I never thought I would be this person yet here I am: I love meal-prep. I love it so much. I love planning out a week of meals, shopping for the ingredients, spending a Sunday cooking it all and dividing it into neat little containers.
I love eating the same thing for days in a row, knowing exactly what I’m getting. Heck, I love eating the same breakfast five days a week every single week and not getting sick of it. Meal-prep – I love it! Mastering the art of cooking for one is a project that’s taken me many years.
Credit: iStock Some of you may already be familiar with the joys of meal-prep. It’s the top thing on those annoying productivity life-hack listicles of what to do so you have your life together. It’s what all the smug TikTok girlies do in their “day in the life” videos.
It’s on every single recipe page these days. There are whole books about it. Meal-prep is so great that even though it’s talked about so much, even though everyone knows what it is, I think people need to talk about it more and do it more.
Getting super into meal-prep has changed my life in many ways and I’m not afraid to shout it from the rooftop. (Tell me you’re in your mid-30s without telling me you’re in your mid-30s.) Living alone and working mostly from home, as I do, cooking and eating well can be a challenge.
Mastering the art of cooking for one is a project that’s taken me many years: you have to be sure it’s not something you’ll get tired of eating and that it.
