Hi there, you are listening to the Lazy Genius Podcast. I'm Kendra Adachi and I'm here to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't.

Today is episode 300, you guys 300! How to Lazy Genius meal prep? It is the beginning of February and I think that February has big, like, rut energy.

Chances are we have for sure lost the sparkle of the winter holidays, we have definitely lost the sparkle of January freshness, and now it's just February.

You know, February gets a bad rap because it's possibly the most boring month. Very little happens for a lot of us and because we're so programmed to live a life of happenings, we can miss the loveliness that February affords, namely that it's usually calmer or nary regular.

You still have stuff going on, of course, but February is usually not a month with a lot of extras, which is why it can have rut energy, especially around the table. Maybe you are already tired of soup.

Maybe you had January goals to cook more at home or to try more new foods, and you haven't experienced that the way that you hoped you would.

Maybe you're sick of eating the same 10 meals over an over an over again, especially now that there's not as much busyness to break those meals up, like, with, you know, holiday parties and stuff like that.

Maybe you're having to tighten your budget after the holidays and you don't have as much money to spend on groceries.

Not to mention that the price of them is going up, like none of us are eating eggs right now.

I would like us to put a positive spin on this ordinary rut energy season, and I think one of the ways that you can do that is through meal prep.

Now, please do not turn off this episode because I just said meal prep. I promise you that I'm not going to make you do something you don't want to do.

I just think you could be well served by even thinking about what meal prep could positively do for you in the kitchen.

And if you find enjoyment and ease as you develop maybe the tiniest of rhythm around meal prep now, you will be more equipped to experience its benefits when we transition into a busier season with different kinds of meals.

So today I'm going to walk you through the right order to think about meal prepping.

Not necessarily the order of like what to do because what you do will be very different from what anyone else does, but, but kind of the order of your decisions.

Now, before we jump into that step by step, it is important to define maybe even redefine a couple of things.

First, what is meal prep? This is my definition. At its core, meal prep is doing something to food.

So it's easier to cook or eat later.

Now, we make it grander than that, but really that's pretty much it. It's also an answer to the magic question. What can I do now to make something easier later?

A way you can make eating and cooking easier later is moving your food further along the process of being ready to eat.

Now, I also want us to differentiate between food prep and meal prep.

Now, I'm not sure how many people like throw these two terms around interchangeably, and that's totally fine if they do.

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