Heard a guy at the hardware store say everyone should meal prep on Sundays. I think he's wrong.

I was grabbing some paint samples last Saturday and overheard this guy telling his friend that Sunday meal prep is the only way to eat healthy and save time. In my experience, that just leads to a fridge full of sad, wilted containers by Wednesday. I tried the full Sunday prep thing for about 6 weeks last year and ended up throwing away almost $40 worth of food one week because I just didn't feel like eating the same chicken and rice on a Tuesday night. What works better for me is spending 15 minutes each morning just washing and chopping whatever I'm cooking that day. It's way less pressure and I actually eat what I make. Has anyone else found that the big prep plan just doesn't stick for them?

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emmag221mo ago

Yeah the wasted food thing is the worst part. It's like you're paying for the convenience of feeling bad about yourself later. A friend of mine just preps ingredients instead of full meals and swears by it, like chopping onions and marinating meat but not cooking it until the day she eats it.

theac631mo ago

Doesn't prepping ingredients still take the same amount of time later though?

mary_martin221mo ago

emmag22 saying "paying for the convenience of feeling bad about yourself later" is spot on. But honestly, I gotta question whether this meal prep thing is really that serious. Like, are we acting like throwing out a few containers of limp broccoli is some kind of moral failure? I've done the whole Sunday blitz and ended up ordering pizza on a Tuesday because I just couldn't face another cold quinoa bowl. The ingredient prep idea sounds decent, but even that feels like a chore when you're just trying to have a lazy day. Maybe we should just admit that cooking every day works fine for some of us and move on.