These Healthy Meal Prep Tips Will Save Pro Cheerleaders During Busy Days
Meal prep can help pro cheerleaders achieve their fitness goals.
Whether you’re trying to lose weight or maintain your toned body, you need to consider nourishing your body the right way.
Eating out, you don’t have full control over added salt, sugar, oil, and allergy-causing ingredients. It also costs more.
Meal prep is even more life-saving for pro cheerleaders who also have a family to care for.
If you have never tried meal prep before or tried but lost track along the way, here are some tips for you:
1. Weekly meal plan and grocery shopping.
Choose foods with some common ingredients. For instance, ground meat can be used for pasta sauce, wraps, burger patties, or mixed with vegetables.
Focus on cooking simple meals with fewer ingredients. There are plenty of 3-ingredient or 5-ingredient lunch and dinner recipes on the internet.
When you plan for a whole week’s worth of meals, you can do your grocery shopping at once, cook on the same day, and be ready before the week starts.
2. Cook in big batches.
Busy pro cheerleader moms can cook a month’s worth of meals for their family, store them in single ready-to-heat packs, and freeze them.
It is important to divide the meals in single-heat packs like in Ziploc using vacuum sealers or stackable containers to avoid spoiling the rest of the batch. It also makes for faster and more even heating.
You can also freeze fruits to make your daily smoothie in the morning.
3. Buffet meal prep.
Weekly meal planning can be tough for some. Buffet meal planning makes it easier.
Using only the ingredients you love and eat frequently, make a meal plan and cook these meals without using too much seasoning.
You can boil or roast the veggies, prepare the salad greens and dressing in separate containers, and grill the chicken ahead of time. Place these cooked ingredients in containers and mix and match what you feel like eating on that day. With only salt and pepper to taste, you can create different recipes all throughout the week.
4. Know what to do with leftovers.
Double what you cook every meal. For example, cook twice as much for dinner to have leftovers for lunch the next day.
You can also try this: In Asia, it is common to cook leftovers with rice to make an interesting new dish. Meats are easy to add to different dishes, especially bland vegetables. You can also add leftover chicken, beef, or even fish to sandwiches, soups, salads, wraps, and pizza toppings.
5. Go fresh.
If you don’t like the idea of reheating frozen foods or leftovers, then choose meals with more fresh ingredients instead.
Vegetables like cucumber, lettuce, radish, and tomatoes need no cooking. Complement them with fish, hard-boiled eggs, or meat to make wraps or salads.
Opt for fruits and vegetables with skin you don’t need to peel. You can also buy pre-packed and sliced veggies and fruits as well.
Store carrot and celery sticks in a jar with cold water to keep them crisp all week in the fridge.
A Sustainable Lifestyle
When people stop prepping their meals, it’s almost always because of difficulty in keeping up. Others find repetitive diets boring. Initially, you will need to do research on recipes that need little to no cooking and few ingredients.
It is also essential to stock up on ingredients and tools that you use to season or prepare your meals.
Finally, save some room in your meal planning for spontaneity. This can avoid having prepared meals that get spoiled. It also takes into consideration dates, impromptu dinners, and meet-ups with friends. Now go on and enjoy a healthy pro cheer lifestyle.
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