How to Become a Meal Prep Pro this Year | The Beginner's Guide to Meal Prep 

As someone with ADHD who procrastinates on getting food until I forget, having meals pre-prepped in advance is a great way to ensure I’m eating consistently

Been using your recipes for about 3-4 months now. I used to only do broccoli, rice, chicken because it was easy. Your recipes make it much better for only putting in a little bit more money, time, but with easy directions and simple cooking, it pays off. It's no longer boring food! Thanks so much!

To anyone on the fence: this site has made meal prep for me a breeze. A big reason I always had trouble was that my meals always tasted like ass and I didn’t look forward to them. Now they all taste good and I genuinely look forward to them, boosting my adherence.

Thank you. My big take away. It is so refreshing to have a young adult that is articulate, well prepared, and organized in his presentation. Not to mention on point about meal prepping.

If you absolutely hate having the same thing everyday you could make a meal with a carb you like, veggies you like, and a protein you like with basic salt and pepper. Then use different sauces or toppings to change the meal. Like Chicken and rice would easily be bbq chicken, spicy chicken, honey mustard, etc.

I've done meal prepping for years. Everything here is spot on. For meals involving rice, I don't package them like you do. Instead I put the protein and veggies on the bottom of the container, then spread the rice on top. It helps when reheating to not just have a block of condensed rice. Also when reheating the rice, I will place a damp paper towel (soak a paper towel then wring out the excess water) on top of the rice. It will revive the rice to like-new 100% of the time! Total game changer for me!

@Josh I’ve been using your meal prep recipes for about 5 months and I’ve lost 15 lbs. I just bought your gold annual subscription and looking forward to more meal prepping. I’m now training for a marathon and the nutritional benefits from your recipes has been a game changer for me. Keep up the good work and Happy 2023!

Also a way to freeze your food, is to vacuum seal it in a bag. Especially soups work perfect. Once the bag is sealed, lay it flat into your freezer and then you get a frozen plate. I store my soups in the freezer this way, like in a record shelf. So when people come over you just pull out a pumpkin soup like a DJ

Legit found your channel by chance a year ago and used your meal prep site to help me drop some weight. Even after my dieting, I found myself still attracted to using your methods and recipes because you made food easy and healthy. Thank you bro! Can’t wait to see what tasty recipes you put out next!

Much love for you my man. I don’t find myself following your recipes exactly but I definitely use them as a guide for my own meals (I’m pretty much just doing much more basic/simple stuff) and your videos have been a huge help in breaking that wall for me and making meal prep a part of my day to day life. And most importantly helps me eat well and gives me more time in the day to do what I want/need to get done

Hello from Houston, TX! I signed up for TMPM in June 2022, meal prep and working out have helped me loose 45 lbs since June. I'm truly happy for I came across your channel! I really appreciate thoroughness of each recipe and the nutrition information. I'm on a calorie deficit and it's hard for me to find recipes that break down the macros of the meal. Thank you do much, I look forward to more recipes!

I love that I found your content. I do meal prep, but this past year I wasn’t always consistent. You give so many interesting ideas for meal prep. Thank you!! I look forward to trying many of your recipes this year. I’m excited to save money and make healthier choices.

My family has used exclusively wooden cutting boards for everything for the last 25+ years. Vegetables, spices, fish, beef, pork, chicken... never gotten sick a single time from that food. Just wash with a bit of soap and hot water.

This guy knows. All these tips are things I've picked up from working in professional kitchen environments. Keep up the good work!

I've been watching your content for about a year and I really enjoy your videos. I meal prep my breakfast and lunches because I am not a real person until 10am and I can't be bothered to think about food until after that time. Your recipes are easy to follow and to alter to my particular taste. You also convinced me to get a rice cooker. I only have two pots and it's nice to have the extra cooker to free up space.

