re: Meal Prep help!

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Please share your favorite meal prep recipes. I workout semi-regularly but my diet needs some work. I cook pretty decent dinners but break fast and lunch need some work. Meals that are super filling would be helpful, as I seem to want to snack late morning and late afternoon. What are some of your favorite breakfast and lunch recipes that might make enough for a few days? Thanks in advance!

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can you tell us a little more?

is it just you or kids too you are cooking for?

are you able to reheat at work? if not could you get the electric lunch box?

what kind of macros are you looking for? what are your overall macros?

i ask because i could give you a million ideas and 99% might be a waste because it doesnt apply to your situation.

Breakfast is either overnight oats or a protein shake.

For lunch, I typically grill big on Sat or Sun and use that for the week: chicken, burgers, pork chops, etc, etc. While the wife and I go out to eat regularly (at least twice a week), I never go out for breakfast or lunch.


Does coffee count as water?

breakfast is always the same for me, i try to keep that simple
4 eggs and 1 packet kodiak oatmeal and i pack quacker low sugar oatmeal. simple, i like it, i dont need change it, its fast.

for lunch i vary much more. to me making components you can prep in advance and put together through the week is the way to go.

so for me:
protein:
Large turkey drumsticks (not smoked, raw) into a dutch oven. Bone, skin, all. Cover 1/3 way with diet 5 cran juice, then mostly rest way with water. Salt (pretty generous) and any other seasonings you want to add (bay leafs, pepper corns, what ever your fancy). Cover and into oven for 2.5-3 hours at 370.

pull and let cool for bit. once cool enough shred the meat from bones and keep. toss skin and bones obviously. meat will be fall apart tender. strain and save the liquid from the pot. This, because of the skin and bones is golden, full of collagen.

use liquid to make a good solid soup. Freeze the soup, or let sit in fridge for couple of hours. fat will float to top. remove the fat.
soup base for me is
1-2 sweet onions
1-2 bell pepper
celery
2 shallot
simmer until wilted down as you would normally, im going to assume you know how to cook, so not going to go into detail
add in the amount of your prepared stock and simmer for 20-30 minutes. add your seasoning (for me, pepper, cayenne, saffron, parsley). you may not need to add much salt if you salted your juice/water for the turkey generously.
Add in 2 typical commercial bag frozen sweet peas. Hit with a stick blender until smooth.

4-6 oz turkey depending on your protein needs, cup or two soup, and a heart slice of toast or two is a pretty satisfying lunch. if you dont like peas sub out for something else. ive done a carrot soup.

one cook on sunday and you got a week worth of lunch easy.

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when im trying to lose weight i opt for the breakfast since i find i have more energy for the workout session and subsequent day and skip or limit my dinner.

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well if you are working out around breakfast time thats different


but yea just choose what works for you.

I only meal prep my protein. I figure out the carbs and fats later.
I grill chicken once a week. I cook beef once a week. I eat eggs twice a day (I drink whites for one of them). I drink protein shakes between meals for a snack.

When you eat protein 6-7 times per day, there isn't much room for worrying about many other calories.

Log into chat GPT - tell it your age height weight and daily macro target. Tell it to give you meal ideas for a day with macro breakdown per meal.

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chicken breast

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Pastas, butter chicken, quesadillas, salads

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When you eat protein 6-7 times per day, there isn't much room for worrying about many other calories.

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This.