I'm sure I'm not alone in wanting to either lose weight, save money, or both in 2018. I've meal prepped in the past and kinda fell off the wagon this year but I want to get back into it. I also want to eat as cheaply as possible since I'm trying to buy a house this year.
I'd kill if there was something out there that just told me what to buy at the store and tell me what to cook/prep at home, and in turn I'd have 3 square homecooked meals each day that are healthy/low calorie and cheap. I'd lose weight, save money, and not have to worry or think about food. I don't care if it's bland, as long as I can just stick to it and not have to put too much time/effort into it.
Is there anything like that out there? A shopping list that tells you what to buy and eat for 365 days?
I think you must be on the weong board for asking this stuff, half this board is obsesed with fast food
Gabriel Bell
I don't know if I can fit 365 bags of dino tendies in my freezer, but I appreciate your help
Grayson Robinson
I tried to find something like that then gave up. Just gonna manually plan the first month then start repeating weeks until I have a good plan.
Zachary Collins
To all you people struggling with losing weight and prepping food, just jump on a one meal a day diet. You can eat whatever you want and lose weight easily.
Wyatt Lewis
I pretty much do that, as I wake up way too early to have any sort of breakfast, and don't get home until late.
The problem is that I drink a fuckload of beer to deal with this Huxleyan society we live in. My job demands extreme labor out of me, but I offset it by binging on alcohol every chance I get. What do? I don't want to give it up because it's the only thing keeping me going, but I also want to lose weight.
Nathaniel Ross
you just gotta plan it out, user i usually cook 6 or 7 big meals on sunday. refrigerate one serving of each, freeze the rest. that's what i eat for the week. i have enough stuff frozen that i can go 2 or 3 weeks without eating the same thing twice breakfast is usually yogurt with granola or oats sweetened with honey. you can get a giant canister of instant oats from aldi for less than $2. that usually lasts me 2 weeks or so. just giving up fast food, i've lost 20lbs since august
Carter Barnes
Nice. People like you give me hope.
If I didn't find any good resources or reading material from this thread then I was simply going to start building weekly shopping lists and meal plans and cataloguing them so I can revisit them.
James Rogers
Idk of anything like that, sorry. I'm more into meal planning than mass meal prep. I spend one evening a week planning out my meals for the next week, and creating a shopping list, which is how I stick to a budget and healthy eating. I can't eat the same things repetively like that, I'd go insane.
William Evans
I feel like I'd go insane too, but the major problem with my diet is that I am a delivery driver that spends 10 hours a day and 6 days a week on the road, so fast food is all I have. I have a bad habit of telling myself I'm just going to starve myself until I get home, then I'm out on the road and I crack under the pressure and drop 10 bucks on some disgusting food just so I can get something in my stomach.
Asher Cook
>drink beer >lose weight Pick on. Unless you want to go to the gym and do 2-3 hours of cardio a day, which doesn't sound like it's in your agenda seeing how you don't have much free time.
Zachary Hughes
I can totally understand that. In that case, I suggest you do what said, which is what I would do if I didn't have time to cook every day. Good on you for trying to make a plan, it really will help your budget and your health. I've figured I've saved on average between $200-$300 a month by meal planning.
Tyler Powell
fuck you fatties get a real problem
Samuel Murphy
Someone's drunk and bitter today.
Carson Diaz
get back to your containment thread, drunky
John Richardson
There are lots of books that will support this idea
Austin King
Only idiots who treat beer as if it doesn't have calories can't drink while losing weight.
>only idiots who drink enough beer to not lose weight will not lose weight
Wow holy shit user thanks for the wealth of insight.
Julian Murphy
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Dylan Martin
move up to hard liquor so you consume less calories
Christopher Reed
budgetbytes.com/ It is surprisingly helpful, ignore the clickbait appearance. Helps you eat cheaper and breaks each ingredient down by cost.
Nathan Hall
I mean this with as little offense as possible but are you a bit slow? Do you not know what foods you like? Just make those. I bought some three sectioned ones and just make a typical dinner in larger portions. This week was ham, mashed potatoes, and stuffing because Christmas. Last week was pork chops, beans, and broccoli. Meal prepping isn't some arcade science, just make a bunch of the meals you like.
Brayden Green
just learn the basics of cooking and make meals that fit your macros while changing up what type of proteins/veggies/carbs you're getting.
if you don't care if it's bland just buy rice, veggies and chicken and a food scale and eat that all the time, which is what i do. as long as you eat to a caloric deficit with your meals and don't cheat you will lose weight.
Joshua Foster
who the fuck uses it with an app? just go online like a normal person.
Lincoln Murphy
>Is there anything like that out there? A shopping list that tells you what to buy and eat for 365 days? common sense
Nolan Edwards
Eat This Much is great for this, OP.
Kayden Murphy
I want all the work done for me. Fuck off if you're not going to help.
Isaiah Wood
>i want to lose weight and save money eat less
Carson Smith
>Do you not know what foods you like most of us asking this question like garbage food. we're trying to learn what better foods can keep long enough to be lunch by friday when made on Sunday. We grew up in households that didn't teach us shit about good food and we're trying to peek into other's food bowls to see how the other half lives. Why do you hate self improvement?
Sebastian Young
Make stews and keep portioned containers/bags in the freezer for the fridays. That way you don't need to worry about expiration dates and get to eat something else at least one day of the week.
Other than that, look for a protein that is cheap or you feel like trying to cook for that week and look around for how people tend to cook that meat and what is recommended as side dishes.
