What Is Meal Prepping?

Meal prepping involves making full meals in advance, often in bulk. You may prepare an entire dish at one time or you may prepare some of a recipe’s essential ingredients all at once. Here are three easy meal prep recipes for breakfast and three simple meal prep ideas for weeknight dinners you can meal prep in advance and store in the freezer.

What Are The Steps To A Successful Meal Prep?

I meal prep in four simple steps. I create a dinner plan for the week, I choose specific recipes to follow, create a grocery list, and finally create a meal prep guide. Creating a plan for the week based on schedules ensures I don't over prep. I also try to choose recipes that use the same or similar ingredients so I can cut down on my grocery bill and prep my protein and produce in bulk (to save time!).

How to Meal Prep: Meal Plan + Grocery List

Description

Enjoy this easy, family and budget-friendly homemade pizza recipe!

Ingredients

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Whole Wheat or Grain Free Pizza Dough or Crust of choice (I used Traders Joe’s Sprouted Grain Pizza Crust)
4–6 oz Pizza Sauce
1–2 Bell Peppers, diced
½ c Baby Bella Mushrooms, diced *optional
½ c Frozen Spinach, thawed *optional
6–12 oz Italian Sausage (depending on size of pizza crust), browned ground sausage or pre-cooked sausages, sliced
1 c Shredded Mozzarella Cheese
Additional toppings if you’d like or addition of dried oregano and/or fresh basil

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Instructions

Place pizza dough/crust on a pizza baking sheet, pending the dough you choose you may have to pre-bake before topping.
Spread pizza sauce evenly on pizza crust.
Add diced veggies, toppings and browned or pre-cooked sausage.
Cover with mozzarella cheese. Add any additional toppings and you’d like.
Bake per the pizza dough/crust instructions you have. My Trader Joe’s Sprouted Grain Pizza Crust required baking at 400 degrees for 15-20 minutes.

Prep Time: 10 mins
Cook Time: 20 mins
Category: Dinner