{"id":283911,"date":"2026-02-14T13:50:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T13:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/283911\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T13:50:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T13:50:27","slug":"i-meal-prepped-all-of-my-meals-for-a-week-heres-what-i-learnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/283911\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I meal prepped all of my meals for a week, here&#8217;s what I learnt&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">I finish the week with very little food waste. There&#8217;s a couple of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/food\/recipes\/easy_breakfast_wrap_51903\" class=\"ssrcss-15td0ur-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">breakfast wraps<\/a> and a portion of tomato sauce still in the freezer, but they&#8217;ll help me with next week&#8217;s meals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">I gained time \u2013 it was much easier to fit in the gym knowing I&#8217;d have dinner ready in minutes. I also avoided impulse food shops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The time, cost and health benefits are undeniable but the rigidity wasn&#8217;t for me. And I missed the wind-down benefits of cooking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll be prepping all of my meals going forward, but I&#8217;ll continue to make breakfast wraps and granola, so I have a healthy start to the day. And I&#8217;ll try to have a few frozen emergency meals batch cooked, so I avoid takeaway apps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I finish the week with very little food waste. There&#8217;s a couple of breakfast wraps and a portion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[134,111,139,556,69],"class_list":["post-283911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-health","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nutrition","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}