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    If you’re following the 28 Day Weight Loss Problem you’ll know the way a lot we consider that meal prep is THE KEY to consuming properly and shedding pounds.

    As part of the 28 Day Weight Loss Problem we at The Wholesome Mummy typically discuss meal prep. The recipe hub is full of recipes that you could make forward to avoid wasting your self time within the kitchen.

    However in the event you’re simply beginning out, there are a couple of key errors it is best to AVOID making if you would like a stress-free expertise.

    1. Not having all of the components you want

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    After you have determined precisely what you’re making, it’s time to make an enormous previous purchasing listing and get EVERYTHING on it.

    There’s nothing worse than beginning your meal prep session solely to search out that you’re lacking one very important ingredient.

    On-line purchasing may be actually useful right here as you may examine off your listing as you go.

    Right here’s the way to use the purchasing listing function on the 28 Day Weight Loss Problem app!

    2. Making an excessive amount of of the identical factor

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    Meal prep is a good way to be ready to be able to simply resist the urge to order take away if you’re too drained to prepare dinner.

    However in the event you make tooooo a lot of a great factor, you may end up dreading opening the freezer for a similar previous standard meal. You may simply combine issues up somewhat even with utilizing related components.

    As an example you may freeze some Bolognese with pasta and a few with brown rice; or do half of your stir fries with pork and half with rooster moderately than all the identical meat.

    3. Not shopping for sufficient containers

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    Can’t stress this sufficient! You have to A LOT of containers! A budget and cheerful take away model containers are well-liked with different Wholesome Mummies and can be found at most supermarkets.

    Freeze in a manner that fits you and your loved ones – it is perhaps all single serves for you; otherwise you may wish to freeze household sized parts of meals that you may simply defrost, warmth and eat.

    You can even freeze snacks – however it’s finest to snap freeze them first by inserting gadgets resembling bliss balls or slices onto a lined chopping board and freezing individually. Then you may pop all of them in a ziplock bag and so they gained’t all clump collectively.

    4. Not having sufficient freezer house

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    Making an attempt to cram 40 containers right into a freezer that may solely match 20 is tremendous traumatic and may find yourself resulting in meals wastage.

    Have a freezer filter earlier than you begin, and within the lead as much as your first meal prep session attempt to dissipate something you will have in your freezer to make manner in your new wholesome creations.

    Positive that may imply some mish-mash dinners however that’s OK!

    Don’t neglect you should use meal prep time to arrange your meals for the week, that means you may simply preserve it within the fridge. Assume yoghurt with honey and LSA, chopped fruit, vegetable batons and wholesome dip. Something you can also make prematurely will assist you to follow your wholesome consuming plan.

    5. Not setting apart a great chunk of time to meal prep

    You may’t do an enormous prepare dinner up in an hour, so be sure you give your self ample time to buy, unpack, chop, prepare dinner, cool, place in containers, label and freeze.

    We love a Sunday afternoon prepare dinner up, however discover the time that fits you. If you will get the youngsters minded for the afternoon when you prepare dinner, all the higher.

    Why not group up with one other meal prep mum after which you may thoughts her youngsters when she needs to prepare dinner?

    6. Forgetting to label label label

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    You may suppose you’ll bear in mind what’s within the freezer however to keep away from ‘shock dinners’ it’s finest to label every part.

    Use the format ‘meal title, variety of parts, date of cooking’ so it’d appear like ‘Lamb and cheese meatballs, 1 serve, 23/1/18’

    If different folks is perhaps defrosting the meals you might additionally embody extra information resembling ‘defrost in a single day after which reheat on the range till piping scorching.’

    You may write on the plastic tubs with a black Sharpie, or place a strip of tape on them to jot down on. Put the labels on the SIDE in order that if you stack them you may see what you will have at a look.

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