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I am a meal prepper, and it's important to me.

>> No.17401596

>>17401584
i'm european so my fridge holds 50cmcm^3 max and i can't fit more than two lemons and a banana in my freezer

>> No.17401597

>>17401584
Isn't it just hoarding but of prepared meals?

>> No.17401620

>>17401584
I understand making a big portion and eating leftovers but I don't understand putting your leftovers in separate containers where they will oxidize more rapidly and force you to wash more stuff

>> No.17401624

>>17401620
you throw these away when done.

>> No.17401635

>>17401624
no, they are washable and reusable

>>17401620
you portion them out so you dont have to do that work when you actually eat them, you literally just grab them and heat them up and eat them.
you don't really have to wash more stuff since you arent using a plate

>> No.17401683

>>17401584
This shit is gross. I get cooking food for like 3 days in advance, but a whole week? You're eating week-old leftovers. Disgusting.

>> No.17401696

>>17401584
>living like a bug to save a couple of cents a day
Honestly I would unironically kill myself if I wasn't able to enjoy a nice fresh hot meal every day. Imagine eating leftovers your whole life lmao literally a bug

>> No.17401698

>>17401596
why would you freeze lemons or a banana

>> No.17401719

>>17401698
i like to treat myself with a banana for christmas but i can only get them during summer

>> No.17401727

>>17401584
more like you're a PRePer haha faggot

>> No.17401744

>>17401719
Oh my God. Do Europeans really?

>> No.17401755

>>17401584
What's the point of this other than reddit points?
By the third day food starts tasting off and gross

>> No.17401756

>>17401696
i was cooking hot meals every night for a while, it was nice, but i need to maximize my efficiency right now

not cooking during the week gives me so much more time

plus it makes it easier to make sure i get my macronutrients/micronutrients

>> No.17401758

>>17401756
>gives me so much more time
mr budybody over here

>> No.17401759

>>17401584
There isn't a better way to lose weight than if you were an inmate birkenau. Seriously. The most weight I ever lost was making meals in advance.

>> No.17401764

>>17401744
those poor, simpleton bastards

>> No.17401772

>>17401698
My mom froze a lemon once because it had a little bud on it and it looked like a yellow submarine. She called it her john lemon

>> No.17401773

>>17401683
depends what you're cooking
frozen cooked mince will still be great quality after a month or two

>> No.17401777

>>17401756
If you don't have 15 spare minutes in your day for dinner prep your life is fucked

>> No.17401804

>>17401756
Time for what? Shitposting on 4chan?
Why do meal preppers pretend to be busy all the time when they obviously have time to shitpost on 4chan and post their shitty fodd on reddit?

This being said if you are actually busy, I'm assuming working, you should be able to sustain a wife who cooks for you or buy pre made food at a restaurant or have it delivered. If you are poor then you should have enough time to make a nice meal for yourself every day.
It seems like you are both poor and have no time, on top of not even having a wife to cook for you so you have to eat leftovers every day. What a miserable existence

>> No.17401834

>>17401804
i was sick today but my day normally looks like this

>7:30 wake up and get ready for work
>8:30 - 5 pm go to work
>5:30 to 6:30 pm work out
>6:45 to 7:15 eat dinner
>7:15 to 9:30 independent study (currently learning C++ & unreal engine)
>9:30 to 10:00 pm relax
>10:00 pm to 10:15 pm get ready for bed
>10:30 pm sleep

>> No.17401858

>>17401834
this guy taking 30 minutes to eat a pre-cooked meal

>> No.17401863

>>17401858
i try to eat slowly to allow for better digestion

>> No.17402197

Meal prep is really fucking depressing, and unless you have very specific fitness goals or severe allergies, you're a faggot.

That said, >>17401804 is a fucking idiot too. Getting time in your day to relax, no matter what you like doing like shitposting here, is important. And getting married to some broad just to have her cook for you is a quick cruising for a divorce where she takes half of your assets and your kids resent you, making the work pointless in the first place.

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>>17401834
it takes you 8.5 hours to get to work? are you chinese?

