Some people find meal preping initially but a hassle, but that is really not necessary at all! By prepare your meals, you will soon be tempted to eat, or eat other unhealthy things. How do you successfully apply Meal Prepping? We give you a number of tips to change you in a real prep boss in no time! Especially in the fitness industry, Meal preping is a well-known phenomenon. By exactly calculating what you can get to nutritional values, you can calculate a day how much you need.
Number of benefits of Meal Prepping:
- It saves time! When you take a few hours to prepare meals, you save a lot of time for the rest of the week.
- Healthier choices at moments of stress, boredom or if you don't feel like cooking.
- You can get a good bag of groceries in one go so that you reduce impulsive weekending purchases or even occurs.
- It also saves money. Discard food is no longer there.
- You don't have to wonder what you are going to eat after a long working day.
How do you proceed?
Start making a plan. Because good preparation is half the battle! Make a week menu and a shopping list. Then it's time to prepare meals. For example, choose to go cooking on Sunday. In the beginning it might be some getting used to, but if you are a few weeks further, you no longer know better.
It is important to have enough trays where you can store your food. If you have made your food you can store your trays for the first 3 days in the fridge and the other trays are in your freezer. You get it out the night before, for the next day.
For example, you can choose to make dishes based on your training objectives that provide the correct nutritional values. For ideas you can also look at our blogs about it Vitamins and minerals and protein.
You can go in any direction for your carbohydrates and vegetables. It just lies on what you like. To get to the daily protein need, a protein shake can of course also be taken after training.
Do you want to know which dishes are perfect to prepay? More about this in a subsequent article.
