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Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Meal Prepping...

When it comes to meal prepping I am still a bot of a newbie. I try to create well rounded meals, but focused mostly on the protein & veggies.

But, sometimes I feel like I take it too seriously?

When I meal prep, I make each bowl separately!!!

For example:
When I did my shrimp fried rice...

I measured everything out:
Counted my 23 shrimp (times 4, set them all aside in piles)
1/2C of pepper/onion mix (set aside in 4 medium bowls)
1/2 jalepeño (diced & separated into 4 small bowls)
Boiled my rice, put 1/2C in each bowl

Then, came cooking/combining:
I put 1tbsp of butter in the pan, sauteed my peppers/onions/jalepeños, then put that mixture into the medium bowls. (Did each set alone.. so, four times.)

Then, I took two eggs & cracked them into my pan, half cooked them. Slid them to one side of the pan, added the measured rice, the shrimp, & one bowl of sauteed peppers/onions, and pour my soy sauce over the rice/veg/shrimp side.

Then, I mixed it all together in the pan, and pour it all into the prep bowl. (Again, did that four times. Haha.)


Now, today, I made my spaghetti bowls..
I put the 1/2C of peppers/onions in a medium bowl (x4)

Put the diced mushrooms & jalepeños in a large bowl (x4)

I boiled my pasta servings in two pots! 2oz of pasta in each pot.. then, put each serving into a prep bowl. (The other 2 servings were birds eye, I microwaved the bag then separated into prep bowls.)

Cooked all of the chicken, then separated it into the prep bowls with the pasta.

Sauteed the peppers/mushrooms/onions by serving, added them to the prep bowls.

Then, once I got to the 4th set, I took the bowl with just chicken & pasta, added it to my pan, added the spaghetti sauce & stirred it all together. Then, repeated that 3 more times, with the rest of the bowls.

Pictured is my sink JUST from 4 bowls of spaghetti! 

Am I being too meticulous?

If I sautee all of the veggies, cook the chicken & the pasta, mix it all in one pot and add the sauce, THEN separate... Is it really gonna matter of it's not all, exactly the same amounts of each ingredient?

OR

Is this just a normal thing? Lmfao.
Maybe it just comes with the territory..
You tell me?
How do YOU meal prep?!
Are you as careful as me, or do you throw caution to the wind?