Mommy, Can We Meal Prep?
Mommy, Can We Meal Prep?

The question my 5 year old asks me every Sunday

Photo by Ella Olsson on Unsplash

Last December, I met two friends at Top Golf to catch up. We commiserated about our weight gain. We made a plan to sign up at a local gym together, wake up at 4:30 a.m. and meet at 5 a.m. before the children woke up and our daily madness began.

I needed to lose weight for a Jiu Jitsu tournament in April, my friends opted to for personal reasons. We were no strangers to exercising, and not with exercising together either, as we met at Cross Fit several years ago. A couple weeks into our work out regimen, we started ordering lunches from a meal service. Two weeks after that, we opted to make our own meals instead. We went full fledged. Each one of us cooked two meals every Sunday and exchanged them at the gym the following morning.

It took the guess work out of lunch and made life easier. I was excited to try what my friends made. Each Friday, I’d plan my meals before going to the grocery store. We evolved into tracking macros for meals as well. It was a fun learning process since we did it together.

On Sunday, I’d cook in the morning to get it out of the way. I’d watch meal prep videos on You Tube during the week to plan out what I was going to make. My daughter watched with me. She quickly became excited about watching the videos and preparing meals together.

My son has the same personality as me. My daughter, while she looks like me, has her father’s personality. I struggled to find something that tied us together aside from both being girls. Meal prep bonded us. Though I started prepping to lose weight, I continued because of how much my daughter enjoyed the process.
['Ren D']
['Health', 'Lifestyle', 'Healthy Eating', 'Motherhood', 'Parenting']