Dude you're a lifesaver. I've been trying to change my eating habits and exercising for the last ten years and always ended up back in the obese range. This year I just decided to do ONE THING (lose weight) and STICK TO IT until I reached my goal (110 lbs). I've always known about you and your website but decided to bite the bullet and purchase a monthly sub to get your recipes. It's been three weeks (started with Buffalo Chicken bowl one week. Last week was Beef Stew. This week is your Hamburger helper) and I lost 10 lbs. I did practice fasting this week (Mon-Wed) so that contributed to the weight loss but I started seeing real results, and I'm finally sticking to it! It's great!

This is by far the best comprehensive introduction to meal prepping video I’ve seen hands down. You’ve provided an extreme amount of perspective to the subject. Thanks very much for your video.

Been a member of the site for a few months. You’ve taken out the headache of endless scouring the internet for meal ideas. I log on the website, choose a random recipe and go with that for the week! Plus, I love how you’re just down to earth and straight to the point. None of that extra fluff. Thank you!

"I gotta watch the Dolphins lose every week." Same bro. The struggle is real

Can’t thank you enough for this, man. You really seem to care about people who watch you and that means a whole ton about the effort you REALLY put in. God bless you

Thanks for all your videos. The quick videos, tight editing, and easy recipes are so easy to follow, and makes bulk cooking accessible.

Biting the bullet and really making an effort to meal prep this year. Don't even want to talk about how much I spend on food a month eating out. Just picked up a TMPM sub and am looking forward to getting into it. Thanks for all the content man, here's to 2023!

16 minute video and not a single wasted word

Josh you are a lifesaver for real, I look forward to my lunches at work whenever I meal prep one of your recipes. I know its cost efficient, healthy, and tasty as hell. Thank you!!!

Thank you for this. I've had a really bad financial hygiene and I'm doing my best to improve it. All of these insights are priceless for me.

I am a big believer of meal prepping but lately watching people make low cal pizza and fried chicken had me occupied in kitchen every day but the first 5 mins of this video has convinced me to go back to meal prep. Thanks a ton. Youre doing a great job.

Most realistic and down to earth truth talk on meal prep!

I've been watching your channel for about a year now and have learned a bunch from your videos. I'm excited to see what you come up with in the future! Also, if you end up producing a meal prep container, I'll buy it to show my appreciation for you teaching me so much. Give respect where it's due. Thank you again!

Also, freezing a few meals here and there helps to give an extra variety for me (I also make Patties of all kinds salmon fish beef chicken turkey you name it and I’ll freeze them, I’ll make legumes and store in big containers freeze or fridge and I can literally just mix and match or make some things fresh the day of) There’s so many ways to mix and match and make this work for us, you got this peeps!!!

omg thank you SO much for this! There is way too much info and videos about this topic and your video is the best by far. I haven't even started prepping but I'm excited. Thank you!

Been using your website and videos for a couple months. None of your recipes have left me hanging. The hidden vegetable butter chicken is my favorite. Keep killing it man

This is such a well articulated and accessible approach to support goals associated to meal prepping!! Keep killing it 🔥🔥 Thank you!!

Starting my meel prep and fitness journey again. Fell off for a while but finally in a place I can give it the focus and attention it deserves. This video was a great refresher and perfect for anyone who is brand new or just getting started. Great job and subscribed!

This was so incredibly helpful and informative. As someone who doesn’t like to cook (and isn’t good at it) a lot of meal prep videos just jump right in assuming you know a lot already. This was perfect, and thank you!

holy fuck, the gift that keeps on giving. thank you for making quality recipes & relatable/funny videos. we appreciate you! happy new year

Fantastic. Not one moment waisted! I appreciate this video so much. Thank you.

Thanks for the overview! I'm working on building up my kitchen supplies to start meal prepping this year, so the information on what kind of cookware and meal prep containers I need is great!

Great video. I started meal preping and working out with a trainer in late June of this year. Meal prep in early September was stating to get "boring" but then all of a sudden started seeing youtube videos of people like Josh meal prepping giving me some great ideas and product codes/links for meal prep containers. I'd say now with confidence that future meal preps will be more rich in flavour and have more variety. Super excited.

