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I’ve got no time, either-between school and work and schedulesand, even but also especially, my solo ME time to recharge my batteries, meal prep can sometimes feels like a huge, avoidable chore.  \nAnd yet, the payoff is immeasurable! Trust me on this one. I can spend anywhere between 20 minutes and 1 hour getting a few items prepared for the week, and what I wind up with is MORE TIME as the week goes on. It’s also a money saver, since the urge to order or pickup takeout is especially strong when my fridge is full only of plain ingredients and nothing has been prepped.  \nWhat’s a Meal Prep Structure, you ask?  \nA Meal Prep Structure is the detailed breakdown of how a particular meal prep session is going to go. It’s looking at the meals you’ve got planned for the week, then seeing what you can do ahead of time to make the preparation of those meals easier over the next 5 to 7 days.  \nA Meal Prep Structure can be detailed and work through an entire week’s worth of meals-or it can be basic, covering the necessities, what it takes for you to quickly get through the week’s cooking each night.  \nMost weeks, I know I can squeeze in at least 20 minutes to prep a few items once the groceries are in the kitchen. If I can fit in an hour-even better! But 20 minutes is usually enough to get the ball rolling on the week.  \nA great help is starting on your meal prep as soon as those groceries arrive in your kitchen. Whether you’ve bought them at the store yourself or ordered grocery delivery, taking the time toprep ingredients as you put the groceries away means things get done in a fell swoop.  \nHere’s how I create a Meal Prep Structure, Step-by-Step.  \nStep 1 : First, take a look at your meal plan. Below, I’m using a dummy one I put together for the purpose of showing you how I create the structure.  \nFor ease, in my family, we typically eat a rotation of the same things at breakfast, with more effort put into the meal on the weekends. Lunch is either leftovers or 2 or 3 quickly made items. Snacks rotate, too (although we’re not big on snacks) . With dinner, I change it up depending on what we have going on that week.  \nBreakfast: waffles with natural peanut butter, yogurt, granola and milk, hardboiled eggs  \nLunch: leftovers thrown on rice or salad, sandwiches  \nCreating a Meal Prep Structure  \nSnacks: pretzels and cheese, cottage cheese with fruit  \nMonday: Chicken Parmesan with pasta, salad on the side  \nTuesday: Crockpot pot roast with mashed potatoes and roasted green beans  \nWednesday: leftovers  \nThursday: Sweet and Sour Couscous Chicken with Sweet Potatoes and Red Onion, salad on the side  \nFriday: Homemade pizza and sweet potato fries  \nSaturday: out with friends  \nSunday: Steaks on the grill, corn on the cob  \nStep 2: Then, write a short list of all the things you could conceivably prep ahead of time. Don’t just write down what you think you can get done-write down everything that can possibly be prepped and stored in the fridge until cooking day.  \nStep 3: Re-write that list in the order of longest cooking/prep time to shortest. We want to maximize our time here, so multi-tasking is important. You want to be prepping vegetables while a sauce cooks, or something bakes, so that you’re filling your time as efficiently as possible.  \nStep 4: Figure out what you can conceivably prep in the next 20 minutes. Expand that into 40 minutes if you have an hour free- I find that I often will underestimate the time it takes me to do things in the kitchen, although you’d be amazed at what you can get done in just 40 minutes.  \nHere’s the Meal Prep List I made from my meal plan:  \n● Hardboiled eggs  \n● Marinara sauce, saving some of that to be used as pizza sauce later in the week  \n● Ready the pot roast  \n● Roasted Green beans  \n● Slice and slice sweet pot","cbCaiuJnDRbLALsC","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiuJnDRbLALsC","pdf",106269,"English","# Step-by-Step Meal Prep Structure\n## Step 1: Review the Meal Plan\n## Step 2: List Preppable Items\n## Step 3: Order by Prep Time\n## Step 4: Plan What Fits in 20–40 Minutes\n## Timed Example Cooking Flow","[{\"question\":\"What is a meal prep structure?\",\"answer\":\"A meal prep structure is a detailed plan for how a meal prep session will run. 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