Meal Prep Question

My breakfast and lunch are usually pretty similar. I keep those consistent and high protein, because it frees up some macros so that I can eat whatever the wife cooks for dinner with the family. I'm not super strict, but I find that gives me a good balance of keeping a good diet and being able to eat normal with the family at night.

For meals-

Breakfast- i like to get 5 of the just crack an egg cups. I add 2 or 3 eggs and microwave. Makes life really easy with 3 boys under 10. You could even do egg whites here to keep the calories even lower.

Lunch- i like to buy the veggie skewers, 1 for each day. I buy the chicken breast fajita bags from sams by John souls, I do the 16lz bag in the air fryer. After its defrosted good, I add seasoning, take the veggies from the skewer and maybe one onion or some mushrooms and throw in. I toss with a little evoo, season and cook.

If you are eating carbs, the quinoa & brown rice bags from sams by seeds of change are easy. I usually heat a bag in microwave while sautéing some trinity(i buy precut) in a non stick pan. I'll throw the bag in after with a little mushrooms. Throw a bag of the fajita chicken in the air fryer then throw in with the rice. Add a little seasoning, little soy sauce or other Asian sauce and you have a quick and healthy fried rice that you can split for one or two meals.

Key for all of this is the veggies. Using them to add volume to the food while keeping calories low.

I personally prefer to limit my carbs. But even if you don't plan to do that and you have a wife and kids, I encourage you to limit them throughout the day to allow flexibility at night. Especially if you are big on family dinner.

I lost 15 lbs in 60 days doing something similar.

Scrambled eggs (occasionally oatmeal with powdered PB and a small scoop of trail mix.

Lunches and dinners were meat (chicken, tuna, or tilapia) carbs (brown rice or baked sweet potatoes) and veggies (green beans, Brussels sprouts, broccoli/ cauliflower, peas/carrots).

Main thing was keeping my macros in line and cutting out simple sugars. No sodas, no snack cakes, no candy bars, etc. Only sugars I got were from OJ and a tiny bit of trail mix with fruit in it or frozen blueberries in my oatmeal.

Spinach/mushroom/feta/egg white omelet, turkey burger, put rotisserie chicken pieces with greens, tomato, avocado for a salad, puréed vegetable soup with an onion, chicken or vegetable stock, carrots, celery, broccoli or whatever vegetables you like, salt and pepper.