As you dive into the world of meal prep take your own favorite bulk recipes including soups, stews, and baked goods and find out the nutritional content with the easy steps outlined below.
First, grab a notebook and keep it handy with a pen in your kitchen.
Next, weigh out each ingredient you are using in your total recipe and jot that down.
Then, decide the number of servings you want that recipe to be.
Divide each of the ingredients by the number of servings you have chosen.
Those numbers and ingredients are what you will track in your food tracking app or log book.
To figure out your portion of the prepared mixed meal to eat, weigh out the total cooked weight of what you made and jot that number down too.
Divide that number by the number of servings.
This is how much you portion to eat.
Make sense?
It does take more effort up front, but the results from having accuracy in your portions and how much you are eating more then makes up for the effort. It also gets easier with practice.
Some nutrition coaching apps like Carbon Diet Coach have a recipe function. You input all the ingredients and then add in the prepared weight of the food and voila. Pick any portion and it does the macro calculations for each unique serving for you. This is what I do. I’ve been using Carbon since it launched in 2020! I highly recommend.
Find more meal prep tips, ideas, recipes and more in my e cookbooks. This info comes directly from The Art Of Meal Prep For Sustainable Living Volume 2. Click below for details.
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