I freeze a lot of my meals and cook in really big batches. So I've got stacks off different meals so I have a decent amount of variety. So for anybody that needs to mix it up, I recommend cooking 2 meals per week and spreading them out over the month. Hope that helps!

Just signed up! I started doing some of your recipes in the summer and had great success with my weight loss goal. Worth the money to have access to your recipes and support this channel!!

Awesome Video! Thanks for all your help. Your rice bowl recipe helped me become more confident with meal prep and keeping me consistent.

Hey, I just logged in to say THANK YOU!! I’m on a muscle gain journey and found some recipes on your meal prep manual website . I tried two recipes so far. Both were simply amazing. Honestly it’s a game changer - I can easy track the nutrition intake in each meal and don’t need to stress about what to eat after work ☕️ My personal favorite is the Korean Spicy Chicken recipe! (Yes I’m Korean) - the taste is really on point and it’s so easy to make. Thank you 🙏

You are jammed packed with knowledge!!!! ❤

The best! Love the style of presenting the facts. Down to the point and just no fuzz around it.

Been meal prepping & eating almost exclusively homecooked food for a year now. This channel helped me a lot (the protein waffles & oatmeal breakfasts are mainstays for me now). Keep up the great work.

Awesome content, man! I'm loving seeing this channel explode as far as viewers/sub count goes!!

Thanks for your content man(and for the sale!). I've casually subbed for some time-just signed up on your website. What you have done is fantastic and absolutely will help so many people for years to come.

You introduced me to gochujang and I am forever grateful

Thank you for a great introductory video on meal prepping! I am an older woman with a fair amount of time on my hands for cooking, but even so, sometimes I would like to have easy to eat meals that are healthy. This sounds like a great idea! I'm also sharing this with my son who struggles to find the time to cook. I hope this will help him also! Thanks again!

Wow! So glad that someone on Reddit referred me to you, Josh. What great information! I’m excited to start and looking forward to your future content. Great job!

For reheating rice or noodles I spritz with water and cover the plate/bowl with a damp cloth to create steam.

Love how you give tips on what to do AFTER prep meals! A lot of people on here don’t say what to do after!

I just decided to start meal prepping and this video was so so helpful!! Thank you

Dude. You are spot on. Great content creation. Fast and efficient. Just the way I roll

I’m a vegetarian so your recipes usually aren’t for me, but your channel has been GREAT as a single mom cooking for my kid. This was equally as helpful. I don’t always have time to cook, sometimes I work past dinner and bedtime. I still want her to eat more than just pizza rolls. So thank you.

Hey Josh, your content is incredible, you are an absolute legend thank you so much mate.

Very clear, straight forward cooking prep info ! Well spoken. So thanks for taking this time to make this video. great job.

Your explanations are SO easy to understand and useful to convince people to start meal prep, thank you so much

For rice, and for microwaving meals in general, I've found it heats more evenly and comes out less dry if you put a damp paper towel over the whole thing then microwave it for about 2-3 minutes (depending on the depth of your container, I used 3.5 cup rubbermaid plastic containers, about 2 an half inches deep) Just take a square of the paper towel, wet it, squeezed it to get most of the water out, then cover the top and nuke it for 2-3 minutes, rice comes out great, and I think the water and towel layer helps keep moister in the rest of it.

Love your videos! I'm excited to keep meal prepping in 2023!

Not me sitting here eating your PB&J baked oatmeal prep recipe for breakfast... Thanks to you and some other chef YT channels, I'm down 35 lbs from this time last year. Exercise has certainly been a factor, but these meal preps have been the ace in my sleeve. When people say "how did you do it?", they are bewildered when I tell them that it was mostly just a change in diet :)

Thank you so much. This is the most detailed meal prep knowledge I've received freely from the internet. Very practical, and well organized, helps many aspects of personal life.

I’m new to your channel and I’m loving it!! Thank you for all the great info.

