours, like construction.
Else you're throwing up random shit and eating takeout throughout the week.
>It's pretty much mandatory if you work a job with long hours, like construction
why wouldn't your wife pack you a meal if you're too far away to go back home for a hot lunch?
Because the vast majority of construction workers on new ground up sites are single/divorced men who live alone and end up eating cold food because there's no temp power
Feels good to be a commercial high rise plumber who always has temp power before I even arrive. Literally have a mini fridge, microwave and coffee maker I keep in our lock-up and drag up months later when I'm done.
>save money
>eat healthier
meal prepping at first can seem like a chore, but after you do the same recipies a few times you'll be cranking out a week's worth of food in something like 30 - 40 minutes.
"meal prepping" is counterproductive
just cook in bulk
>fridge full of various freshly cooked food i only need to throw on the pan for a few minutes to heat up
>come home to a choice of cooked meats to add to any dish
>large containers of cooked veggies, rice, etc
i can choose what to combined and add sauces or extras to make unique dishes
>use glass containers with dividers
>use chicken thighs instead of spongey shitty breasts
>have a variety of sides and marinades/sauces
waaaahhhh it's too hard and isn't as tasty and fresh as a Big Mac®
Obsessed
No. Cooking daily has a spiritual value. Most people's days are dominated by unending tedium, working towards goals that won't be attained for years. Cooking at the end of the day is a creative outlet which allows you to see a project from beginning to end in a short time span. It gives you a daily dopamine hit that only completion of a job can provide.
I love you
>NOOOOO I CAN'T SPEND 20 MINUTES COOKING EACH DAY THIS IS TOO MUCH EFFORT I CANNOT FUNCTION LIKE THIS
I bet those are the same wagies that pretend medieval peasants had better lives but cooking each day is beyond them lmao
i mean... it does save time and money/electricity...
yes of course, only incels don't
meal preppers are adults who never learned to cook growing up and don't have much interest in food
they're used to eating either fast food, some other kind of takeout, ready made frozen meals or lunches packed by their mothers (you can tell this when you look at the photos of their food, they are trying to replicate the look of either takeout, frozen dinners or mommy's lunches or from when they were a kid)
at some point they realized they need to cook homemade meals, either to save money or for health reasons or both
and because they never learned how to cook this takes them a very long time
and having little interest in food makes it worse, because it is a boring chore for them
it's so excruciating for them that they can only bear to cook one meal a week
so they cook their shitty meal and attempt to pack it up in a way that gives them the feeling of security and comfort
"it's ok, it's ok, you won't have to cook again for the rest of the week, look someone has made all these meals for you! it's ok"
how many years of obsessed seething did it take you to build up this meal prepper boogeyman in your mind?
zero
I'm sharing my observations of things which are very evident
the seething in this thread seems to be coming from those who are projecting their own fears and frustrations, the endless anxiety of the meal prepper
Your extremely narrow view on something you've never actually observed outside of getting on the internet. Things that are very evident eh? I don't give a shit about meal preppers but you're so full of yourself it's embarrassing considering how hypocritical your post is
yes
I have a friend who hardcore meal preps (cooks like twice a month) and used to be a chef.
How would you explain?
you're using a very loose definition of meal prepping
So cooking food one week in advance is criminal autist, but two weeks in advance is fine.
I prep meat (meatballs esp)
not whole meals though. I make whatever on the day/weekend and add a few pre-cooked frozen meatballs in as the main or additional meat
every meal prepper i ever met has been a huge gay
Wait my woman used a normal pot to can chicken soup like 6 months ago, is it actually going to kill me?
I enjoy preparing food for far in the future. All you really need is hardtack and pemmican. Sometimes I don't feel like making pemmican, so I get a big block of aged cheddar (last forever with vinegar), make banana chips (couple weeks), and jerky. It takes about a full day of putting stuff in an oven and forgetting, and I end up with at least a week or 2's worth of food. Some day, I'd like to make an entire month worth of food in a 2 day window. Also, I make coffee by grinding the beans with mortar/pestle and boiling it in a pot; that's how I eat the hardtack, which is otherwise inedible. If anons learn to can, cure, ferment, and pickle, you could probably store over a year's worth of food with maybe a week's effort or less.