Batch Cooking
Posted by Chloe Murphy | 25th Aug 2022
Batch cooking involves preparing various components of meals that can be combined to form a meal at a later date, allowing for a little more freedom compared to meal planning.
Why opt for batch cooking?
If meal planning and eating the same meal for 3 or 4 days isn't for you, batch cooking could be a better option, as you can combine the components that you have prepared to create something different each day!
So rather than opting for takeaways or grabbing on-the-go meals, try preparing the various elements of meals that will create a healthy balanced meal in no time while achieving your health goals.
What are the Benefits of Batch Cooking?
- Batch cooking helps save time each evening.
- Helps save money if food waste, takeaways, and eating out is a common occurrence.
- Helps to add variety to the diet, as you can prepare and plan to incorporate more foods into your meals.
- Helps achieve your health goals.
- Helps prevent food waste.
- Allows you to have healthy options at hand.
- Reduces stress from cooking each evening and deciding what to eat.
How to get started?
If Batch Cooking is new to you, here is the best way to get started.
In order to create a healthy balanced meal, you can follow the Healthy Plate guideline, which includes;
-1/4 wholegrains
-1/4 protein source
-1/2 fruit & vegetables
So firstly, prepare some wholegrains, for example brown rice, brown pasta, and quinoa. Then cook some vegetables separately such as broccoli, carrots, peppers, and mushrooms. Followed by your protein sources, this may be poultry, beef, lentils, beans, and eggs.
For instance, you may prepare 2 varieties of wholegrains, 4 types of vegetables, and 2 protein sources.
Once you have the elements prepared, you can store them in the fridge or freeze some of the prepared components. You can then mix and match to create your healthy plate and a balanced meal.
Why not change it up each time by using different sauces!
No time to Batch Cook?
If time is the issue due to your busy lifestyle, our meals would be very beneficial, as they have all the benefits of batch cooking without having to spend any time preparing! You can view our range of meals here.