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Maybe you’re one of those people that can eat the same thing every day and it never bothers you. That’s great. For the rest of us, though, eating the same meal prep five days a week has made for a loathsome lunch. But there might be something that can help.
Instead of storing your prepped food as complete meals, keep each ingredient separate so that you’ve got more freedom to mix and match.
What does this look like in practice? Commonly, when people meal prep, they choose a single meal—like a burrito bowl with quinoa, chicken, corn, black beans, and salsa—and then divvy up the ingredients to create five meals. Each meal has its own storage container, and boom, a grab-and-go lunch. But what if you stored those ingredients separately and gave yourself a few different ingredient options?
In the case of the aforementioned burrito bowl, perhaps you keep the chicken and quinoa as your protein and base. Go ahead and cook enough of them for the whole week. But in…
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