Jason Moore
>eat lunch alone >coworkers call me introverted/asocial/anti-social/weird >say what I want to eat >"oh that's boring, lets eat something else" >end up being forced to spend an hour outside for lunch instead of eating at my desk >end up spending double of what I could spend and feeling less satisfied >coworkers proceed to get $3 drinks after that
I don't get as much enjoyment out of eating food. When lunch comes, I'm hungry so (mostly) anything is tasty. Spending $6 on a meal when I can spend $3 doesn't make me doubly happy, but saving that $3 makes me more happy than eating a $6 meal.
Why are people so bad with money?
Tyler Johnson
>Why are people so bad with money? People have been asking this question for thousands of years user. I wish I knew the answer.
Brayden Rogers
mate, you're not gonna lose weight unless you cut back on drinking. and you're not gonna cut back on drinking unless you stop making excuses (blaming our "Huxleyan society" or claiming it's the only way you can survive).
Kayden Walker
Instead of binging on beer, drink hard liquor neat. You'll eventually enjoy the taste alot better, it's actually cheaper than beer if you don't go for high end stuff, and you'll find it difficult to suck down too many calories.
Camden Green
Look into changing jobs to something you hate less
Carter Edwards
Is there a good way to solve this situation? Or make it suck less?
Some way of being social with co-workers without spending too much?
Ryan Sanders
Move to liquor or get another job
Colton Thompson
Bring your own food but some restaurants won't allow you to bring it in.
Instead of spending $6 a meal, I spend $3 and don't buy drinks, that $6 more they spend a day. ~22 working days a month 22*6 = $132 a month 132*12 = $1584 a year That's $92,392.08 by the time you retire!
Juan Gray
user, what you want is a grocery subscription service. they deliver you a box of ingredients for a week of planned meals along with instructions on how to prepare them.
Jackson Reed
do you have a meal plan or chart of what you make in a week or month? my ptoblem is unablle to plan
Henry Bell
seconded, budget bytes is pretty helpful. the site not the app, you braindead idiot.
Bentley Ross
I was being melodramatic, the truth is that I drink for free because I work for a brewery so it's become pretty common to have a couple heavy beers and pass out after a hard day of slinging kegs. I can give it up, it'd just be hard seeing as my job is labor-intensive while I'm simultaneously surrounded by free booze.
Brandon Peterson
I never meant to imply I hate my job. In fact, the physical labor is actually a redeeming quality of the job, seeing as I wouldn't be getting exercise otherwise.
Carter Ross
>hey guys check out these funny app revi- >BUDGETBYTES HAS GOOD RECIPES WHO THE FUCK USES THE APP JUST GO ON THE WEBSITE YOU BRAINDEAD IDIOT
Chase Cruz
Dont go for a main course, just have a starter. Good food but smaller portion.
Owen James
this
James Myers
naw. i just keep track of what's in my freezer and make something different. right now i'm making chili. also making a chicken and dirty rice dish that i found on pinterest. the whole thing cooks in a dutch oven. look good, so i thought i'd try it.
Gavin Reed
Meal prep is easy and you don't need a guide. Buy quinoa or rice and sweet potatoes, chicken, salmon and beef, and vegetables (Broc and spinach, onions, peppers) and a big thing of Tupperware containers. Cook a LOT of it. Or all of it. Don't worry about nailing the portions, just cook it all. Then divide it all up into the containers. Just eyeball it. You'll get better with practice. Don't worry about getting organic or grass fed or whatever if you can't afford it, it's better to get things mostly right than not right at all.
Or, as another user suggested, you could do IF and just eat one or two big ass meals a day. It actually works pretty well.
Noah Bailey
Breakfast: Oats with milk or water, add a banana if you are feeling frisky Lunch: rice with chicken, add vegetables Dinner: rice with chicken. add vegetables
Ryder Powell
>extreme labor job >trouble losing weight wtf
Andrew Cooper
That's what I'm trying. Vodka tonics instead of a 4 pack of tall boys every night
Brayden Johnson
i are interested in meal prep
Grayson James
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Henry James
>I'm sure I'm not alone in wanting to either lose weight, save money, or both in 2018. I've meal prepped in the past and kinda fell off the wagon this year but I want to get back into it. I also want to eat as cheaply as possible since I'm trying to buy a house this year.
You're doing too much and already set yourself up for failure. Either lose weight or save up for a house. You're not gonna be able to do both at the same time. You could do one then the other, however.
It might be too much for you, but not for me. Speak for yourself.
Blake Bailey
>i'm so competent and successful I need to ask for advice on Veeky Forums
Jose Cook
I'm not asking for advice on how to be confident or successful. I'm asking for a fucking meal prep outline or shopping list.
Quit being dense as fuck.
Elijah Sanders
I'd kill myself if I had this for any lengthy period of time
Daniel Watson
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Carter Anderson
switch from beeer to spirits
Jaxson Anderson
most people are plebs m8, u kno this??
James Watson
diet is way more influential to weight loss than exercise
Nathan Peterson
not op but thanks sauce for image?
Connor Flores
>maple AND brown sugar
lel, thanks for the diabetes, faggot.
Joseph Roberts
Go on the torrent sites, start download soup books, after trying a few you'll start seeing which ones are good or not. By having a few carrots, celery, onions, spuds, homemade or shop bought stock and some herbs constantly in stock then you can make millions of different soups or stews
Kayden Bennett
>take this 100 calorie shot instead of drinking a 100 calorie beer.
