The Easy Guide to Meal Prepping
The Easy Guide to Meal Prepping
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All about meal prepping with HelloFresh
What is Meal Prepping?
Meal prep involves planning and preparing your meals in advance, easing lunch and dinner times for the week ahead. This can be anything that simplifies your meals, whether that’s batch cooking so you just need to heat up your food, or pre-cutting and portioning ingredients so they’re all ready to throw in the pan. It’s up to you how far in advance you prep too; some people may choose to freeze their meals for the month while others may prefer to plan the next few days.

How to Meal Prep
Step 1: Plan
The first, and arguably the most important step of meal prep, is to plan the meals you’re going to make and when you’re going to eat them. Think about your week ahead and write a list of the meals you’d like.
Step 2: Choose your ingredients
It's a good idea to choose meals that involve the same ingredients, as you want to try and avoid wasting any food or money. You should also consider harder vegetables like carrots, peppers and broccoli as these keep fresher for longer in the fridge.
This can sometimes be one of the downsides to meal prep, as meals can feel repetitive. However, meal prep services such as HelloFresh can combat this as you’ll receive both pre-portioned ingredients and a good variety of recipes.
Step 3: Prepare
Next, it’s time to prepare your ingredients. Chop all of your hard veggies and store them in the fridge in an airtight container. If you’re making the whole meal ahead of time, cook your veg and proteins and portion them in tupperware. You can also batch cook one-pot recipes such as pasta, rice and curry dishes.

Meal Prep Ideas for Batch Cooking and Freezing
There are countless recipes and cuisines you can cook in one go. Here are some of the best easy and healthy meal prep ideas:
- Risotto - Like our Tomato and Mozzarella Risotto
- Curry
- Stews
- Shepherd’s Pie - Our Lentil Shepherd's Pie is a delicious veggie option.
- Lentil Dhal - Try our Roasted Aubergine Dahl
- Pasta
- Roast chicken and vegetables
- Tagine

Meal Prep Ideas for Ingredients
Pre-portioning, cutting and storing your veggies can help you speed up meal times significantly. Here are some meal prep ideas for when you just want to throw things in the oven or pan:
- Stir fry - Our Garlic and Ginger Beef Noodles are speedy and delicious
- Tacos, quesadillas and fajitas - You’ll love our Sweet Corn and Bell Pepper Tacos
- Veggie burgers
- Buddha bowl
- Fish, chicken or steak and roast veggies
- Curry
- Pasta - Try veggie packed dishes such as our Pesto and Bacon Rigatoni

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Meal prepping for one with HelloFresh

Meal prep techniques for families
Choosing a family-friendly meal delivery service like HelloFresh is a great way to do this too - the whole family can choose meals each week, while the simple recipes make it easy for kids to follow along too (with the help of a grown up, of course).
What kind of recipes do you like?
What are the benefits of choosing a meal prep service like HelloFresh?

Pre-portioned ingredients and easy-to-follow recipes
HelloFresh takes all the hassle out of mealtimes, providing with the freshest ingredients so that you can easily whip up tasty dishes every week.

A wide range of delicious recipes
You’ll never get bored with HelloFresh, as you can choose from a huge variety of recipes with veggie, low-calorie and family-friendly options.

Healthy, nutritious meals
All HelloFresh recipes are carefully designed by our culinary experts to provide you with mouth-watering meals that are packed with fresh veggies.

Pre-portioned ingredients and easy-to-follow recipes
HelloFresh takes all the hassle out of mealtimes, providing with the freshest ingredients so that you can easily whip up tasty dishes every week.

A wide range of delicious recipes
You’ll never get bored with HelloFresh, as you can choose from a huge variety of recipes with veggie, low-calorie and family-friendly options.

Healthy, nutritious meals
All HelloFresh recipes are carefully designed by our culinary experts to provide you with mouth-watering meals that are packed with fresh veggies.
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