/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>14296003
I agree with the general thrust of your post. Meal prepping seems to really appeal to people who lack the desire to cook, the creativity or curiosity to try something new, and the discipline to not pig out whenever possible.

However, I am currently a full time student, work ~30 hours per week, exercise ~2 hours per day, and like to have time for other interests. I cook food for M-F in large batches and portion it out, to save time each day. I just call it cooking, not "meal prepping."

Planning ahead is a sign of intelligence. What do you do in your spare time rail against your superiors?

Some people's brains aren't so enslaved by animalistic desires that they need a constant stimulus of YUMMY YUMMY TASTIE NEW FOODIE to feel satisfied.

>>14296003
Maybe it's the autistic way to say "Eat your leftovers." There are a surprising amount of people who just throw our or otherwise don't repurpose their leftovers. America doesn't really have hash or fried rice as a staple dish, but we doe have enormous portion sizes. Some people are probably too stupid and get lost in the mix.

>>14296003
>1-2 hours of your day every few days
That's what meal prepping is, faggot.
I cook for leftovers. Usually I aim for four nights of the same food for myself and my boyfriend because it's cheaper and easier to buy and cook in bulk. Some people do a week, some people do two days.

It's all the same, the only factor is your threshold for repetition, and I can tell from your post you have some aggressive debilitating ADHD.

there are studies where drinking vegetable juice only has a significant positive effect if you drink it within 30 minutes of it being pulverized

clearly cutting/cooking food releases it's vital spirit or some shit. I remember Furious Pete tried meal prepping and then he had to remove his balls

Meal prep = CANCER !

>>14296003
meal prepping is absolute cringe. an old housemate of mine, every sunday, would cook like 5x chicken curry + rice, 5x ground beef tomato sauce pasta and something else. No seasoning or variations on the sauces ever. complete boring.

For myself, usually when I cook I make 3-6 servings of something at once. I don't view it as prepping, rather it's easier to use up the ingredients in one go. Every few days I'll make something new. some go in the fridge, some in the freezer. often this "prepping" will only be for one meal per day, and my other meal will be something I made on the spot.

>>14296034
I try my best to not get annoyed by people's actions but I can't stand people that throw away food. My dad and stepmom are fucking terrible with this. They'll make something that could easily give them dinner for 4-5 nights, eat it the first night, MAYBE once in a great while eat it a second night, and then it sits in the fridge for a week until they throw it out. I don't even bother giving them anything good that I make because I know there's a 80% chance it will just get thrown away.

>>14296038
When I do my food prep I like to cook 2 or 3 meals at a time. Leaving out portions for two days, freezing the rest. That way there is some variety.

>>14296003
>buglike
does this guy look like a bug to you?

>>14296027
So you meal prep but feel superior about it for some reason?

>>14296039
i thought you were talking bullshit but when you brought up vital spirit i knew you were onto something

OP, I think there are people who would be literally obsessing about their food, a type of psych disorder of planning/regret if they don't have it done already in a bland, repetitive and boring way.
It's a type of discipline, and not much more than that. They come home from work whatever it is they do, training for a triathalon, working at the TV station on camera, nursing shift for 12hrs, exhausting shit like truckers or delivery, yard crew, student, celebrity. If they did not have food readymade, they would slip up more often, like eat both halves at once of a greasy sub! because nom nom nom deprivation cravings! I don't eat like that but I might if I had inflammation, a recent heart attack, a immuno disorder, allergies, etc.

>>14296027
>However, I am currently a full time student,
I helped my sibling get through those pre-exam weeks in medical school by visiting her apartment once every other week, cleaned up the place a bit:) Blitzed through the bathroom and kitchen with a cleanup, made the bed with fresh sheets, straightened up if it didn't disturb papers.
While there, I'd be unpacking and stuffing the freezer with my own dinner's leftovers in individual microwaveable containers I put away throughout my week of cooking. I also always left a quick divyed out portion of my bag of tangerines, bananas, apples, etc. I might prep some 1 or 2 prepared salads something quick for sandwiches like egg salad or chicken salad, to grab and go). I could take care of variety because she basically got leftovers, not prep.
She visited my house every other weekend, brought back some clean containers, and typically 3 big bags of laundry, using my ginormous washer and dryer and the time savings of not using her apt building machines, actually allowed for this time for a movie or TV marathon, a nap, mental break and the commute to/from my house.

>>14296175
>Dark, shiny carapace
>Able to lift many times his body weight
>High in protein, low in fat
>Scares women and children
Yes

>>14296175
It looks like it has a weird exoskeleton, so bug or maybe sea bug.

>>14296243
Based and buggybuilder pilled

>>14296003
I agree. There was a thread the other day where some anon couldn't understand wanting to live in a place with a bath tub because he couldn't possibly understand spending the time to take a bath with all his "big adult responsibilities". He was probably 22 and works at Kinkos, but those are the same kind of people who meal prep. It's always, "I just don't have the time to do nice things because I'm adulting!" They have all their priorities in the wrong places.

>>14296298
"I dont have time"
Sits on phone all day

>>14296003
whites are the actual bugmen. Whenever you take a look at any issue or position, you'll see hordes of whites falling in line with what their "leader" says. No actual consciousness.

>>14296032
>>14296033
NPC cope

>make tasty meal
>make some extra to freeze
>tasty food for when im sick or busy

full bugmen scare me, but i think "prep" within reason is a good idea

>>14296568
Making enough food to have some for lunch the next day, or freeze a couple portions to have another dinner a month later, is completely normal and not what anyone is talking about when they say "meal prep".

>>14296578
You'd be surprised. i know so many people that act like you even consider premaking/freezing anything makes you full bugman

>>14296243
Underrated high IQ take.

>>14296106
This is cringe as fuck. If you don't cook something fresh every day what even are you doing with your life? I swear people like you have no soul.

>>14296176
That is definitely not the take away you should have gotten from that post at all.

>>14296003
I didn't even know this was a thing until this thread.
I just make food and then eat it that day. The only thing I 'prep' is rice, dough, broth, and the like.

>>14296003
OK neet.

Larger ingredients, I'll prep when I get them. I am not having a whole cabbage for one meal; I'll chop it into it's normal cabbage-parts and then as I'm cooking my meal I'll grab an appropriate portion and add it.

Smaller things, like carrots, I'll cut as needed, because the whole thing is going in the pan.

Meal prep strikes me as odd, usually. I mean, fine, do it, yeah, cheaper than those meal prep delivery services, but... really?
(Crockpot meal prep makes sense to me. 1 afternoon of chopping and sorting into bags; dump bags into crockpot on the day. Shifts the time consuming work to when you have the time. I just don't see those little flat boxes as being enough time to shift one way or the other.)

>>14296243
supremest of keks

>>14296003
>t.non white
Go back to starving in Africa Mutumbo.

>>14296003
>meal prep
is anything more reddit than meal prep?
>I DONT HAVE 48 HOURS A WEEK TO COOK CLEAN AND DO DISHES