One thing that is important to everyone is the food they are eating and the convenience. Lots of companies have found a way to take advantage of people’s desires to be healthy and make money off of that desire. It’s also a known fact that people will pay for convenience, we live in a lazy world. We all know it so we might as well just own the fact. I know I am because I have paid at one point for a food prep service and found I was dramatically overpaying for what I was getting in return.
Most of your food prep companies like 1% Fitness, Fed Up or Elite Meal Prep offer many different packages but will just make a generic menu for the week and you get whatever they have decided to mass produce. The pricing will usually range from around $120 to $200 a week. That is a lot of money considering most companies will only provide a max of 10 meals in a week and with the massive amounts of food they are having to produce can really lower the quality of the food.
I subscribed to 1% Fitness at a time because I was wanting to improve my body composition and knew I needed to get on a strict diet to do so. I signed up for a 10 meal a week program and was paying about $120 for them. I quickly found that the meals were not providing me with the macros I needed and required me to supplement my afternoon and nights with a couple extra meals which meant I was spending even more money just to get some extra calories in. After a couple weeks of the meals I started to get very sick of the bland meals and couldn’t even bring myself to eat all of the meals by the end of the week. Now that is just no way to live, so I have started creating my own meal prep and have found I like the food a lot more, and can save so much more money for only spending a few hours a week cooking.
All you need to know is the types of food to include in your meals, and roughly the quantity you need every day. Once you know that it just takes getting a little creative and looking around for new recipes to keep yourself from getting bored of your food.
If your goal is to lose fat you are going to need a to achieve a caloric deficit of around 200-300 calories each day while still reaching about 1 G of protein and carbs for each pound of your body weight. Keeping to these macro goals the sky’s the limit for what you can make while still achieve your fitness goals. Now that I cook my own meals I am able to make 12 meals a week that I actually look forward to eating, for around $45 dollars and the is even a little on the expensive side.
Some of my personal favorite meals to make are chicken cauliflower stir fry rice, teriyaki turkey patties and rice, or bolognese pasta with vegetables. These are all the simplest recipes that literally anyone could make and they fill me up while still making me feel healthy and strong!
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