You finished your meal prep tonight, right user?

I did it. It's over priced but was fun and definitely got me trying new things. You're definitely gonna need more protein than one they give you tho. So either stock up on an easy one or shakes.

Rally my friend

No, because if I chose to live my life like this I'd as well kill myself instead.

you don't find that's too much money for such small pleasure?

i personally meal prep to save money and help meet my calorie surplus. i find chicken, rice and beans or hamburger helper is the best value for protein, quantity and calories. chicken and turkey are the cheapest forms of protein i've found.

I'm 19 and just finished a gap year. livin with the rents for the summer before uni so I'm taking advantage of not having to pay for groceries.

Only Milk, All Day

I actually want eating food to be enjoyable, so im not gonna eat dry microwaved chicken with veg everyday.

>meal prepping
I guess you put them into many neat little containers and made cool pictures to post them on Instagram too right?
Also Veeky Forums or fitfags in general can't cook for shit or are just unwilling to make something tasty. Good forbid I treat food as something more than just fuel.

Why can't you meal prep something tasty? Are you also a shit cook?

I can but its easier to make something tastier when its fresh.
90% of the stuff I see in mealprep threads is a chicken piece with some vegetables. Why prep that when it only takes 10 minutes to make fresh?
Chicken in pan, in the other pan some frozen vegs and the add some sauce and spices. Finished.

My point is that there are plenty of things to buy which are already prepared like vegetables spinach etc. Meat on the other hand (especialy chicken meat which is the main meat for a fit diet) benefits a lot from making it fresh right when you need it in terms of taste.

>eating the same fucking shit all week
>eating anything that's more than a day old

God, this is fucking autistic. I'd seriously rather kys than live like this.

Nothing cooked, frozen, and thawed later is competing with fresh ingredient cooking but I'm saying there's a big gap between what you CAN do with meal prep and the strawman picture of dry, seasonless boiled chicken breast and thawed mixed veg

>eating the same fucking shit all week
Well, no. It's typically Mon-Fri. If you think that's autistic you're a god damn fat retard.

>I'm saying there's a big gap between what you CAN do with meal prep and the strawman picture of dry, seasonless boiled chicken breast and thawed mixed veg
I agree completely.

>Nothing cooked, frozen, and thawed later is competing with fresh ingredient cooking
Agreed too but that defeats the purpose of meal prepping again. If you clean and prepare all your fresh vegetables just to freeze them again, you could just buy frozen ones from the supermarket.

>it's not all week, it's just most of it

Well, you sure proved me wrong, lad. I'll think about you when I eat some of those juicy meatballs my girl made for me tonight.

then learn to cook you retard

>just unwilling to make something tasty.
this. I dont know why people here take pride in eating shit food when its entirely possible to make good tasting food with the exact same nutritional value.

nothing prong with prepping though. Just dont be a retard and do shit like freeze plain meat thats been cooked or something.

>prepping for 1 week
plebs. I do it 1 month at a time, but with the downside of slightly longer preparation time each day.
>cook 1 months worth of beans and rice, freeze it in 1 day portions
>cut all vegetables I use, freeze
>cut and freeze raw chicken
>prepare 1 month of sauce, put in refrigerator

When I eat all I do is
>remove rice/beans, chicken and vegetables from icebox couple of h before I eat
>when defrosted put chicken in pan and cook (~5 minutes)
>when done dump in rice, beans and vegetables
>let everything heat up (~5 minutes)
>serve with sauce

>The same shit for a Month
How do you deal with the crippling depression that follows?

>freezing and reheating month old food

Goddamn, Veeky Forums is culinary plebian as fuck.

I don't know about others, but I've past the point of eating just to tickle my tip. Its wasting time to make something "tasty" ie tasty till youre sick of the smushed together flavors and wanna puke

Enjoy those meatballs. I might make and eat some this weekend.

a month is really not that long for frozen food, and it all tastes the same as fresh. As war as I can tell from googling the things I freeze has no significant nutrient degradation in 1 month as well

Its my favorite meal that I just tweaked a bit by removing things that cant be frozen, so I enjoy it a lot.

Im the type of person who has 5 identical shirts, pants and socks and wears the same thing every day (except Sunday, I have a dedicated Sunday shirt which has crazy blue stripes on it!)

>Its wasting time to make something "tasty" ie tasty till youre sick of the smushed together flavors and wanna puke.
if it takes you more than 1 minute to make chicken and rice or similar fit food tasty your just a bad cook. and you can vary the taste a lot by using different spices and preparation methodss

nothing is tasty if you eat it every day, except pizza

>and it all tastes the same as fresh

Lol. Like I said, culinary plebian.