I love this full tutorial I’m a college student who does college full time so I’m on a budget that my dad provides me each week and so this is so much easier to start trying to do as I have a TERRIBLE relationship with food and want to eat better and eat in general. I’d love to prep on Sundays but I don’t get my weekly allowance till Monday 😅 so my plan for me and my bf’s prep is to prep Mondays and maybe Thursdays or something like that because I’m a bit of a picky eater ESPECIALLY when it comes to leftover foods.

Excellent video!!! Best meal prep video I've seen yet. Thank you.

The most complete tutorial on meal prep I have seen. I'm definitely going to do some of your preps. Thank you, sir!

Watching this in 2024 .. such a high quality, no BS, professional video! I’m glad I found this channel. Subscribed and recommended!

Straight to the point, definitely appreciate that.

You my man are a lifesaver. Been looking for a good instruction video.

I'm started to get busy in my final uni year and come across ur video. Thank you for the guidelines, they are very detailed and helpful.

Thanks for your videos! I appreciate them all!

Best meal prep video I've seen. Thank you.

Loving this channel so far and I am excited to try some of your recipes I also have a recommendation for meal prepping salads ☺️ When storing salads in the fridge I always recommend using paper towels. But the mistake that most people make is putting the paper towels down into your meal prep container before your lettuce. Using paper towels for meal prepping salads has been a game changer for me !! It is best to put your paper towels on top of your salads not underneath!! For example, first put your lettuce in your meal prep bowl and add your veggies as you normally would .With this hack you're able to use a wider range of wet vegetables, like tomatoes an cucumber. After you put your toppings on your lettuce fold a paper towel and lay it on top of your salad then put your container lid on, and store your salad upside down. So that when the water from your vegetables sweat it is not draining downwards causing your lettuce to wilt but directly onto your paper towel. Simply remove paper towel when ready to eat and you are left with a nice crispy salad to enjoy. You can make up to three to four days worth of salads by doing this . I hope you all try it ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Wow, just wow. The information here is pure gold. Thanks!

That was incredibly helpful for a newbie like me! Thank you! ❤👏🏼

you buy once-you cry once---love it

Very good video. Straight up to the point. No fluff whatsoever.

My buddy recommended me this video cuz he's always encouraging me to be healthy he's my work out buddy and my friend thank you Nate & thank you josh

i'm in college and I cannot tell you how much these meal prep videos have helped me!!!

Thank you, Josh. I've been subscribed to your channel for a while but I had only started out meal prepping about 2 months ago. Lost 6% bodyfat ever since and have never looked back.

Super informative, and straight forward. Love it. Thanks for the tips! 😊👍

just decided to meal prep this video is really helpful

Josh is the best! By far the most thorough, easy to understand and follow. I’ve watched so many channels and he exceeds all the others. Keep up the good work!

You are great! All my meal preps in the last few months were from your videos' recipients

Great video, thanks!

This was so helpful

Hey Josh, I've never meal prepped before, been watching your vids for a few months. Just subscribed to force myself to start :) thanks

Thank you!

The best video about how to meal-prep.

I genuinely appreciate your dry humor

I'm taking this advice to heart

Great video this is def the ultimate guide for mealpreps!

I appreciate that you made this video for us. Very informative 💯

Loved the video. Extremely practical with a dose of humor that I enjoyed.

Great video! First I've seen from you, will be checking out more. I'm a big fan of making 4-5 meals that end up being lunch and dinner for the next couple of days. I'll usually try and do a higher effort meal on Sunday, and then something quicker when I run out halfway through the week.

Hey Go Hawks! Been using your website for over a year and it has dramatically changed my husbands and I's nutrition and diet. Thank you! We use the Rubbermaid brilliance glass version and we love them!

Great content with lots of takeaways . I look forward to implementing these strategies. Cheers from australia

Thank you so much

Happy New Year and thanks for all the great recipes... I lost 20 pounds meal prepping some of your stuff over a few months 💪

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