if you want to save time in the kitchen then watch this video because I am
sharing with you the must know meal prep hacks to make quick and healthy meals
hey everyone welcome back it to my channel my name is live and we make
healthy delicious recipes here on keep up with live and in today's video I am
sharing all of the must know meal prep hacks to save time in the kitchen and so
that you can make easy quick healthy delicious meals all week long so let's
go ahead and get into it so the first meal prep hack is to buy pre-cut or pre
chopped veggies so this can be things like sweet potato Brussels sprouts
pre rice cauliflower spiralized zucchini but buying these things already done if
you are on a time crunch is really gonna save you time in your meal prep because
you're not spending time chopping things or washing things or anything like that
it's kind of already ready to go for you these are a little bit more expensive
but it kind of just saves you a bit of time so if time is what you're looking
for this way you can just dump a bag out into the fridge the freezer or get it
ready for roasting right away and just season it as you want to but it's
definitely one of the most time consuming things in meal prep is
chopping so this saves all of that the next must note meal prep hack is to buy
a whole rotisserie a chicken I have been doing this for years and
this it makes meal prep super easy because all you have to do is take the
chicken off it's already cooked and that way you can use it in different ways all
throughout the week and it's a big amount of chicken as well so I like to
look for one that's organic and antibiotic free and that way it saves
you a good chunk of time in terms of protein and it's something that you can
add to dinners but also to lunches and things are like salads and that
the next must-know meal prep hack is to get your lemons ready for your lemon
water in the morning I have lemon water every morning it's super great for your
digestion it has vitamin C but you do pend time cutting up the lemon getting
it ready to go and that might make you less inclined to
do it because you don't want to take those extra few seconds to cut the lemon
and do all that so by cutting your up your lemon in advance and just keeping
that in a mason jar you just grab one squeeze in the morning and it's really
simple it just adds that little bit of ease into your meal prep to make your
week easier and to make your mornings easier as well the next meal prep pack
is to freeze your smoothies feels a lot of people don't know that you can
actually blend and freeze your smoothies ahead of time and then either take it
out of the freezer in the morning and bring it with you or take it out
whenever you need it I would suggest storing it in a glass
mason jar a that way you don't get plastic leaching into your smoothie but
also you're not risking it in case of like umber cert shattering it freezes
well it saw as well it's perfect so you can definitely meal prep a bunch of
smoothies on hand keep those in the freezer and then just take one out
whenever you want one or in the morning for breakfast the next must-know meal
prep hack has to do with eggs and you can very easily cook eggs in the oven
all you have to do is place them in the oven at 350 degrees for 25 minutes and
that is a really great easy way to ensure that your eggs are gonna be
cooked and they make a really good quick protein for salads or for snacks
throughout the week you kind of just put it in set it and forget it and then that
way you have this really quick easy protein that you can use and it's really
easy to kind of meal prep in advance
the next must know meal prep hack is to make your chicken marinades or whatever
kind of protein marinades you're making in advance in your stash your bags and
have them ready to go either in the fridge if you're no you're gonna eat
them soon or in the freezer that way once you come home from school or work
you can just already here I need to go to stash your bag you put it in your pan
or your pressure cooker or whatever you're doing it's already ready to go
and it's already kind of been marinating in those flavors and like it's gonna be
so much more tasty than if you were to not do it in advance this way you can
also make different kinds of flavors so what I like to do if I'm buying like a
bunch of chicken for the week I can use the smaller bags and put different
flavors in each of them you can do like cilantro lime you could do taco you
could do balsamic you can do so many different varieties but not have all the
same flavor throughout the week so you're not eating the same taco chicken
you know Monday through Friday the next must-know meal prep hack is
what I've shared before but one that continually saves me and that is to
store your berries in a mason jar berries notoriously go bad quick and I
feel if you can buy them at the beginning of the week and then by
mid-week they're moldy you've wasted food you've
wasted money so what I like to do is right when I get home I meal prep them
by just washing them and then I put them in a mason jar and it helps to keep them
fresher longer especially I find with organic berries
