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Usually meal prep for bodybuilding is all the same. You pick a day and cook, weigh and package your food for the week.
Quick point, if youre not working from home lunch will be typical meal prep but in my opinion, doing this for breakfast and dinner has been a huge help for me personally.
Rather than do it this way, I menu plan for the upcoming week and figure out how much of each ingredient im going to use for an entire week and just prep that.
Veggies diced, meat trimmed and portioned, carbs weighed out and portioned.
Then, rather than just microwave to reheat something, I can cook my food fresh and it only takes a few extra minutes to eat something hot and fresh, rather than something just microwaved. My typical meal cook time is 11 minutes start to finish.
Meat and fish will be sliced thin to reduce cooking time, veggies will have a smaller chop or dice, carbs will be portioned for just grab and dump. Same thing with sauces and toppings.
Jasmine rice takes all of 15 min and any meat or fish can be done at 3 to 4 minutes per side.
I even do this with oatmeal and fruit for breakfast.
If you get creative, you could even do this for lunch if you have access to a microwave.
If anyone's interested in this, ill add some prep quantities and recipes to the recipe thread. All you need to do is adjust for your particular macros.
Quick point, if youre not working from home lunch will be typical meal prep but in my opinion, doing this for breakfast and dinner has been a huge help for me personally.
Rather than do it this way, I menu plan for the upcoming week and figure out how much of each ingredient im going to use for an entire week and just prep that.
Veggies diced, meat trimmed and portioned, carbs weighed out and portioned.
Then, rather than just microwave to reheat something, I can cook my food fresh and it only takes a few extra minutes to eat something hot and fresh, rather than something just microwaved. My typical meal cook time is 11 minutes start to finish.
Meat and fish will be sliced thin to reduce cooking time, veggies will have a smaller chop or dice, carbs will be portioned for just grab and dump. Same thing with sauces and toppings.
Jasmine rice takes all of 15 min and any meat or fish can be done at 3 to 4 minutes per side.
I even do this with oatmeal and fruit for breakfast.
If you get creative, you could even do this for lunch if you have access to a microwave.
If anyone's interested in this, ill add some prep quantities and recipes to the recipe thread. All you need to do is adjust for your particular macros.