Food Prep

Food prepping is a great way save money, build healthier eating habits, and to take stress off during the work week. I began the Sunday food prep when started teaching. I was working at a rural school 65 miles away from my home and often wouldn’t make it home until later in the evening. The last thing I wanted to do after a day of teenagers and 130 miles roundtrip driving, was cook a meal from scratch. I also didn’t want to fall onto take out or fast food which are less healthy and start to get expensive.

That’s when I took the skills I had learned cooking in restaurants, added a bit of planning, and began meal prepping. Here you can find the step by step instructions on how to do the bulk of the work for 5 nights of fresh, healthy, from scratch dinners (with a bit of leftover for lunch) in just a few hours on a Sunday (or Saturday, or Monday or Wednesday, I don’t know your life).

ABOUT THE RECIPES

The recipes you’ll find here are “Paleo Inspired”. I eat weekday paleo adjacent- which is to say during the week (and on Sunday for me) my food contains no refined sugars (although you will see natural sugars coming from fruit, honey, maple syrup etc.), no flour and no dairy. Unlike a traditional paleo diet I do include whole grains and legumes. At some point I will do a blog post about the paleo diet and my thoughts on the science that is sound, and not so sound. The recipes you will find here will reflect this, although I’ll include ways that you can change it up if you love cheese, or, like me, have someone in your household who is no so strict.

Generally, in a weeks worth of recipes I have a variety of fish, poultry, and vegetarian with a little bit of beef now and again. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE beef, but I do try and be sparing with it. I do a mix of larger meals for the sake of a few lunch leftovers, such as a pot roast or a soup, and meals that will be completely finished in one sitting, such as a grilled chicken or veggie burger. I also try and maintain a variety of flavors and ethnicities so that you never get board! All with the goal of a few hours of prep on a weekend, and no more than 10 minutes of work for any meal during the week.