Meal Prep HACKS For Quick & Healthy Meals! MissLizHeart

Hey guys welcome back so today I'm going to share with you some little tips on how you can make

meal

prep

a little bit easier and these are things that I do to

prep

are for the week so in case you enjoy the video, please give it to me. Thumbs up and also consider subscribing before you go, so we usually take one day out of the week and go shopping as a family and before we go shopping I like to do a

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little scan of the fridge, just take inventory. and see if there is anything we are missing during the week that was not eaten and that way we know to buy less and it gives the refrigerator a clean slate so that when it comes time to prepare food, everything has a home again , but we like to wash all of our fruits and vegetables with vinegar, which is basically just a splash of white vinegar with a little bit of water and we let everything soak for about two or three minutes, we just use plain white.

We get the vinegar from Costco, we usually buy a giant bottle because we use it for so many different things and what it does is it helps clean the products of any dirt, it also helps prevent mold from growing on them and even though we do. Try to buy all our organic products. It's still good to do it because sometimes your products can touch other things that have chemicals in them and this will remove all of that. You will notice that we also applied the vinegar wash. things like limes and lemons because they're shown in the same bullet points as the things we eat and sometimes I like to zest some for our sauces and I want it to be nice and clean.

I don't want to have to do it. When washing at the last minute, we also take the time to dry each item individually before placing it in its permanent place so that mold doesn't grow, so we keep our lemons and limes out on the counter. I also recently found these little fresh papers on Amazon and they are really great, you basically just take a small sheet and you can put them directly in the drawer where you keep your products or you can put them inside different containers and this really helps keep them fresh for a while. much longer is pretty crazy and I was a little skeptical at first but it actually works very very well guys if you like these little containers that I keep my fruit in and I'll say on my food prep containers that I'm going to be giving away a full set of them on my Instagram, all you have to do is follow me there to find out the rules.

It's just that at Miz Liz Hart we love using fresh herbs around here, they tend to go bad pretty

quick

ly if you don't store them. correctly, so one of my favorite ways to store things like green onions is to store them in the plastic bag they come in and then fill them with water and pop them in the refrigerator to keep them alive for much longer. or you can also fill some glass jars with water and then store them like this on your counter, although if you tend to keep your house a little warm they may not last long on your counter, you may want to keep them. in the refrigerator and you can cut them when you need them.

Another thing that also takes a lot of time when it comes to cooking is peeling the garlic and chopping it, so I like to do all that in advance and a little trick that mom taught me. What I do with garlic is I preserve it in olive oil and if you take the individual pieces of garlic and shake them in a jar very vigorously, it will make them very easy to peel and you won't have to. grind them up so that when you put them in olive oil, you can keep them in the refrigerator for about three or four days and you can use them when you need them and they won't go bad if you want your spices. so it will last you more than a week and I would recommend freezing them and a really easy way to do this is to just take an ice cube tray and chop up all the spices that you want to keep, you can mix them up if you want.

You can have garlic and parsley in one, maybe cilantro and green onions and another, and then just fill the rest of the ice, follow with extra virgin olive oil and then you can freeze it and they'll stay good for two or three months. your freezer and then you can throw it in your hot pan when you're ready to use it and my last favorite way to preserve vegetables is to pickle them. I have my own brew that I love right now, it's just apple cider. vinegar, maple syrup, a little bit of cayenne pepper and then salt seriously so good you basically just cut up any vegetable I like red onion and then let it marinate in the refrigerator for at least 24 hours and you can eat this.

Of course, if you want, you can add it to your food, to your salad, it's so good. I definitely think you should do what works for you in your family when it comes to

meal

prepping. I have tried it by dividing all my nails. in the past and while it worked it was a lot of work in advance and now with the toddler I don't have time to do that so I do things a little differently now I still like to fully cook some items in advance especially those that take a long time When cooked, like rice with quinoa, without sauce, they store well in the refrigerator for three to five days, which is great.

