Meal prep doesn't have to be about dividing one meal into six containers. You can make every meal different in the same amount of time. You just need to break free of recipes. Here's how to cook without recipes, whether its one meal or 15 meals at the same time.
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Pick out raw ingredients to fill the plates
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Wash, portion, and cut the ingredients into bite size pieces, placing them in individual containers
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Season the ingredients with some combination of THE STARTING 5: SALT, PEPPER, ONION, GARLIC, OLIVE OIL (OR FAT OF CHOICE). This will make it savory. Then for variety and the fun of it, add to each ingredients some seasoning or combination of seasoning from whatever you've got handy. Generally you want to add something SOUR, something SWEET, something SPICY. Or all of the above.
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Divide your seasoned ingredients into two camps: Cook in oven. Cook on stovetop. Cook everything in the oven at 400 degrees for 15 minutes, check and pull what's done, then send the items that need more time back in for another 10 minutes or so, however long you think. Cook everything on the stovetop using four pans and four burners at once. You just stand there and stir until things finish cooking. As they finish, transition to storage container, rinse the pan and repeat. Do this until all your stovetop items are done.
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Store the finished ingredients in the refrigerator in groups - proteins on one shelf, produce on another, grains on another. For meals you want to take out of the house, pack them up as complete meals and put them on their own shelf.
If you are new to cooking without recipes, I suggest trying this with just one meal. Then do two different meals at the same time, then three until you get up to the output you want.
I also suggest limiting your meal prep time to 2 hours and doing whatever you can in that time. Each time you will be able to do more and more as you get better.
Happy to answer questions.
Submitted April 30, 2015 at 04:12AM by KitchenKarateGuy http://ift.tt/1bW4l1T MealPrepSunday
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