Ep. 357: 8 go-to meal starters to prep to save time on meals all week

So many of you want to get into a meal prep routine this new year and for good reason- meal prep is a game changer for making meals easier, all week long. But one of the biggest mistakes I see people make when they jump into meal prep is going in too hard, too soon and prepping so much they overwhelm themselves and don’t want to prep again- or prepping things that don’t make enough of an impact on their daily life so they don’t WANT to go back and meal prep again- and that’s what I want to talk about today. I’m sharing with you eight specific (as in, I’ll give you the recipe or tell you how to prep them) go-to meal prep ingredients and recipes I use to make meals easier, all week long. 

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Free 5-day meal prep email series
• 25% off Healthy Mama Meal Prep using code NEWYEAR24
• 10% off the 1-hour meal prep mini course using code PODCAST
• Episode 349: Mise En Place
• Episode 341: Freezer Prep
• Episode 339: The five things I meal prep every week
• Episode 348: 30+ ways to use rotisserie chicken as a meal starter
• Episode 329: Sauces and dressings and marinades (oh my!)
• Episode 356: Exactly how to start meal prepping this new year
• Episode 338: How I meal prep in just 1 hour a week
• Episode 340: The three styles of meal prep

Recipes Mentioned:

• Chicken Soup
• Green chile chicken enchiladas
• White chicken chili 
• Cheesy quinoa chicken & broccoli casserole 
• Quinoa Fajita Bake
• Skillet Chicken Pot Pie (Cooking Club)
• Tex Mex Sweet Potato Turkey Taco Pie 
• Chipotle turkey bowls (Cooking Club)
• Taco Salad (Cooking Club)
• Green Goddess Salad (Cooking Club)
• Buffalo Chicken Salad
• Perfect Pan-seared Chicken
• Apple Walnut Dill Chicken Salad
• Cranberry Pecan Chicken salad
• Copycat Trader Joe’s wine country chicken salad
• Cucumber Dill Chicken salad
• Peanut Chicken Salad
• Coconut Flour Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins
• Beef & Farro Soup
• Almost Autumn Farro Salad (Cooking Club)
• Black bean, corn and quinoa salad
• Honey mustard chicken bowls (Cooking Club)
• Harissa Chicken Bowls (Cooking Club)
• Sheet pan Shawarma Chicken bowls
• Five Ingredient Meatballs
• Curried Sweet Potato Turkey Meatballs
• Chipotle Ranch Dressing
• Homemade Herbed Ranch
• BLT Pasta Salad
• Buffalo Cauliflower Tostadas
• Cilantro Jalapeno Dressing (Cooking Club)
• Chili Mango Shrimp Tacos (Cooking Club)

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