Easy meal prep dinners are so valuable when you get home from work or school and just don’t have much energy left. Fast food is popular because it’s easy but with these recipes you can cook and be eating before you can pick up fast food or have delivery dropped off. Not mention the health benefits and affordability. Door dash will cost you an arm and a leg and still be cold when you get it. These easy meal prep dinner recipes are delicious and can provide great leftovers.
Quick and easy meal prep dinner recipes can rekindle your love for cooking. These recipes are all under 30 minutes and many are under 20 minutes from start to finish. Knowing you can eat good food with minimal effort removes the hurdles of cooking and for many, that is the most important element to starting a new habit.
Even though these recipes are all easy, if you’re looking for ways to improve your cooking skills and make meal prep even easier check out our article on Easy Meal Prep Tips. It’ll walk you through the necessary skills and provide methods for making mid week meal prep even easier.
How to Start with Easy Meal Prep Dinners
Plan as Much as Possible
- When grocery shopping, pick up staples for your pantry and proteins for the fridge and freezer. Having the ingredients ready to go when you’re ready to meal prep dinner is key. Nothing is worse than being ready to cook only to find out your protein is still frozen. Try to plan it out as much as possible.
Keep It Simple
- Easy meal prep dinners require fewer ingredients and fewer steps while being delicious and nutritious. Keeping it simple provides a great opportunity for success and confidence building. Not everyone is a chef but anyone can cook these recipes so it’s a great place to start and build on.
Freeze Leftovers
- One of the great parts of easy meal prep dinners are the leftovers. Storing food can be a skill unto itself so pay attention to the steps. Our article on Tips for Freezing Meal Prep can help.
- If you’re prepping more meals than you can eat in a week, consider freezing some for later. Soups, stews, casseroles, and many proteins freeze well and can be reheated for a quick meal in the future.
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Meal prep dinners are typically a much more affordable option and a good place to start is our article on Cheap Dinner Ideas. Although groceries are pretty expensive, fast food is incredibly expensive. These dinner ideas can save you a lot of stress when budgeting for food.
