/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.19607852]

What's the verdict on meal prep? Convenient time saver or just another fad? Something else?

[Anonymous No.19607859]

>>19607852
only mentally ill faggots think that eating the same shit all week that gets worse each day is a good idea

[Anonymous No.19607867]

Great thread.

[Anonymous No.19607880]

>>19607852
>eating left overs every day
lmao

[Anonymous No.19607881]

>>19607859
if you dont want to eat the same meal multiple times a week you just suck at cooking

[Anonymous No.19607898]

>>19607852
Too many people meal prep a full week of bland food that’s the exact same. If you put a little effort in, though, it can pretty easily be varied quite a bit—especially if you make new meals, condiments, sides, etc… throughout the week to add.

[Anonymous No.19607899]

>>19607881
>t. wagecuck incel

[Anonymous No.19607908]

>>19607852
I'm waiting for food poisoning Fridays to catch on with people that do this

[Anonymous No.19607915]

>is making food in advance a fad
what the fuck is wrong with you

[Anonymous No.19607922]

>>19607899
>Nooo you have to spend 2 hours everyday cooking and once you have had a meal it has to be 3 months before you can make it again!

[Anonymous No.19607927]

>2 hours to cook

[Anonymous No.19607932]

>>19607852
You should mealprep 3 days at a time and not for the entire week. Also, you should only really bother prep your proteins and sauces. Rice/quinoa/beans/etc are set it and forget it easy to cook and you can even throw beans in a slow cooker before work. The only reason to prep rice ahead of time is if you're going to let it dry out in the fridge to do a quick fried rice with each portion.

[Anonymous No.19607936]

Great thread.
Really, really great thread.

[Anonymous No.19607937]

>>19607936
great reply.
Really, really great reply.

[Anonymous No.19607941]

I meal prep for mon-fri and cook fresh/ eat out on sat-sun. my food never goes bad or even loses quality by friday, and i vary the kind of stuff i make each week so it doesn't get boring. picrel, red curry rice with garlic pork chops.

i wouldn't have time to make quality/healthy/tasty food if i had to cook every single night.

[Anonymous No.19607957]

I usually make it and forget about it until it gets bad. I prefer just having prepped meat I can just throw into anything I want.

[Anonymous No.19608035]

>>19607941
>or even loses quality by friday
That's because your cuckprep meals suck. They started bad and by the end of the week they still suck, so you don't notice a drop in quality. Because there never was quality to begin with
Meal prepping is for zogpilled peabrains who unironically watch the office

[Anonymous No.19608040]

>>19608035
Whoa. Now THIS is epic.

[Anonymous No.19608088]

>>19607915
Making food in advance for an entire week at a time is definitely a fad

[Anonymous No.19608097]

>>19608040
You brainless npcs never have anything of worth to say, it's astounding, always the same demoralizing, half-ironic "quips" to substitute genuine communication

[Anonymous No.19608118]

>>19608088
arrive home, throw the meal in the microwave, eat like a king, barely any dishes to clean go play video games as opposed to what? cook for at least an hour, miserable and tired, have to clean a bunch of shit, too spent to do anything, go to bed depressed. wow that sure sounds like fun. I fucking love meal prepping and nothing you can say could possibly change my mind.

[Anonymous No.19608133]

>over an hour
>cleaning hard
>omg so exhausted
You don't " come home from work"

[Anonymous No.19608141]

>>19608118
At that point just cut out the middleman anr start buying from the frozen aisle section, it's the same end result, all this extra shit is just performative nonsense meant to make you think you're getting something out of it

[Anonymous No.19608281]

>>19608097
You sir, are a gentlemen and a scholar

[Anonymous No.19608319]

>>19608281
STFU reddit tranny

[Anonymous No.19608331]

>>19608319
>Tranny
>Reddit
>Cuck
>Zog
>NPC
I got bingo

[Anonymous No.19608547]

Normies don't know how to plan around leftovers. If I make four portions of something at dinner, then I've got lunch and dinner sorted for the next day and lunch sorted for the day after that. Obviously you have to plan around things that will still be good as leftovers, but that's fine for me.

[Anonymous No.19608576]

>>19608547
meal prepping for me is basically just that, I cook for an army during the week-end and I have leftovers all week. People imagine it take so much more time than just cooking for one or two but it's just not the case.

[Anonymous No.19608698]

>>19608035
>>19608097
>>19608319
This Anon appears to have legitimately been trolled so hard by what seems to be a person who was only using irony and sarcasm not to pretend to have been from reddit, but rather to imply that the person they are replying to think that they are hot shit when in fact they are actually not... if anything they could have possibly been implying that you could be reddit in such a way that you were unable to grasp their nuance, because maybe they pretended to be Reddit to imply that you are Reddit, but you may have not actually caught on to that.