>> No.17402235

Everyone calling OP a fag for meal prepping is probably a fat amerilard who Uber eats fast food while watching their wife get jamal'd desu

>> No.17402243

don't people do this to not spread hiv? or am i remembering a nonsense fact

>> No.17402252

>>17401683
Same. I only cook 3-4 times per week. Usually I cook enough food for 2 days. The best way to meal prep is baking, it saves me a lot of time.

>> No.17402258

>>17402197
trying to lose 15 lbs while eating at least 165 grams of protein per day from mostly vegan and non-soy sources. My cholesterol and blood sugar are also on the high end of normal so trying to eat as little saturated fat as possible and only low glycemic carbs

meal prepping keeps me from cheating

>> No.17402308

>>17401834
I spend my evenings learnimg various game engines too.

>> No.17402311

>>17401584
I bet you're a bull prepper too you fucking faggot

>> No.17402313

>>17402258
>mostly vegan
There it is. You are a faggot that can't even suck dick.

>> No.17402316

I'm a leftovers eater, and it's better than starving or ordering takeaway.

>> No.17402317

>>17402313
what’s wrong with eating mostly vegan

>> No.17402319

>>17401755
I like the idea of meal prepping but cooked chicken just tastes disgusting after only a day in the fridge. I mostly make quick meals like eggs or canned beans in a tortilla to cope with going to work.

>> No.17402343

>>17401719
based yuropoor

>> No.17402625

>>17401683
do you have a freezer?

>> No.17402669

>>17401584
anyone who prepares meals is a meal prepper though

>> No.17402694

>>17401635
>no, they are washable and reusable
>>17401756
>it makes it easier to make sure i get my macronutrients/micronutrients/ microplastics

these are retarded, anon, you're eating so much plastic. If you insist on impersonating an autist at least get glass containers

is it really too hard to scoop food onto a plate when you're ready to eat? kek

>> No.17402696

>>17401683
1 day or 1 week doesn't matter if you freeze it.

>> No.17402703

>>17402694
>NOOOO YOU CANT HECKIN USE PLASTIC IT MAGICALLY LEECHES INTO EVERYTHIIIING
You ever take a chemistry class bud?

>> No.17402708

>>17402703
no don't say that, next he'll talk about canola oil, corn syrup and MSG.

>> No.17402709

>>17402696
>if you freeze it

it will taste even worse since you don't have a flash freezer and the food wasn't prepped to be frozen kek

your meat will be dry and hard and the veg will be mush with a nice puddle of water because the ice crystals destroyed the food when you froze it and all of the water separated from the food.

>> No.17402714

>>17402703
>You ever take a chemistry class bud?
yes

>acidic foods
>constantly heat cycling
>literally grinding plastic off the edges from manipulating the lid

NGMI kiddo

>> No.17402715

>>17402317
Talk to any vegan in the world and they will tell you there's no such thing as mostly vegan and you should either slit your wrists or never look at something that once made contact with an animal again.

>> No.17402717

>>17402714
you're already breathing it in every moment, cope

>> No.17402722

>>17402709
Tastes fine, it's not an issue

>> No.17402727

>>17402717

imagine being this much of a pathetic loser, kek

>>17402722
>Tastes fine

pathetic

>> No.17402734

>>17401834
>he's a gamedev
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>> No.17402759

>>17401719
Dude you noticed the Berlin wall fell, right?

>> No.17402760

>>17402727
>reddit spacing

>> No.17402784

meal prep seems like something you do because you just think it's a fun idea. I honestly can't imagine a lifestyle where you want to cook but you're so busy that you can't at least get like a half hour a day to boil some potatos and fry a pork chop, so meal prep on like your one free afternoon each moth is your only option.

>> No.17402786

>>17402784
I'd rather spend that half hour on something else

>> No.17402942

>>17401834
>>9:30 to 10:00 pm relax
suicide tier that you only have 30 minutes to relax a day

>> No.17403089

>>17401584
Doesn't most cooked food usually last for about 3 days?

>> No.17403112

>>17402714
you have never had a chemistry class in your life, chud.
>ngmi
anyone typing like that is never going to have sex in their lives.

>> No.17403116

>>17402317
Calling a diet 'mostly vegan' is pretentious bullshit. You're a vegetarian for all intents and purposes, except it's not special enough for you.