One thing I've started doing when it comes to cooking things that require liquid is that using bone broth instead of just regular water will not only add extra flavor to your dishes but it also adds a lot more nutrients. I also love making things like spaghetti sauce and big batches because this is one of those items that freezes very, very well and I usually do that. Freeze half and some zip-top bags. I'm perfectly portioned for four people and then the other half I'll keep in the refrigerator and can be eaten within three to five days, but a little trick that I like to do especially to get my toddler to eat vegetables is to mix a bunch of really good vegetables and add them to my spaghetti sauce, so when the time comes to eat this, we can eat the meat alone.

Whoever wanted it, it would be a complete meal. and on its own I find that things like fish and chicken don't take long to cook, what takes a long time is preparing the marinade, so I make whatever I can find. I already have it premixed and just put it in a jar. I can usually remember what exactly I need, but if you are making different marinades that look similar, you might consider putting a label on your jar so they don't get mixed up. I'll be sure to leave the ingredients for this. marinade down if you guys want it, sometimes I also like to add fresh herbs, garlic, onion, so that's why it really helps if I can do all this work in advance and then when it comes to preparing dinner, and it's very quick because my Marinade is ready and I will usually make a skillet dinner, which basically means no dirty pans.

I'll set the oven to 450 degrees and first I'll roast my vegetables in olive oil and I do that for about 15 minutes while I marinate the fish with that pre-made marinade and after those 15 minutes are up, I'll take out the pan, add my fish and then I'll cook for another 15 minutes and that's it, dinner is served. I can serve it with any salad I have prepared. During the week, our favorite dish for lunch is usually salad, so I like to make sure we have lots of options for our salads so we don't get tired of them, so one of the things I love to prepare is a fruit and vegetable . salsa I really just change it up depending on what I bought that week, sometimes I make mango salsa here.

I made a strawberry sauce, which I'll have the recipe for below, but it's basically just strawberries, cucumbers, red onions and then for the dressing we have some. sesame oil, some sesame seeds, balsamic vinegar and what I love about making sauces is that you can add them to your salad and they can actually replace your dressing because it starts to release its own juices from the fruits and vegetables or you can also Add this on top of your chicken or on top of your fish to add lots of flavor. I also make sure I have other options that don't have any kind of vinegar just so they're a little more versatile and I can actually eat them all day long if I want if I don't want to eat them in a salad so this is one of my go-tos. favorites, which is just tomatoes and mozzarella.

I'll add a little basil. I also make sure. have a lot of ingredients on hand and I like to store them in the refrigerator to keep them fresh for much longer. I like to save things like nuts, sliced ​​almonds, and cashews and keeping them in an airtight jar makes them last much longer, which I really appreciate if you guys have never made your own dressing at home or don't know where to start, you feel like it's overwhelming. , all you have to remember is the base of the dressing, which is basically one part active and two parts oil, so in this case the active is my balsamic vinegar and I'm using 1/4 cup and then for the oil I'm using extra virgin olive oil and I'm using half a cup of that, you can increase it from there.

You can add salt and pepper, you can add Dijon mustard, garlic, onion, have fun with this if you don't have any type of vinegar. Lemons also count as acidic, so you can do 1/4 cup of lemon and then 1/2. a cup of extra virgin olive oil on muffington is your best friend when it comes to preparing breakfast foods. I love making egg bites because you can customize them for everyone in the family. You can make some with just egg whites. You can make ones without cheese others with bacon whatever your family likes if you are interested in the recipe I use I will link it below.

Basically I mix three different cheeses with a little milk and put them in a blender to make it very creamy. and then I just top it with whatever ingredients I want. If you've been following my channel for a long time, you know that one of my favorite combinations is goat cheese and sun-dried tomatoes, so I still make them to this day and they're so good, they're actually my husband's favorite and It prepares them for about 15 to 17 minutes and you can do many other things while they cook in the oven. They are great to grab and go if you are someone who is always on the go or if you are at home, what I love to do is turn them into little tacos.

I love these sprouted corn tortillas because they are so much healthier for you and will just warm you up. I'll add a little bit of egg. black beans, some spicy avocado cilantro salsa and I have a

healthy

breakfast taco that took me less than five minutes so I hope you enjoy these meal prep

hacks

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