How to Meal Prep if You Hate Leftovers

Tell me if you can relate…

A lot of people tell me one of the reasons they don’t meal prep is because either they or someone in their home won’t eat leftovers.

Understandable!

But guess what?  It’s still possible to get all of the time-saving and stress-busting benefits of meal prepping WITHOUT having to eat last night’s dinner!

Here’s how: instead of cooking entire meals in advance, you cook and/or prep your INGREDIENTS ahead of time.

• Proteins
• Fats (butter, saved bacon fat, coconut oil)
• Pre-chop your veggies

Then, just before it’s time to eat, just assemble the meal from your prepped ingredients.

Some ideas:

• You could poach chicken breasts, bake a tray of bacon strips, slow-cook and shred a pork shoulder, or cook up a brisket to use in many different meals
• Wash and chop your green leafies like lettuce, spinach, brussels, and broccoli.
• Chop onions, dice carrots, or slice bell peppers.

Having everything prepped and on standby makes throwing together a balanced meal fast and easy.  Professional chefs call this technique their "mise en place".

A chef friend of mine once also told me:

“Cooking is easy.  All you have to do is make sure all of the ingredients taste good.  If they all taste good, then your meal will taste good.”

And it’s true!

You could create a taco or burrito bowl, make a stir fry, assemble a casserole, or even create one of my personal go-to meals when I’m busy:  the Anything Bowl!

The Anything Bowl is definitely NOT gourmet but it is delicious.

All you do is combine a portion each of protein, non-starchy carbs, and green leafy stuff in a bowl, and (this is the key) top it with your favorite healthy (no sugar and no seed oil) sauce or seasoning.

You could add guacamole, sriracha, low-sugar barbecue sauce, or coconut aminos.  Heat it up, and voila!  It’s time to eat.

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Make it an amazing day!