[Anonymous No.19608777]

>>19607908
It won't because food doesn't spoil that fast retard. Try using a fridge next time

[Anonymous No.19608785]

>>19608141
That's retarded when you can easily choose what to eat for the week rather than be limited to whatever Marie Callender has for you this week. Also better nutrition without being too costly

[Anonymous No.19608797]

Making a big pot/dish of something that cooks better/easier in a large batch and having it for 4 days is one thing. Pan frying 4 chicken breasts and then cutting it up into 7 meals is something entirely different. What's the worst thing that's going to happen if you get home one day and don't feel like cooking? You eat a peanut butter sandwich and some ramen noodles? Better than subsisting off of bland semi-shelf-stable mush which lost its texture 4 days ago.

[Anonymous No.19608983]

>>19608797
i lift unlike you weak ass little bitch so i need real food to fuel me rather than goyslop sandwiches. you're pathetic

[Anonymous No.19609021]

>>19607908
I freeze everything because I'm extremely paranoid about food poisoning
>but it gets soggy
don't care

[Anonymous No.19609201]

>>19607852
I'd probably get drunk and eat 2 of them in one day

[Anonymous No.19609278]

>>19607957
Looks like you were meal prepping Xanax from the thumbnail

[Anonymous No.19609319]

>>19608983
>i lift unlike you weak ass little bitch so i need real food to fuel me rather than goyslop sandwiches. you're pathetic
Please list your typical meals for the week.
If a protein shake is listed even once, we're going to call you out for eating goyslop.

[Anonymous No.19609329]

>>19608141
>thinking frozen meals is the same as home cooking
kek
>do less work
>performative nonsense
second kek

[Anonymous No.19609337]

Apparently anons have never heard of freezer. Poors.

[Anonymous No.19609345]

>>19607859
fpbp

[Anonymous No.19609351]

>>19609337
Is this norf physique achievable natty?

[Anonymous No.19609353]

>>19607859
>only mentally ill faggots think that eating the same shit all week that gets worse each day is a good idea
I meal prep sandwiches for work, but I have four different meats and four different cheeses so I don't get bored.

[Anonymous No.19609364]

>>19609351
Body by America.

[Anonymous No.19609799]

>>19607852
>saving leftovers
>just another fad

[Anonymous No.19609806]

>>19607859
this

[Anonymous No.19609816]

>>19607852
leftovers and freezing the time-consuming parts of meals are both great. prepping a week of food is stupid, though. at most you want to prep some vegetables a few days ahead and defrost some spag bol, otherwise you're getting stale food.

"meal prep" as in preparing a week of meals is for plebs who can't handle cooking on tuesday or wednesday night.

[Anonymous No.19609819]

>>19609799
Eating leftovers from the night before is one thing, INTENTIONALLY making leftovers for the entire week eating the same damn thing everyday is insanity.

[Anonymous No.19609895]

>>19607852
As if our daily lives aren't soul crushing enough
Meal prep is gay, eating leftovers is based
Lemme guess, chicken breast, rice, and broccoli that's been refrigerated for 4 days? Lmaoing at ur life kid

[Anonymous No.19609909]

>>19609819
its cheaper and takes the same amount of time to make a meal with 4 portions than a meal with 1
lemme guess, you're a cityfag who goes to the store more often than once a month as well?

[Anonymous No.19609923]

>>19609909
This is just a guess, but he probably doesn't enjoy soggy and wilted food. Whipping up something in a skillet only takes a few minutes. Meal prep is for people who like to pretend that they're too busy. And before you claim that you yourself are too busy, let me point out that you're exploring and posting on 4channel right now.

[Anonymous No.19610077]

>>19607852
>Not making 28 lunches in two hours
Ngmi

[Anonymous No.19610079]

OH WOW CHICKEN, WHITE RICE, AND BELL PEPPERS YUM YUM SO GOOD THIS IS WHAT LIFE IS ALL ABOUT

[Anonymous No.19610087]

>>19610077
dystopian.

[Anonymous No.19610118]

OP is just retard tier meal prep. The real deal is homemade pickles/preserved food as a part of the real meal, maybe some frozen pierogi/pasta. You can use leftover potaotes or rice to turn them into a meal the next day. You can make a pancake batter a night before, or marinate the meat. That's the real meal prep, and it helps.

