Ultimate Meal Prep Guide: Easy Steps for Stress-Free Weekly Cooking (5 Recipes in 2 Hours)

As featured on Fox KTVU 2, Salt & Honey has prepared a meal preparation guide that provides plenty of options throughout your busy work week. These recipes are intended to be modular and thus, allows for the user to create multiple meals with relative ease after the recipes are completed.

This meal prep guide is perfect for busy weeks as cooking once a week can provide meals for days. We also provide helpful tips and remixes for the recipes provided in this downloadable meal prep guide.

Meal Prep Guide Time Allotment: 2-3 hours for full prep.

why we love meal prepping: 
This meal prep guide focuses on preparing core meal components, making it easier to assemble a variety of dishes throughout the week. When the weekend is especially busy and only an hour or two is available, the priority is to accomplish as much as possible within the time you have available. Additional prep can be incorporated throughout the week, such as chopping extra vegetables or cooking more protein to use across multiple meals.

This image provides an insight on how long this entire meal prep will take and its benefits.

Why We Love Meal Prepping:

This meal prep guide focuses on preparing core meal components, making it easier to assemble a variety of dishes throughout the week. When the weekend is especially busy and only an hour or two is available, the priority is to accomplish as much as possible within the time you have available. Additional prep can be incorporated throughout the week, such as chopping extra vegetables or cooking more protein to use across multiple meals.

As highlighted in KTVU’s spotlight, our meal prep guide also saves you money! Meal preparation, if done right, can organize your week saving you time and money from eating out. Although, we recommend dedicating one day of the week to a takeout night, which aids in breaking the routine and gives you something to look forward to.

The many benefits including sharpening your skills in the kitchen, monetary gain, and being conscious of the ingredients you put in your body are bundled into meal preparation.

What Is Included?

In this Salt & Honey exclusive meal preparation guide, we provide a series of meal components such as sauces, veggies, protein, a baked good, and condiments.

Sauces

This can be a salad dressing, dip or sauce that can elevate your veggies and proteins. Sauces can aid in switching up your daily palette and keeping meals interesting.

Ex: Hummus, vinaigrette, etc.

Veggies

Whether it’s prepping your lettuce for salads, shredding, slicing or dicing veggies, prep some of these ahead of time so they are easy to grab for a quick snack, lunch or side with dinner.

Ex. Broccoli, carrots, peas, etc.

Protein

We advise focusing on one protein. Whether it’s press and dice tofu, cook off a batch a beans, braise chicken thighs, roast beef, or marinating pork, using a versatile protein allows for variety.

Ex. Herb roasted chicken, tofu, pulses and beans, etc.

Baked Good

Typically a dual purpose item like a muffin or quick bread that can function as a dessert or on-the-go breakfast.

Ex. Breakfast cookie, blueberry muffin, etc.

Condiments

Include flavorful condiments to enhance flavors and add variety to meals.

Ex. pickled onions, seed mix etc.

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