1-Hour Food Prep to Build Strength and Boost Your Metabolism
Food prep may not be the most fun hour of the weekend, but it makes the upcoming week SO much easier! These are the recipes I made in 1-hour food prep to build strength and boost your metabolism.
I’ve been food prepping for years, but typically when I food prep I make meal components, not entire meals (like no casseroles here). I find this the easiest method to mix and match items throughout the week to vary flavors.
These are the recipes I made this week – in the order I made them – for the most efficient hour of prep.
Disclaimer: If you’re new to food prep this may take you longer than one hour. The more you do it, the easier it gets!
Always turn on the oven before doing anything else so it’s brought to temp before you’re ready!
Balsamic Grilled Chicken
- First, make the marinade.
- Marinade the chicken (in the fridge)
- Cook after you get some other things done for a quick marinade, or leave it overnight to cook quickly before dinner during the week
Roasted Vegetables
- Cut, chop, dice to get them ready
- Put on the baking sheet & roast
- I used the above roasted carrots recipe linked, but added cauliflower and fennel, but if you’re looking for other ways to change things up I love these Maple Balsamic Roasted Veggies too
Spaghetti Squash
- Cut, clean out, roast
Roasted Sweet Potatoes
- Cut in half, rub oil on the potatoes, sprinkle with kosher salt and bake cut-side-down at 400F until soft to squeeze.
Chocolate Zucchini Muffins
- You may think it’s a good idea to make muffins first, but I promise, get the veggies going first! Muffins cook in just ~20 minutes so they’re actually quite quick!
Chicken Meatloaf
- I basically make this recipe in a loaf pan instead of minis. It’s just easier to throw in a loaf pan when I was already roasting other veggies on the side.
Produce Prep!
- I de-seeded a pomegranate and rinsed the packaged steamed edamame and decanted into a container so it was ready to go… because every 3 minutes saves me time on super busy weeknights!
Stay tuned for my next prep full of delicious recipes!
xx