[Anonymous No.19610126]

>>19607852
I used to save portions of bigger meals and have it at work. By the third day in a row of the same meal I would get the shits with it. For solo cooking, I do maximum two portions now (so, one spare meal).

[Anonymous No.19610137]

>>19607852
its easier to make like 3 salads at once than waste the time to make it 3 seperate times over 3 days. im not sure why that has to be called its own thing though.

[Anonymous No.19610141]

>>19607852
is this how wagies cope?

[Anonymous No.19610392]

>>19610079
Looks totally unseasonably too, yum yum.
Sometimes if I make a big batch of pasta I'll store some in old lunch meat containers for weekday lunches but by about day 3 I'm sick of them. Taking 5 minutes to make a sandwich and give a few scraps of meat to my dogs during the process is much more enjoyable.

[Anonymous No.19610421]

>>19610141
Poor wagies maybe. Most wagies without a family I know from back before wfh would just get out food 3/5 days and eat random garbage on the other two.

[Anonymous No.19611136]

>>19607852
I want it to work but it's always dependent on microwaving it back up, which ruins most food. Last time I made chicken and rice, then the leftovers, the chicken turned from a delicious taste and texture to a shadow of its former self. The chicken turned gross and stringy since all moisture gets microwaved out. Air fryer or bust.

[Anonymous No.19611157]

>>19609319
overnight oats for breakfast
dried chickpeas or jerky as a snack
egg/turkey/chicken wrap for lunch (homemade)
whatever meal prep i've made for the week for dinner (lean protein + green veggie + carb)
greek yogurt with fruit for dessert

kill yourself

[Anonymous No.19611183]

>"eat the same healthy meal every day? lmao fucking faggots"
>eats at mcdonalds 5 days out of the week
i love how much meal prep threads make the hamplanets seethe

[Anonymous No.19611195]

>>19607859
Curry gets better

[Anonymous No.19611312]

>>19611183
What's the point of meal prep when you're unemployed?

[Anonymous No.19611339]

This is how I know we've been conquered by Reddit troons.

You don't need to eat only one prepped food all week. You don't need to ration them out like a military regimen.

What you do is you prep 2-3 different meals as needed when you care to. I have stew cooking in the crock pot and it gets eaten at various points when I want to eat it. I bake biscuits as needed. I cook quinoa and chicken in the rice cooker when needed.

Then you have 2 or 3 dishes all week and can have variety whenever you want it.

[Anonymous No.19611550]

>>19608141
Holy shit, you're a fucking retard.

[Anonymous No.19611552]

>>19609819
You're making individual meals though. How are they left overs? Is it because they went into the fridge? That's a pretty big reach and makes everything else in the fridge a left over.

[Anonymous No.19611558]

>>19607859
>yfw the pasta is better the next day when it had time to absorb the sauce

[Anonymous No.19611565]

>>19611136
You are aware that you can adjust the power of a microwave? Put a drop or two of water in your container and turn it down to 60% power. It'll gently steam it to temp.

[Anonymous No.19611609]

stop eating how I don't eat

[Anonymous No.19611775]

>>19611558
>time to absorb the sauce
only a barilla retard would write something retarded like this because he doesn't know what starchy pasta water from decent pasta does lol

[Anonymous No.19612757]

>>19611550
How is it wrong? By the end of the week that's basically what you've turned your food into, just frozen microwave slop devoid of any taste

[Anonymous No.19612944]

>>19607859
This. I want to like meal prep, I've even tried it. But I just cannot bring myself to eat the same slop for more than two days in a row.

[Anonymous No.19612975]

>>19607852
>oh boy, 5 day old chicken
meal prep is fine if you freeze some so you can rotate shit out and get actual variety imo, you're eating for efficiency anyways

[Anonymous No.19612976]

>>19607941
chops look dry dawg

[Anonymous No.19613078]

Lately i been keeping a fridge section of meat cooked really plain (poached chicken, pork loin with salt and pepper etc) and a whole big fridge shelf of pickles and other condiments. Honestly wouldnt recommend.

[Anonymous No.19613101]

>>19609923
>soggy and wilted food
skill issue
>hurr durr u using 4chan right now
thats implying i'm not multitasking
most people post on 4chan from their phone while working or taking a shit
t.taking a shit at work

[Anonymous No.19614532]

>>19611552
Retard

[Anonymous No.19614549]

>>19607852
Pretty convenient but it also depends on how much you're willing to accomodate it.

>>19607859
You can meal prep multiple things concurrently or sequentially to ensure a variety of foods throughout the week. It frontloads food prep instead of distributing it evenly between days. This is not required to also unify the meals under one dish.