Are you Americans aware that you need to soak your brown rice overnight and then cook it in 5 parts of water for every part of rice? To cut down 80 percent of the cancerous arsenic.

>God forbid I treat food as something more than just fuel
That's the point of meal prep tho
This goes to all of you neets
A day has 24 hours
8 at work/school, 8 to sleep, 1-2 to commute, 1-2 to lift. You have 5 hours left. If you have another hobby/want to socialize with friends/bone gf/study extra/work overtime you have 1-2 hours left.
You bet your ass I'm not wasting any more than 10-20 minutes daily to cook. That's like 10-20% of my free time on which at best I can prepare and eat minute rice, baked beans, chicken with salt n pepper, nuked broccoli or peas. It also implies I have the luxury to cook and eat at home every day, which should not be the case for an active healthy 20-30s adult male. Fuck that noise. Instead, I'll invest 1-2 hours on Sunday to cook delicious, semi luxurious meals which I can freeze, wake up on time and not 30' early just to cook every day, put in bag, nuke and enjoy during lunch break

i'm taking this everyday to work
>bulking life
>buy medium pizza with 6 slices
>packs two slices, 2 scoops on shake bottle, and some chicken
>50g carbs
>20g fat
>80g protein

>if it takes you more than 1 minute to make chicken and rice or similar fit food
I want you to record yourself and post a YT video or a webm where you are cooking and tidying up chicken, rice and veggies in 60 seconds. Teach us your ways

tasty user, it takes less that 1 minute extra to go from bland to tasty. not total time.

bullshit, there is no difference between the taste of frozen and fresh spinach, rice, raw chicken or beans when properly stored. The beans may be a bit more mashed sometimes, so if you like them firm its a problem, but other than that there's no difference. Some foods cant be frozen and stay the same, but your basic bean/rice/chickenmeal contains none of them.

Maybe get a job that doesn't work you like a wagecuck? I go to work at 12 and leave before 5 and I get paid for a full 8 hours. Plenty of time to make non-shit food. Or could just buy some if I don't feel like it. Every big supermarket has its own kitchen here with plenty of meat, fish, salads, potatoes, rice, beans, pasta, etc. I've actually learned a few recipes from them.

My bad but still, our definitions of tasty differ. For me, it has to have sauteed onions, garlic and peppers which takes 5 minutes minimum. The only thing I can think of to make it tastier in under 1 minute is tossing in store bought salsa or garlic powder, which is neither a sign of a good cook nor tasty enough

>there is no difference between the taste of frozen and fresh

t. McDonald's

Where do you work, how much do you get paid etc

I work for a software company. Salary is above average for my country. The boss doesn't give a shit when we come or go as long as the work gets done.

No thanks I only need to treat food like a treat on the weekend. There's nothing mentally hard whatsoever eating the same meals 5 consecutive days a week.

dont know about onions since I dont use them, but I add a chili, garlic and parsley blend stored in olive oil I make in big batches, then add that with some turmeric and other spices and let it heat up for just a couple of seconds before putting it in the chicken.

yes, i filled my water bottles
>tfw water fasting for 5 days

It's just boring as fuck.

t. never learned how to properly store food

Nope. It's really fun how convenient and worry free meal prepping is. Even if I was a NEET I would do this. I bet when I eat burgers or whatever on the weekends I get a way higher endorphin rush than you do.

I like this guy

Are you me???

No. I'm married. My wife has a delicious healthy meal cooked for us every night when I get home from work, and she makes extra for me to bring leftovers to work. When I'm not working, I cook.

This thread is some nice sample of how salty people get over something they disagree, even something as simple meal prepping.

Your life sounds awful to me.

Yeah, sure. Frozen goods are totally the same as fresh food, mate.

This to be perfectly honest. What's the point when I'm a low test DYEL who only gets fat when I 'eat big' and lift big, and retains a flabby belly when I try to at least lower my bf%

onceamonthmeals.com

>27 HKV
Feels like quitting the gym all together and just sleep and lay down all day. I feel like all these gains and work is for nothing. I don't have friends and never had a gf. I just lift and eat meals,it's getting old. I need a social life but I'm very jaded, mom said I talked like a old man because of my outlook on life. Not good.

It would be much easier if I had a social life, the lonesomeness is driving me nuts

Dunno how any non-NEET could hate on meal prepping. I need to eat while I'm working in an office with only a microwave to cook food. Of course I'm going to mass produce delicious chicken+rice+veggies meals for lunch during the week.

The only realistic alternatives are eating trash or not eating. Maybe leftovers from last night, which isn't really any better.

