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#24 – Steal my healthy meal prep routine

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Think you need to spend four hours chopping veggies and cooking every night in order to eat healthy?

Dude, who has time for that?

Maybe Suzy the Instagram influencer does, because that's her full-time job.

But if you have kids, a career, a training schedule, and a dog that needs walked, you need to cook smarter, not harder!

So in today's episode, I'm gonna walk you through a simple weekly meal prep routine to help your fuel your adventures the fresh and healthy way.

Ready? Let's do this.

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Episode Sneak Peek

  • [4:15] Why endurance athletes need to learn to cook smarter, not harder.

  • [5:00] When it comes to clean eating and meal prep, it’s important to go for stepwise improvement than instant perfection. Baby steps will be more sustainable than huge leaps. No, despite what laypeople peddling cleanses and meal plans want you to believe, you are not killing yourself by eating some processed food.

  • [8:54] The importance of weekly planning. How to get all the building blocks of a successful meal prep on your calendar.

  • [9:57] Why you should invest in quality meal prep containers, and how to use them effectively.

  • [11:07] How to choose simple recipes that will freeze well, plus some of my favorite examples.

  • [12:57] Why it’s better to cook in batches than to cook a different dish every day.

  • [14:17] The magic of creating a few weekly menus that repeat. Don’t try to learn to cook two many dishes at once. Get good at just a few.

  • [15:41] A simple power bowl formula that will use up all your leftovers.

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