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If you live in a reasonably large city you may find local meal-prepping companies. Those meals would likely be a lot healthier than stuff you find in the frozen meal section.
As another simple option, you could buy rotisserie chickens (or other pre-cooked protein sources) and eat them with salad kids or frozen vegetable steamer bags. Drain a can of beans and throw that into your veggie side dish if you want more fiber and nutrients. That’s basically no prep.
Single dad of 2 student athletes here - we meal prep maybe one day every 2 weeks.
- Buy reusable bento boxes on Amazon or somewhere like that
Instead of cooking for 1-3 of us, I cook for 8-9 each meal.
Fire up the grill, the pressure cooker, the crock pot, and the oven and get ready for chaos.
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In about 3 hours time I can crank out 35-50 individual meals that are then ready to go right into the freezer, and macros are all accounted for
There are all kinds of options for this. It can get a little pricey, but they are out there. Clean Eatz is one based here in the US, I believe they ship or you can pick them up pre-made in their stores, they also offer meals to order there like a traditional restaurant.
There are lots of sheet pan recipes that are super easy especially if you buy pre cut vegetables. I’m not a big fan of cooking either but I do like clean eating. I find roasted anything tastes amazing.
If you don’t care much about enjoying the food and need something very quick just to take care of your nutrition, meal replacements could be handy.
There are quite a few brands like Huel and Jake Food. Not sure if I would trust them enough to base my whole diet on them but it’s very handy to have them available when you need a quick and easy meal.
Many ready meals tend to have excessive amounts of salt so I would pay some attention to that if you live on them.