How the fuck do I meal prep

[Anonymous No.17116475]

I want to stop eating like dogshit and start cooking ahead of time so I can have food ready to go when I get home instead of needing to cook or order out every day. But I have no idea what the fuck kind of meals I'm supposed to prepping.
I get the basic gist of Protein, Carb, Veg. I've been doing meals of chicken breast, box-mix rice and broccoli for a couple weeks now, but it's getting boring and I want to find something else. Google just gives me retarded Facebook shit that sounds way too complicated and not even that good. I don't have the level of kitchen experience to just wing it buying shit at the store and seeing what I can make.
What do you meal prep that's straightforward, easy to cook, and tasty. I'll even settle for two of the three.

[Anonymous No.17116483]

>>17116475
>How the fuck do I meal prep
you use a knife, a cutting board, and melt the butter before adding the veggies to the pan.

[Anonymous No.17117326]

>>17116475
I keep variety by having lots of different spicy sauces in flight at any given time. Like, two or three.
Kabob footballs with puréed onions in them and an egg for a binder reheat well, and you can bake up four pounds of raw ground beef on two half-sheet trays during the weekend.

[Anonymous No.17117393]

>>17116475
Its fucking hella easy you nonce. Say you work for 5 days a week. Make a whole pot of rice or noodles that would last the week. Portion it out. Fry up vegetable(brocolli, onion, mushroom, etc.) Portion it out. Fry up your meat(pork, shikkun,stayk.)
Its just all about portions and packaging really. So easy a kid could do it.

[Anonymous No.17117401]

Hehe he. Woofles.

[Anonymous No.17117470]

just think for a second, make a lot of food that holds well with time, that is all. It's better to warm it up on the pan, microwave makes it disgusting sometimes

[Anonymous No.17117497]

>>17116475
Use other vegetables then?
Asparagus, broccoli, cauliflower, beets etc..
Use sauces.
Good bases can be peanut butter, tahini, oyster sauce/mushroom sauce, tomato paste and tomatoes

[Anonymous No.17117502]

>>17117401
Please go back.

[Anonymous No.17117507]

>>17117502
Hehehhehehehe woofles

[Anonymous No.17117539]

mealprep is only worth it if you're a lazy piece of shit that cant into cooking

[Anonymous No.17117635]

>>17116475
>cook a recipe as per normal
>but double the amount of ingredients
>box up and freeze all the leftover portions
wow
so fucking hard

[Anonymous No.17117705]

>>17116475
bitch just cook
howfucking hard is it to do a little chicken and some fucking noodles?
fucking ramen
learn to pizza
knock out a burger
make a soup

[Anonymous No.17117855]

>>17116475
Cook easy things like lasagne and shit that yields many portions and still taste good when reheated.

[Anonymous No.17117960]

A good stew can be more or less a complete meal by itself and you can make big batches. It'll get better the first few days, too-- the flavors will develop and deepen.

[Anonymous No.17118265]

>>17117635
It's not following the recipe that's hard, its finding the recipes themselves.
Even if I were cooking everyday, I want something that doesn't require 20+ ingredients and costs $10 a meal. Everywhere I look online needs a load of special bullshit. I just want some ideas for simple food I can cook ahead then throw in the microwave after coming off a 12-hour shift

[Anonymous No.17118295]

I like cook a protein in some sauce and pair it with jasmine rice and some vegetable side. I portion it out in my Ikea glass food containers (half the protein and sauce and half rice)

[Anonymous No.17118302]

>prep fags
cringe

[Anonymous No.17119790]

>>17116475
two ~16qt pressure cooker beef stews takes me ~2 days to cut the vegetables and then cooke. don't have to cook for ~2 weeks after that. if i can bulk marinate some chicken and prep that after week 1, i'll be good for close to a month. i've only done the oatmeal once (4 days worth in two pots) but i hope to try it again very soon

[Anonymous No.17119828]

the best thing about the beef stews is that for ~$50 you hvae two high quality meals per day of super dick hardening noctural arginine loaded celery and meat. save a lot of $$$ that way

[Anonymous No.17119839]

>>17117326
What language are you speaking

[Anonymous No.17119855]

>>17118265
Fuck online, it’s all bots and losers throwing shit up to get ad revenue. Go to a used book store and get a real cookbook, preferably from before 2004.

[Anonymous No.17119871]

>>17116475
get big tortilla wraps and stuff them with any filling u can think of and make plenty of them

[Anonymous No.17119902]

>>17118265
Online recipes tend to be meme-tier as you say. If you're new, it's best to learn how to cook ingredients first in simple ways, like roasting, pan-frying, steaming, boiling. You can make a lot of easy meals with just meat+carb+veg with some seasonings. The advantage of learning simple first is you learn techniques and you can clean out your inventory easily, so if you have a bunch of broccoli left over you can just roast it up as a side rather than fussing over finding "recipes" to use it.
After that look for simple recipes you like, especially ones that already use ingredients you're used to, as you're confident you should be able to adapt to your tastes or advoid the 20-ingredient bullshit. Every time you find a good one you can add it to your rotation which is a long-term win, soon enough cooking anything in your rotation is brainless and not a chore anymore.

Fuck meal prep as in "make a bunch of precooked meals and freeze them", that's just depressing, but DO prep parts of meals when you can so you can throw stuff together fast. At least one fresh component per meal helps things be less mind-numbing.

[Anonymous No.17120087]

>>17119902
What do you recommend for working on technique and such? Youtube, books, an actual class?
I'm thinking about picking up pic related

[Anonymous No.17120178]

>>17120087
Not to be like those guys on /ic/ who say "just draw", but just cook stuff. Like, for chicken, try cooking a couple different ways: bone-in thighs roasted on a rack in the oven, pan-fried chicken breast, diced thighs browned and then braised in a sauce. Try steaming and then roasting broccoli. Basic stuff like that. Play with different spices. Learn roughly how long things take to cook, what temp you want the pan to be at and what it feels like when you wave your hand over it. Get comfortable with the process, when you can take a break to clean stuff and when you can't.
You can look at youtube for examples I guess but I never found that helped very much, I guess it's nice at the very start when you just want to see what things look like, but it can be misleading. I recommend an IR and instant read thermometer, the first helps you read temp on your pan and the second in your meat, both help build intuition, eventually they'll be optional but it's nice to know what's going on at first.

The nice thing about this approach is it's relatively low risk, I mean, you'll have better and worse results but it's hard to get something inedible unless you burn it really bad.

[Anonymous No.17120197]

>>17116475
>But I have no idea what the fuck kind of meals I'm supposed to prepping.

Use meat
Use potato
Apply heat

[Anonymous No.17120209]

>>17119902
i don't know what interdimensional galaxy you're cooking on, but on planet earth it takes more than 10 mins to cook, and saving cooking time is nothing compared to the time it takes to do dishes. ramsey pls regale us with your tales

[Anonymous No.17120244]

>>17120209
Where did the post you're quoting mention "10 minutes" or time to wash dishes? Are you responding to the voices in your head? Take your meds

[Anonymous No.17120315]

>>17120244
your mommas ass sphincter says what?