they do go bad even faster so this is a great way to kind of prep your berries
so that they keep all week long and they're also ready to go and you're not
spending time you know washing your berries every time you're having them
throughout the week the next must note meal prep hack is to buy frozen
vegetables because they are partially cooked so when I learned this I was so
excited because I didn't know that if you buy frozen vegetables like for
example cauliflower they're already partially cooked and partially thawed so
you don't even have to cook them because if you were to cook the more they'd be
mushy I kind of just let them thaw and I put them in containers and that way you
can throw them into stir Fry's or salads all throughout the week
and it literally removes the cooking process so it removes even like a burner
or another thing you're putting into the oven during your meal prep so it saves
you time and a lot of the time to frozen stuff is actually cheaper plus it is
frozen at its peak freshness so it still hold all of that really great
nutritional value so this is definitely like one of the best meal prep hacks to
know because it's going to save you time it's gonna save you money to the next
must know meal prep hack is to shred chicken easily using a kitchen mixer so
I could sometimes you know buy chicken breasts and you cook them and they're
all thoroughly gone you want to kind of break them apart so that they're easy to
use in salad or to use and tacos all you have to do is use a KitchenAid mixer for
like I would say 1520 seconds it breaks up a
cooked chicken really easily and then it's already ready to go you can put it
into your meal prep container and use it throughout the week the next must know
meal prep hack is to store your herbs in oil and this way it's a great little
flavor boost that you can use throughout the week and it's already ready to go
not only this but it also helps to save fresh herbs in case you don't think
you're going to be using them all before they go bad so I like to do mine and
avocado oil but you can also do olive oil and you can do whatever kind of
blend or herbs that you want you can do parsley you could do cilantro you could
do chives whatever you like or whatever you use most this is a great little
thing that you can prep in advance into your meal prep and then use it
throughout the week to just add so much flavor to your meals
the next mass no meal prep hack is another one that's gonna help save time
and money and that is to take your paper towel and add that into any fresh greens
that you have that way the greens are gonna last all week long they're not
gonna go moldy or start to go slimy or anything like that I don't know about
you but there have been times where I don't put the paper towel in the
container or in the bag and then everything gets slimy and moldy and
there's that weird green smell and then you're stuck because you don't have
greens for the whole week but you had that prepped and ready and then it's all
just a whole kerfuffle so take your paper towel put that with your greens
and that helps to absorb any moisture which is what prevents them from going
too slimy in going all gross the next must know meal prep hack is to skip
peeling so this applies to things like a sweet potato you don't need to take the
time to peel them because a not only is the peel edible but there's so many
vitamins and minerals that are in the peel of a lot of vegetables that we tend
to remove this also goes for things like delicata squash you guys know I love my
delicata squash fries and I get a lot of questions about whether you can eat the
skin or whether I remove the skin and I don't because not only is it edible but
there's so many vitamins and minerals and also just so much flavor in the skin
so you can totally skip the time to peel them keep the skin on it adds flavor
adds nutrients it's just the win-win all around
and the next must know a meal prep hack is to use overlapping ingredients so
what this means is buying one ingredient and use it in different ways throughout
the week so that you're not trying to cook 50 different vegetables so you can
cook a bunch of broccoli and use it in salads you can also use it in a beef and
broccoli stir-fry you can use it in different ways so that throughout the
week you're not having to use a bunch of different vegetables and cook you know
the broccoli then a little bit of carrots then a little bit of sweet
potato you kind of make your life easier by just clicking one big batch of one
thing and that way you can use it in different ways throughout the week so
now you have the must know meal prep hacks in order to save time in the
kitchen and to make quick and healthy meals if you like this video give it a
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I'm gonna leave my meal prep playlist right here where you can see kind of
what I like to meal prep for the week my recipes my tried-and-true things that I
like to do and there's also some free pdf guides in this playlist as well so
you're definitely going to want to check that out after this video I hope you
guys are all having a great day and I will see you in the next video bye guys