How much food prep do you do?

[joenali]

What do prep in advance?

[mandiespharm]

I still do this now even though I'm not currently doing a W30. But I have a lot more motivation to do this in the winter than I do in the summer. DH and I tend to make a few extra of whatever we are cooking for dinner (pork chops, burgers, etc) to have to eat for lunch too

On either Sunday or Monday which ever is my day off I:

- Peel and slice up 4-6 large sweet potatoes. In the summer I grill them and in the winter I bake them with a little bit of olive oil and s/p.
- Cut up peppers, onions, mushrooms or whatever else I have in the fridge (kale/spinach). Pan fry some bacon. Scramble 18 eggs and then bake a frittatta in a 9x11 pan for an hour or so.
- Grill or bake 8-10 chicken breasts or thighs to use for lunch


- Sometimes I'll get fresh bulk sausage and pan fry that with plantains and onions and jalapenos to eat with eggs
- In the winter I like to take ground beef or turkey and pan fry it with fresh cilantro and other veggies then use tomatoes that we canned and make a "sauce" to put together a goulash but without the pasta

[spankswife]

We make something in the crockpot on Sundays for lunches, for at least half the week. Otherwise we mostly prep each meal at the time of cooking. Twice a week we try to make something larger so it lasts two nights. Otherwise everything is pretty much the same.

For us it is more about the planning then the actual food prep itself.

[Deleted]

I usually do 2-3 meals ahead of time.

For example, yesterday, I made pepper steak for that night's dinner (but enough for lunch today). I also made chicken in the crock pot with onions/spices to make chicken fajita chili (I'll add more chicken stock and the peppers and heat on the stove for tomorrow night's dinner/leftovers). Finally, I made potato, ham, and cabbage soup that will be tonight's dinner + leftovers.

It took a little under 2 hours to prep everything.

[wambam]

I do the one day ahead method. I cook tonight what I’ll eat tomorrow. So I don’t get home from the gym ravenous and still have to cook. I eat and THEN cook. It works really well for me.

[spankswife]

Aug 25, 2014 15:25:48 GMT -5 @beachgal said:

I usually do 2-3 meals ahead of time.

For example, yesterday, I made pepper steak for that night's dinner (but enough for lunch today). I also made chicken in the crock pot with onions/spices to make chicken fajita chili (I'll add more chicken stock and the peppers and heat on the stove for tomorrow night's dinner/leftovers). Finally, I made potato, ham, and cabbage soup that will be tonight's dinner + leftovers.

It took a little under 2 hours to prep everything.

Do you have a recipe for ham/cabbage/potato soup? Is it hard to find compliant ham?

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Aug 25, 2014 16:30:50 GMT -5 spankswife said:

Aug 25, 2014 15:25:48 GMT -5 @beachgal said:

I usually do 2-3 meals ahead of time.

For example, yesterday, I made pepper steak for that night's dinner (but enough for lunch today). I also made chicken in the crock pot with onions/spices to make chicken fajita chili (I'll add more chicken stock and the peppers and heat on the stove for tomorrow night's dinner/leftovers). Finally, I made potato, ham, and cabbage soup that will be tonight's dinner + leftovers.

It took a little under 2 hours to prep everything.

Do you have a recipe for ham/cabbage/potato soup? Is it hard to find compliant ham?

Recipe

I used the green Chinese cabbage (looks more like celery) and I used two vs one Yukon gold potatoes.

For the ham, I used the Applegate Natural Black Forest Ham (found at Trader Joe's). We had the soup last night for dinner and H loved it and he's not a soup person.