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The DC Meal Prep Method

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The DC Meal Prep Method

Today I will introduce The DC Meal Prep Method, and how you can use it to save time, money, and produce healthy satiating meals for the week.

The DC Meal Prep Method spans 3-days: Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

I will break down the agenda for each of these days, and why this fool proof method will work for you. 🫵

So without further ado, lets dive right in!


Friday

I will make the assumption that you are leading a busy life, so I will ensure this method is both time-saving and trivial to insert into your routine.

Friday is regarded as the planning phase.

By this I mean you should start researching what to cook for this weekend.

For your research, I recommend you carry out the following:

🧑‍🍳Research General Cooking Tips

Save more time in the kitchen and make less mistakes; especially important for beginners.

🗒️Find Recipes

I personally recommend using Tasty.

Tasty provides both video and written recipes for a variety of dishes, along with ingredient lists, servings, macronutrients, and so much more.

Key Tip💡: Review your recipe and figure out the equipment you need beforehand, the last thing you want is a block of cheese and no grater to grate it.

📃Create Shopping Lists

An app that makes this easy is Listonic.

Simply copy ingredients for a Tasty recipe into a Listonic shopping list as follows:

Ingredients from tasty.co
Ingredients from tasty.co
Listonic Shopping List
Listonic Shopping List

A key thing to note is I did not copy the ingredients exactly. In fact, I omitted quite a few items to simplify my shopping list.

Don't be scared to omit a few items initially, this will make the recipe more manageable and hence reduce chance of failure.

Saturday

Saturday will be the first stage of the action phase.

On this day, all you have to do is shop at your favorite grocery store.

I go to ALDI because it’s cheap, sells high quality food, and it is close to me.

Be sure to choose a store that is convenient to reduce travel time and maintain the freshness of your groceries; this is particularly important to maximize the the longevity of your meals.

While you are at it, do not forget to buy additional food and snacks for the week ahead.

I recommend some canned goods such as beans, fish, along with some fruits to satisfy any sugar cravings.

I also recommend bread, peanut butter, and yoghurt, all of which are cheap complementary sources of protein.

Sunday

Today you will now take everything you learnt, collect all your ingredients, and concoct a meal prep to die for.

Also make sure you have the necessary cookware by reviewing your recipe in advance.

Lastly, make sure your recipe is readily available, preferably by setting a reminder with a link to your recipe.

Now it's time to start cooking! 👨‍🍳 Your meals will not cook themselves!

Key Tip💡: Evaluate how your meal prep turned out by bullet pointing anything that went wrong, then refer back to these next week.

Conclusion

I hope the DC method is clear and I hope I have imbued you with the tools needed to perform this method for yourself and produce great results.

This method works very well for me, and I believe it's my duty to proclaim this information for everyone to freely use.

Thank you for reading, and stay tuned for more articles!