Not to mention that you are the type of person that portions out his food a week in advance. Which means you aren't eating fresh vegetables.

Then you also use a bunch of plastic containers to sort your neat, little portions. Instead of leaving your food in a big pot and taking what you need, you waste time and fridge space on neuroticism for supposed efficiency.

It's clear that you don't like food. You want to automate the whole process, more concerned with meeting numbers in a spreadsheet than taste and enjoyment. Instead of popping supplements, eat fresh food and listen to your body and its appetite.

Your unquenchable thirst for man-sperm is the only thing keeping your diet 'almost vegan'.

>> No.17403127

>>17402760
>>reddit spacing

>> No.17403133

>>17402942
thats pure relaxing, the rest of the day can also be relaxing, or are you the kind of person that considers sitting still in front of a tv for 4+ hours a day to be peak living

>> No.17403182

>>17403133
Idk dude, give me 2 hours to browse the chins and some pr0nz at least

>> No.17403449

>>17401584
I don't care about meal prep but doing it like in OP's pic is fucking retarded. Either you have cold food or microwaved sides that obviously aren't meant to be heated.

>> No.17403487

>>17403089
>Doesn't most cooked food usually last for about 3 days?

You bring up a good point and this is why meal prepping can easily become dangerous by common mistakes. The answer to your question is the food should be frozen accordingly and then taken out later. But take a look at this video which shows the fatal dangers of meal prepping.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ujTYLV2Qo4

>> No.17403911

>people think cooking a large batch of food at once constitutes a hobby
I fucking hate leddit so much.

>> No.17403936

>>17401698
I'm freezing my bananas right now cause they rot fast as fuck

>> No.17403962

>>17403487
In the video they say he left the food IN ROOM TEMPERATURE for two days. Eating 4-5 day old pasta is nothing if its been refridgerated as soon as possible. Fucking americans.

>> No.17403975

>>17401584
doesnt it taste bad after a day or 2?

i usually get diarrhea if i dont eat the food the same day for some reason. maybe my fridge or containers are messed up. usually my fridge gets cold enough to freeze fruits.

>> No.17403981

>>17403487
COOKBRO I TALKED ABOUT THIS GUYS CHANNEL A FEW DAYS AGO! i didnt know u watched him too. i am also scared to meal prep and die.

>> No.17403986

>>17401804
>Time for what? Shitposting on 4chan?
Yes.

>> No.17403991

>>17402243
???????

>> No.17404030

>>17402625
>>17402696
Oh yeah, let me just stuck non-air tight containers in the freezer for a week, after which I will microwave the cooked frozen vegetables and protein. I'm sure that'll taste amazing.
Did you really think "just freeze it bro" was a good argument?

>> No.17404186

>>17404030
Nothing wrong with freezers, it's a good invention

>> No.17404203

>>17402786
>I’d rather spend my time scrolling 4chan and masturbating
>cooking is a tedium

>> No.17404234

>>17403487
>>17403962
to be safe I’ve gone ahead and put anything older than 2 days in the freezer now

>> No.17404239

>>17402784
I meal prep to because I have very specific macronutrient and micronutrient targets that I’m trying to hit and meal prepping takes out the guessing work, it also gives me more free time during the week to work on other things

On the weekends I cook for enjoyment

>> No.17404467

>>17404030
You seem upset at the fact that there's an easy solution

>> No.17404942

>>17401772
Is your mom single?

>> No.17405052

>>17402759
Hello! I just wanted to let you know I laughed at your joke

>> No.17405092

>>17401584
There’s no such thing as meal prep. You’re just making food and having enough leftovers for feed you for several more meals.

>> No.17405645

>>17405052
Me2 lol banana Christmas

>> No.17405649
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>>17401584
I'm a meal prepper too.

>> No.17405652

>>17402317
Nothing. Meat is the biggest contributor to climate change and by eating at least one vegan meal a week you do a lot for the environment.

If that's what you're into, of course. I don't give a shit, I like my chicken nuggies, but there's nothing wrong with you wanting to be vegan or having a vegan meal. Do what you want.

