Nick Bare

So you have breakfast, lunch, dinner, breakfast, lunch, dinner, breakfast, lunch, dinner prepared for Monday through Friday.

That is a way to meal prep.

That's not the way that I meal prep.

So if your response is, I don't have time to do that.

Well, neither do I. So my approach to meal prep into food prep is to just find five to 10 minutes here and there throughout the week.

It doesn't have to be all in one day to prepare foods and meals.

So here's like the rhythm in which I take the approach.

Sometimes in the morning, after getting back from my morning run and the kids aren't awake yet, I'll fire up the Traeger and I'll throw some chicken breast on the Traeger.

And then maybe at night, once the kids go down before I hop in the sauna, before going to sleep, I'll throw some rice on the rice cooker and I'll heat that up.

And right before I go to bed, I'll take it off the rice cooker when it's done and I'll throw it in the fridge.

And then maybe when we're wrapping up dinner at night and we're cleaning up,

I'll throw a few packs of ground beef in a pan over the stove and cook up the ground beef as we're cleaning up.

And I'll throw the ground beef on there.

I'll season it.

I'll go start cleaning dishes, throw them in the dishwasher, go back, mix it up, stir it up, clean off the table, go back, mix up the meat, stir it up, clean up the kids, multitasking.

So I find these moments throughout the day, throughout the week to prepare foods here and there.

It's not this bulk amount of time all at once to prep.

And I make food prep and meal prep part of my daily and weekly rhythms.

But I think that's,

One of the best ways you can set yourself up for success and take ownership of your diet in this next year is to meal and food prep.