>Go to doc and get blood req for test total + free
>Schedule draw appointment
>Stay up for 2 days straight and drink lots of booze/caffeine or take a shot and wait a few weeks
>draw

what about online dating? or further study(if only to meet people) and get involved with clubs and class fb group chat? do that. that's the most common way of building social group.

if you're really truly hung up on being a virgin, see an escort a few times and get comfortable with sex. it might help you to realise that sex isn't so terrifying.

watch maps of meaning/personality lectures in their entirety and pay attention

>all these gains
don't get too big. almost all girls prefer ottermode. this is a fact. a small minority of girls prefer cloudmode but you're going to need to cast a wide net as a 27 yo HKV and aim for what MOST girls like

do not fall for the strength meme.
do a PPL routine, eat healthily, do cardio

DO NOT FALL FOR THE FOLLOWING EXISTENTIAL CRISIS-INDUCING MODE OF THOUGHT

>>“The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies. We are so insignificant that I can't believe the whole universe exists for our benefit. That would be like saying that you would disappear if I closed my eyes.”

IT IS EDGY AND COOL TO SAY AND THINK BUT IT IS CANCER

derive your meaning from responsibilities

we are social animals that get the greatest sense of fulfilment from caring for others
that's why you've been drifting all these years.
you haven't had someone to care for other than yourself.

if you can carefully structure the next few months and aim them at building on your relationships with a long term goal of having a wife and kid to look after, your sense of fulfilment will increase exponentially

you're in your 20's
your life is not meaningless

you may object to everything i said or think that i'm mischaracterising what you're saying or think that i'm a pretentious douche but adhering to the above could dramatically improve you're life

reddit spacing

thank you user.

Poor mexican trashcan detected.

in the those cases, yes.

some food can be frozen without any negative effect on them. But go ahaid and keep feeling superior about how you eat more expensive and inconvenient food with no up side.

What? No.

>mfw when gf only knows how to make lasagna stuffed shells
>mfw sick of eating them 6 times a week but love her too much to say anything that might bring her down

So you truely are an autist
That explains a lot

It's not autistic but it also has nothing to do with being fat or fit. I understand doing it for time management purposes. But other than that I see no good reason to eat the same shit day after day.

As a guy that's eaten literally the same weekly meal prep meal every week for three years I beg to differ

If you can't prepare a different healthy meal for every day of the week then you're a fucking idiot and deserve to be a fatty.

If you're doing it out of necessity because you don't have the time to prepare a different meal every night then fine. But stop pretending like you're somehow healthier because you eat the same shit every night.

nice strawman

Where's a guide on what & how much to meal prep?

>only knows how to make lasagna stuffed shells
do you have any fucking idea how many variations there are on lasagna, stuffed noodles, and stuffed other things? this is either bait or you need to tell her she can easily and i mean VERY easily expand her horizons

Of course I did. Look at this tasty shit.

here

prep 3 days worth of food in advance, a week is too much as the food gets too old and shit.

How much? As much as one meal per lunch. The box you prepare is the one you take to work with you, so no need to prep anything more than that.

brekfust lunch n dinner

noice

looks good user

I hate reheating food. I'd rather cook every day desu

actually you can't.

freezing ALWAYS causes damage to organic compounds, which is a major obstacle in utilizing cryogenics to preserve human life

it causes this damage because ice crystals form within and between the food's cells.

it may be overcome with food prep and spices, but if you're just throwing it in the microwave for a couple minutes, probably not.

Recommend would youtube videos on how to do this with recipes and shit please

chicken + pepper + broccoli + ???
what is this white thing?

seems like some delicious cauliflower

Been marinading some chicken meat all night. Stuff is cash.

Recipe please? How do you do it?

are there any secrets to reheating food so its not shit

particularly rice, whenever i reheat it makes it so hard and brittle its completely unlike fresh rice

I think I'm autistic:

TDEE: 2870CAL/day
Protein:165g
Diet total:260g
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3 chicken breasts - 1070cal
170g protein
35g fat
11g carbs

45oz green peas - 900cal
72g protein
4.5g fat
186g carbs

27oz cooked rice - 900cal
18g protein
3g fat
197g carbs

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ONE MEAL:

>1 CHICKEN BREAST
>15oz GREEN PEAS (2.5cans)(1.87cups)
>9oz COOKED RICE (1.1cups)

I think this is accurate. Yes I'm 100g over my protein goal but who cares, protein.

Put a little water in the container and cover the top so it all gets steamed

seasoning? Sounds pretty bland otherwise

stop jacking off and watching anime and you'll find someone
happened to me

its like you have calorie aspergers

Vegetable rice, green beans and tuna steak

Get the fuck on it

Nah i cook lunch and dinner every night