>> No.17405661

>>17402709
I meal prepped some fajitas once. Cooked chicken in spice, put some rice in there, some cheese and stuff. Everything that was included in the recipe.

The rice was fucking gross, like eating the popped rice from genmaicha rice and the chicken was hard as fuck. It was pretty gross and it was sad.

I haven't meal prepped since.

>> No.17405668

>>17402252
Same here, I like the idea of having everything ready for a week. But there’s just something about a bubbling pot or a sizzling pan you know?

I think that’s why

>> No.17405678

>>17402715
How do vegans reconcile with the fact that no culture prior to the 20th century had a vegan diet? All meat? yes. vegetarian? Yes. Mixed grains? Yes.

But no vegan. Almost like the diet is an unnatural abomination.

>> No.17405683

>>17405652
>meat is the biggest contributor to climate change
Yeah sure I mean its not like we have been eating meat for our species entire existence, and farming animals for thousands of years. I mean sure all our environmental issues started happening after we began heavily relying on petroleum fueled industry for literally every thing and importing all our raw materials from all 4 corners of the world using vessels powered by said petroleum.

Sure a cow CAN be raised on nothing but grass, and a single cow can feed a man for several years. But eating them is bad. Cows are literally destroying the planet because this netflix documentary told me so, despite the fact that they had to retract their information because they were fucking lying. I mean, how am I supposed to feel better about myself? Are you telling me I need to maybe reconsider my industry dependent consumerist lifestyle?! Are you crazy!?!? The rest of the world can't instantly do that overnight so I'm just gonna eat this heavily processed fake meat and call it a day.

>> No.17405686
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>>17402317

>> No.17405699

>>17405683
I agree with most of your points: We live in a society that relies on processing and consumerism that is a major problem with climate change. I also agree that the processed generic "vegan" fake shit is garbage and just as bad - if not worse. It's like how some oats are sold normally and then with a Gluten-Free branding, despite both packs being packed in the same location with the same cross-contamination warning and the same kind of oat - but people will pay the extra dollar for the branding of gluten-free. Sucker's born everyday.

I think that replacing meat with fake-meat sensationalized foodstuffs is just as bad. It's why I think we should move towards a more green-based diet with chickpeas and other such vegetables. A proper vegan moves away from the shitty "fake cheese sauce" and the "vegan mozzarella" shit really quickly because it's garbage and there's so many better options.

>> No.17405700

>>17401698
freezing bananas that aren't ripe/sweet makes them instant sweet. Idk about the lemon though

>> No.17405724

>>17405678
>OLD GOOD NEW BAD

>> No.17405769
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>>17405699
>a proper vegan
I have never met a proper fucking vegan. They either eat the fake meat or claim they don't and then secretly eat the fake meat.

There are even certain whole foods and supplements that contradict veganisms ethics.

I can definitely tell you what is better than fake cheese. Real cheese, that comes from a healthy and comfortable ruminant who is fed a diet so high in quality she couldn't even dream of getting without the aid of humans. And the person who makes the cheese puts their heart and soul into it using ancestral knowledge, combined with alchemy and art to create something so incredible you never forget it. You haven't lived until you've had cheese with a story behind it.

>> No.17405811

>>17401596
>cmcm^3
nice units retard

>> No.17405815

>>17405724
>NEW GOOD OLD BAD

>> No.17405816

>>17401719
kek'd

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>>17405724
Yes

>> No.17405897

cooking is a fucking stupid waste of time. eat oats, peanut butter, and milk. every day.

>> No.17405903

>>17405897
>cooking is a stupid waste of time
>spends time on the cooking board on 4 chan.

>> No.17405921

>>17405903
somebody needs to tell you nerds what's what

>> No.17405923

>>17405897
you don't really do that

>> No.17406011

>>17405769
Eating fake meat is still vegan you schizo

>> No.17406165

>>17405923
Not same anon but I eat 6-8 bread buns a day, drink half a litre of yoghurt and eat 6 thin sausages, cold. That is my comfort food.

>> No.17406168

>>17406165
Autism

>> No.17406180

>>17401584
>plastic meal prep containers
enjoy your phytoestrogen dressing, goy

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>>17402714
The retard is truly a fascinating creature

>> No.17406196

>>17406165
what why

>> No.17406214

>>17406196
I like eating buns and drinking yoghurt, no idea why but that combo is based. Thin sausages for some protein, cold because they're better cold than boiled and I'm usually in no mood to grill them.

