We want to break out of this cycle of ordering delivery but at the same time, cooking everyday has been a challenge. We also have been trying to develop some sort of routine where we meal prep on the weekends but we live in an apartment with a really small kitchen so cooking and storing food for 5 days doesn’t seem doable. Maybe cook for 3 days and then prepare the ingredients to cook again on Wednesday?
I’d appreciate if you could share your strategies and experience. The goal here is to eat healthy and good food.
Edit: Thank you everyone for all your contributions! I am a little overwhelmed by the number of replies so I if I do not reply to you please do now feel bad!!
the crock pot is a lifesaver here, and I’ve learned a couple tricks to make it even better. The go-to example that I have is throwing some chicken and some french onion soup mix in there before I got to work, then shredding it when I get home. What you end up with is juicy, flavorful chicken but in an almost entirely generic way such that you can use it on almost anything. Dinner salads, mayo-based chicken salad, toss it in some oil w brown garlic to go over pasta, sammiches, whatever. Any crock pot meal is gonna be your friend here, but this one is something that I make before I have a plan for it just because I’ll almost always find something good to do with it and it takes literally less than a minute of actual work from me.