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3 Meal Prep Mistakes Newbies Make

Meal prep takes a lot of time and commitment, but if you can get used to the routine and work involved, you can create the ultimate healthy lifestyle for yourself. Healthy meal prep takes a good deal of planning and forethought, but no matter what you do, you probably won’t be able to avoid making some of these everyday meal prepping mistakes:  1. Prepping Snacks Instead of Meals One of the cardinal sins of meal prep is not producing enough food. Like overeating, undereating can wreak havoc on your metabolism and health and can throw off your rhythm for the entire week. Something many healthy meal prep novices frequently do is create meals that are far too small actually to satisfy the appetite.  Underestimating how much food you need to get through the day is a super common mistake, one that leaves many people feeling grumpy and dissatisfied with their first experience doing healthy meal prep. At  My Healthy Penguin , we pre-portion your meals, so you are always guaranteed

LET'S GET THESE BLOGS GOING! WHATS UP WITH MEAL PREP?!

Meal Prep Delivery - What is ALL the hype about meal prepping? Meal prep, as we have all come to know, is merely cooking your meals in advance to save time, money, and ENERGY, most likely on a Sunday. I don’t know about you, but I like my Sunday for family and friends, not cooking. Meal preps are commonly used by people who intend to live healthier lifestyles or people who would instead do away with the stress of cooking in the first place.  There are tons of benefits to be gained from meal prepping your week’s meal, aside from cutting your cooking time optimally! Check out some of the benefits of meal prepping below: Save time: DUH. On average, people spend 10-23 hours cooking weekly! That sounds like a lot. Can you think of how amazing it would be to have food in way less time, say 5 minutes because that’s all the time you need to eat a meal? Imagine having a meal delivery service to deliver food to your doorstep every time you want it. Imagine how sweet life would be whe

The Roots of Your Labor - Quinoa Salad Meal Prep

If you would have asked me five years ago what I would be doing with my Thanksgiving leftovers, I could undoubtedly tell you it wouldn’t be making salad for meal prep. It would have been much more likely that I stuffed them between two slices of white bread or made some burrito abomination. The thing is, why would I want to spend more time cooking when I already spent countless hours slaving over the stovetop for a single meal? As it turns out, my tastes have changed drastically over the last few years, and I just can’t seem to get excited about leftovers anymore. That’s why I decided to transform my leftover roasted root vegetables into a new dish as a meal prep opportunity for lunch this week. It’s impressive how tossing them with some quinoa, and a lemon vinaigrette makes them feel fresh and exciting, rather than like a boring repeat meal. This dish gets bonus points for being unintentionally vegan. If you don’t have leftover roasted vegetables, these roasted root vegetabl

WHY PORTION CONTROL AND CONSISTENCY ARE THE KEYS TO A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE

A healthy lifestyle is not about a before and after picture, it’s about the before and during. Eating healthy, exercising, and making healthy choices is something you should do for a lifetime, not just until you reach a number on a scale. Sure, reaching that goal weight or being able to run 10 miles might feel like the end goal, but the true goal should be to maintain a healthy lifestyle and stable weight for life. While needing to commit to a lifetime of healthy choices might seem daunting, there are plenty of easy ways to make healthy living easier and more convenient. One of the easiest ways to easily follow a healthy routine is by ensuring you have fresh meal options available to you every day. Portion controlled meals eaten at roughly the same time each day can help you maintain a stable weight, feel more energetic, reduce cravings, and achieve weight loss goals. Here are just some of the reasons you should implement portion control meal prepping and routine into your h