>> No.17406222

>>17406214
What other autistic tendencies do you have
Aversion to hot liquids
Certain noises
Certain textures

>> No.17406261

>>17401584
Do you think Tim Pool is a meal prepper?

>> No.17406352

>>17401584
Hell yeah, 28 servings of dry ass chicken. My favorite!

>> No.17406392

>>17402235
You're stupid as fuck, you know that? The majority of food preppers you see online are Americans, you moronic faggot. kys

>> No.17406412

>>17406011
Veganism is literally unnatural for humans, you fucking faggot. Every single "raw vegan only" bodybuilder/expert has to supplement with artificially extracted chemicals that they would get from meat because THERE ARE AMINO ACIDS AND NUTRIENTS THAT LITERALLY DO NOT COME FROM PLANTS ALONE that humans - read it again - HUMANS - require to be optimally healthy. Humans are not herbivores, they are omnivores. They were hunter/gatherers that ate whatever fucking roots, berries, fruit etc. was in season. Even after they settled down and started practicing agriculture, they still raised and hunted animals and they still mostly ate what was in season that they didn't ferment or dehydrate. Fuck off, stupid faggot. People that claim that free-range, natural pastoral animal husbandry is bad are literally evil and a blight to humanity.

>> No.17406484

>>17406412
Source on the amino acids? I thought vegan bodybuilders supplemented them because the concentration of protein in plants is too low for maximum gains unless you isolate it, not because specific amino acids were missing. That's what the complete protein meme is about.

>> No.17406501

watch this if you want to be sure of going to heaven anons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpOv_kvk4M8&t=1s&ab_channel=BaptistBiblePreaching

>> No.17406663

meal prep then die? no thanks

>> No.17407174

>>17406484
the anon you are replying to is hopelessly incorrect
there are vegan sources of complete proteins, and a lot of vegan sources of protein complement each other to provide complete protein -- beans and rice, for example

non-vegan body builders also supplement with artificially extracted chemicals, that's part of being a body builder since a normal diet can't really produce the results they're looking for.

that being said, obviously getting a lot of complete protein from only vegan sources is much more difficult in comparison to getting it from animal sources

I always like to end with this reminder: a lot of the people you are talking to on this website, and on the internet in general, are genuinely autistic. Not meme autistic, but actually neurodivergent autistic. And, it's extremely important to remember: autistic people are LITERALLY retarded.

>> No.17407208

>>17407174
I know he's wrong. That's why I asked him for a source, explained why vegan bodybuilders actually use isolates, and hinted he should look up what a complete protein source is.

Beans and rice is a dumb meme, though. It's more carb-heavy than any meat, so it's hard to stay within the goldilocks zone of 50-60% carbs/30-40% fat/10-20% protein, harder to meet typical athlete protein requirements, and virtually impossible to derive a high protein weight loss diet from, without refining the protein.

>> No.17407221

>told my gf I do food prep once a week and usually plan my meals out in advance
>she got furious with me and went on a rant about how that's boring, sad, etc
I like it. It makes me feel good. Why do women hate prep?

>> No.17407259

>>17401584

Do you have any good recipes OP?

>>17404030

There's nothing wrong with a freezer. It's not "fresh" but there are trade offs to be had with saving time and wasting less food. I use these and simply fill the individual container spaces with food from various previous dinners. Sometimes I'll fill one or two spots, freeze it, then open it up again next dinner and fill the last spot from a different dinner, then stick it back in the freezer as a complete meal ready to be eat later.

>> No.17407263

>>17407208
10% protein what the fuck

>> No.17407270

>>17407259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seXAvskDO4M

>> No.17407274

>>17402759
pretty nice lol there

>> No.17407320

>>17407263
It's liveable and has low all-cause mortality rate. I go for 20%, 30% when losing weight, but 10% isn't that unreasonable.

>> No.17407323

>>17405811
>His fridge only has three spatial dimensions

>> No.17407557

>>17401719
Kek'd HARD at this, good post