By Food as Medicine; Dr. RS YouTube Channel
Healthy Wealthy and Wise!
Meal prepping is a great way to keep on track with what you are eating, it can help with weight loss, saving money, minimizing waste, and can also save a ton of time throughout the week that can be used to benefit your good health.
According to Good Housekeeping Magazine, there are three common techniques for food prepping:
• Make big recipes at once (like on the weekend) and freeze or save them for later use
• Individually proportion prepared food into individual or dinner-size portions
• Prepped ingredients – chopping, peeling, slicing, or roasting beforehand to use throughout the week in your preplanned recipes
Taste of Home has some great recipe ideas to get you started! Visit tasteofhome.com to get started.
Your Health benefits:
Weight Loss
• Helping us make healthier choices by having good, healthy options ready
• Helps us avoid temptations such as fast foods or snacking
• Helps with portion control
• Helps with hunger management
Reduce Stress
Throughout the week you will know you have food ready and do not have to figure out things at the last minute every day.
Prepping and planning out your meals helps reduce stress and lets you stick to a more routine way of eating which will help your weight and physical health.
Saves Time and Money
• Buying in bulk helps to save money
• Spend less on last-minute options like unhealthy
fast food
• Helps make healthy eating more affordable
• Save yourself the time of cooking or going shopping every day.
• This extra time each day can be used for exercising or meditation and can be a great help to your overall health.
There are a few things to pay attention to when you first start:
• Make sure you’re making balanced meals
• Pay attention to portions and make sure there are plenty of fruits and vegetables
• Choose healthy options
•Make sure you invest in good, sealable containers so the food stays fresh.
Meal prepping can be a great way not only to save you time and money but also a great way to be healthier through better and more consistent food choices.