Meal prep ideas for busy people

Meal prep fails when it is ambitious. Keep it boring and it works.

Cook components, not meals. A tray of chicken, a pot of rice, a tub of roasted vegetables and a sauce recombine into five different dinners without tasting identical. Pick two proteins a week, not five. Variety is the enemy of actually doing it. Prep the thing you skip. For most people that is breakfast or the mid-afternoon gap — that is where the takeaway decision gets made. Freeze half. Week-three you will be grateful to week-one you.

An hour on a Sunday is usually the difference between a good training week and an average one.