Meal Ideas You Can Prepare In Advance

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We’ve already talked about meal planning and meal prep so all that is left for me to share are these different meal ideas that work perfectly with both meal planning and meal prepping.

Simple Meal prep plan

Put together different overnight oatmeal jars

For us most days we have cereal; a super simple breakfast that even the kids can make but if you do want to get some healthy breakfasts prepared, why not look at adding overnight oats to multiple jars, one for each day of the week.

In addition to the oats, you can add different toppings for each day. Some toppings to consider include cinnamon, sugar, slivered almonds or other nuts, dried fruit, berries or fresh fruit, raisins, and granola. Just don’t forget to label them!

Roast your vegetables beforehand

To get vegetables ready for lunches and dinners throughout the week, spend one day roasting all the vegetables at one time. Choose vegetables with about the same cooking time, roast them together, then place in containers and freeze them… simple!

Use a vegetable spiralizer instead of pasta

Although pasta, if kept in an airtight container, is already one of the simplest foods to prepare.. if you want you can also make healthy, low-carb meals by using a vegetable spiralizer.

This takes vegetables like zucchini and squash and creates pasta out of them. Spiralize your veggies on a Sunday, then save them for the week’s ‘pasta’ meals.

Bake all of your meat, then freeze portions for each meal

I do this regularly and decide what meat we want to use for multiple meals, then bake or cook it all at the same time. You can do this in the oven or your slow cooker. Meat like chicken breasts, fish filets, strips of steak and mince work great for this too!

Keep salad veggies and toppings in one container

For your salads, you can make it faster to put them together by having all of the greens and vegetables together in containers. Keep all your greens in one big container, and all the chopped veggies, cheese, and other toppings in another container.

So I hope that’s given you a few meal ideas you can prepare when you next meal plan. It’s an absolute game-changer for us meal planning and you should seriously give it ago.

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If you are looking for other ways to save on your grocery shopping then check out some of my previous posts below:

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How I’m Planning on Saving Money on My Food Shop
Some of my Favourite Supermarket Dupes
Meal Planning For Beginners