The Fit Foodie Meal Prep Plan: Easy Steps to Fill Your Fridge for the Week
By Sally O'Neil
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The fuel you put in your body is the first step towards achieving the healthy lifestyle you’ve been craving. Cooking at home, or better yet, healthy meal prepping, not only saves time but is a key factor to overall wellness.
With The Fit Foodie Meal Prep Plan, you will master the three steps to successfully fill your fridge with flavorful options for every meal of the day. Whether you are on the go or are looking for a quick meal in, these steps take the stress of cooking out of your day.
The three steps include:
–Step 1 is basic prep mastery—think quick baked salmon, herby roast chicken, spiralized veggie noodles, or an assortment of basic dressings.
–Step 2 shows you how to pack your freezer and pantry with batch-cooked healthy staples, such as fruit crumble, a simple curry base, and sweet potato muffins.
–Step 3 is where it all comes together. Assemble utterly decadent and completely healthy meals, such as chia pudding with berries, salted cinnamon granola, boiled eggs with paleo bread, and more!
This essential guide is designed to help you make the most of your days so you can spend less time in the kitchen cooking while still staying on track with your health goals!
Sally O'Neil
Sally O’Neil, known as The Fit Foodie (@TheFitFoodieBlog), moved to Sydney’s Bondi from the UK nine years ago, overhauled her eating habits to follow this way of prepping and eating, and lost over thirty pounds in the process. She is now a recipe developer, food stylist, and international food photographer who is the juggernaut behind The Fit Foodie Blog, an online hub for all things healthy, fit, and delicious.
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The Fit Foodie Meal Prep Plan by Sally O’Neil, Tiller PressDEDICATION
This book is for you.
You, who have picked this up and given me a chance to change the way you work in the kitchen. You, with real-life commitments, a social life, a family, and probably zero time to really be reading this (did you feed the dog?). I’m so happy you’re here, prioritizing something just for you.
Like you, I’m juggling a million things. Businesses, a degree, my mental health, working out, traveling, yada yada yada. There’ve been moments when I’ve mastered it all, and moments when I’ve royally—and publicly—failed.
I am so incredibly grateful to every subscriber, follower, reader, and friend who has supported me on this journey. You’ve read my many ramblings (including this one), and I dig that I can offer something back to you in the following pages. Even if it really is just an enthusiastic smile and a delicious quiche.
Thank you for helping me create a career beyond my wildest dreams.
Sally
@thefitfoodieblog
DISCLAIMER: The content presented in this book is meant for inspiration and informational purposes only. The purchaser of this book understands that the author is not a medical professional, and the information contained within this book is not intended to replace medical advice or to be relied upon to treat, cure, or prevent any disease, illness, or medical condition.
MEAL PREP 101
Let’s Make This Simple
Even with a lovely home office, I’m writing this at a slightly sticky table in my local library, with a group of noisy children in the background. Why? Because I get distracted by stuff—life stuff that I’m sure you deal with too: laundry, phone calls, reorganizing the spice rack thirty times a year, the siren song of Netflix. We’re ALL trying to figure out how to do life—a happy, healthy life—and do it with some balance.
Let’s be honest: being healthy can be pretty time-consuming. All that yoga, hours at farmers’ markets, squeezing your own green juices, and then meal planning is all a bit much. When time is in short supply, all of this can get pushed into the back seat. Even as a food blogger, I can’t honestly say that I cook myself a meal from scratch every night. I’ve got shit to do, and that doesn’t involve spending hours at my stove.
While I’m single-handedly trying to build three businesses (which generally consists of Googling everything), completing a nutrition degree, and trying to explore more of the world, I also want to look after my body. I want to feel good while I tackle my to-do list, and I know you do too, but sometimes that goal can feel pretty elusive.
So while I haven’t got all the answers, I’m here to share my favorite food hacks: the tricks and tips I’ve learned that make healthy food SIMPLE.
My method is this: prep it, batch it, store it, assemble it. Okay, the prep might take a bit of time (we’re talking two hours a week, tops), but, short of ordering takeout every night, you’re not going to find a faster way to eat home-cooked, healthy food. This is the shortcut. This un-cooking cookbook aims to help you claw back time for actually important life stuff.
Now, we’re wasting valuable time. In the words of the great Macklemore: Let’s eat.
Sally x
Why Meal Prep?
We all seem to have less and less time, and when we’re pressed for time, the first things to go are sleep and cooking. While I can’t help you with getting more Zs, I can save you time AND money by teaching you the foundations of meal prep.
We seem to get by on less sleep and more coffee, less cooking and more takeout. The end point is the same, but quality of life takes a hit. What you put into your mouth has a huge effect on your weight and physical health. Exercise is an awesome way to improve things, but it can’t undo a bad diet. Eating well improves your mental health as well; when you eat good food, you feel better about your choices and happier with the way your body feels.
Healthy meals need to be easy to prepare and readily accessible if you want to have a chance of sustaining a balanced, nutritious diet. Once you have a few simple cooking methods and systems under your belt, endless meal combinations will be open to you.
I’m a passionate advocate of prepping food for the week ahead. When I talk about prepping, I don’t mean spending your entire weekend making all the things.
What I’m talking about is the intentional action of making a couple of hero foods that can be used in multiple dishes throughout the week. Every now and then I make other things in bulk so I can freeze them, ready to pull out whenever I need. If you can get into the bulk-cooking mind-set, you’ll begin to spend less time in the kitchen, yet have more food ready to eat in your fridge or freezer when you need it.
When I started planning meals with whole foods, I felt overwhelmed. It wasn’t until I learned to cook some hero proteins (Step 1), created recipes that I could batch-make and stash (Step 2), and then learned the art of food assembly
(Step 3) that I managed to get plenty of variety into my diet with minimal cooking time. I’m definitely not going to win any awards for reinventing the cooking wheel, but I sure as hell can teach you how to turbo-charge your meal prep to work faster and smarter.
If you want fine-dining options to wow your highbrow guests, you’ve picked up the wrong book. Go see a celebrity chef and set aside a day with your dry-ice packs. Meal planning isn’t about creating super-fancy or impressive meals every night; it’s about cutting down your daily cooking time and taking back those precious minutes for the important stuff, while still eating well.
Five benefits of meal prep
1 Saves time
2 Saves money
3 Reduces waste
4 Keeps your health on track
5 Helps with portion control
How to Put It All Together
To save your sanity, you’re not going to be batch-making almond milk and raw nut butters, soaking your own legumes, or making other things you can access easily and cost-effectively from a store. There’s also no place here for anything dehydrated, house-fermented, or with a million superfood ingredients. It’s a headache, it’s time-consuming, and it’s super-frustrating if it’s just not your jam. Burning precious time in the kitchen is not the aim of the game here. This is fast-action food assembly.
What’s meal prep about?
The goal of meal prep is to cook food in advance so that you can assemble meals with little to no effort during your busiest times of the week. Rather than cooking oats every morning, you prepare five servings