Meal prep

[tiger5k]

After over 5 years of doing these challenges I’ve never mastered the nutrition prep. I’ll crush the workout though 💪I buy all the ingredients and give up before getting started a lot of the time because it feels so overwhelming. I’ve got breakfast prep down and then I usually just aim to hit macros by the end of the day with smoothies, bars, simple egg white or tofu wraps. I am vegetarian so I waver between both meal plans. I thought I would start here before leaning on the Facebook page. I was hoping someone could guide me on the best sequence to prep meals for all day for the week… or how to prep for the prep better? Maybe that’s the problem 🤣 Yes, I’ve watched Nicole’s videos.

[Naomi]

tiger5k wrote:

After over 5 years of doing these challenges I’ve never mastered the nutrition prep. I’ll crush the workout though 💪I buy all the ingredients and give up before getting started a lot of the time because it feels so overwhelming. I’ve got breakfast prep down and then I usually just aim to hit macros by the end of the day with smoothies, bars, simple egg white or tofu wraps. I am vegetarian so I waver between both meal plans. I thought I would start here before leaning on the Facebook page. I was hoping someone could guide me on the best sequence to prep meals for all day for the week… or how to prep for the prep better? Maybe that’s the problem 🤣 Yes, I’ve watched Nicole’s videos.

I would keep everything as simple as possible and follow these steps:
1. choose the simplest, most basic meals (not complicated, time-consuming recipes, at least for right now to stat with).
2. calculate all of the foods you need to buy from the grocery store you will need for the meals in the meal plan – all the very basic ones (veg proteins, rice, potatoes, frozen veggies, etc., super simple) – and write out your grocery list.
3. go to the grocery store with your list and only buy the foods on your list for meal prep for the week ahead.
4. cook all of your starchy carbs, cook all of your proteins, cool all of your veggies and other foods
5. portion them out via food scale in grams based on the meals and portion sizes in your meal plan and put them in storage containers

You are done! I would recommend separating the above steps out by about 3 days, for example:
Friday: steps 1 & 2
Saturday: step 3
Sunday: step 4 & 5

I hope this helps! 🙂 As you get the hang of the simple foods and feel like you have it down pat (may take longer than you realize, might take a few challenges of keeping everything basic),

Also, the meal plans are not interchangeable between plant-based and regular meal plans. In other words, you should eat all your meals for the day from either one of the meal plans, but not having meal 1 from the non plant-based and meal 2 from plant-based.

[Stephanie Beadle]

I’m wondering if we can food prep like the meal prep video. In the video meats, veg I’d, & carbs are all cooked in bulk then separated as needed. How do we do that and still get the proper portion of fat from the olive oil? Do we have to prep every meal separately for best results or is the difference not enough to worry about?

[Naomi]

Stephanie Beadle wrote:

I’m wondering if we can food prep like the meal prep video. In the video meats, veg I’d, & carbs are all cooked in bulk then separated as needed. How do we do that and still get the proper portion of fat from the olive oil? Do we have to prep every meal separately for best results or is the difference not enough to worry about?

I would recommend prepping your proteins and carbs in bulk, then adding your fats as you portion everything out according to your meals. You can cook in bulk, but then weigh and measure out your portion sizes specific to your meals, does that make sense? You definitely need to weigh and measure out everything separate;ly for best results but you don’t need to cook every individual meal “to order,” and can prep most foods ahead of time 🙂

[tiger5k]

Thank you Naomi! That’s helpful.

[Stephanie Beadle]

I was using the oil/fat to cook the meat to prevent sticking. I will try without. Thank you Naomi!

[tiger5k]

Hi again,

I thought in the past Nicole has said we can use meals from both vegan regular as long as we are using the entire meal and not making changes from the different exchange lists. Why would we not be able to use both lists this way if the meal macros are the same?

Thanks

[Maureen]

tiger5k wrote:

Hi again,

I thought in the past Nicole has said we can use meals from both vegan regular as long as we are using the entire meal and not making changes from the different exchange lists. Why would we not be able to use both lists this way if the meal macros are the same?

Thanks

You can choose vegan or regular and mix and match
Plans are split up into three different ranges for women and two for men, based
on height and weight. Macros (protein, carbs, fat) are the same for each range in
the Regular and Vegan meal plans, so you can mix and match from those if you
choose for added variety without skipping a beat. page 52 in ebook

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