/ck/ - Food & Cooking

It's good that OP has so much free time every day to prepare freshly cooked meals three times a day! I suppose if I didn't have to work and earn my own living instead of suckling on mom's tit until my late 20's, I would also have that free time to have the same opinion as OP.

Sadly, I do have to pay my own rent and bills and make my own food plans and that usually does include meal prepping. I don't really have a set schedule or strict daily plan. I just make large quantities of things and put them in containers so that I have a choice to make when I prepare to leave in the morning.

I'll make a big pot of spaghetti and some mashed potatoes and pork chops, and some chicken thighs and salads and make lots of other smaller containers of fruit, pickles and condiments and shit and every day I figure out what sounds good for lunch and put it in my bag.

It's not routine. It changes up every week. There's no burn out from eating chicken breasts and broccoli every damn day.

If OP is against meal prep, then it's probably because he's not done it properly or been exposed to more creative ideas and thinking. You should give it another try, OP. Your imagination is your only limitation here.