any tips on best foods/meals that can be premade for the week ahead?

thehamo

Hey so im just wondering. If I have most of my meals planned out and premade, it will help me no end in sticking to an eating plan. But which foods/meals can be cooked and stored for the week. For example, any time i've made a salad, its gone limp and soggy by the next morning.

So any hints tips? Breakfast I suppose not so much as im a wheetabix person which is fairly premade as it is. More so Lunch and dinner.

thanks.

Sapsorrow

Literally anything that can be frozen.
You could do batchs of pancakes (I use buckwheat, chickpea, oat of spelt flour) and leave em in the fridge to make savory and sweet wraps with for lunch etc.. should last 3 days as you don't need eggs for the batter.
Soups and stews are easy as the texture and general structure of the food is unimportant and they're easy to reheat.
I do big batchs of sauces and gravies and either freeze em or jsut leave them in the fridge to use with random meals over the course of a few days.

Piste

You could make up a big batch of Spaghetti Bolognese sauce and freeze it in individual portions. Then if you're having pasta all you have to do is cook your pasta and stick your sauce in the fridge.

thehamo

good options guys. Thanks. What about lunch ideas? Any tips on keeping salads fresh. Any time i buy lettuce it seems to go limp in a day! very irritating!

Sapsorrow

thehamo wrote: »

good options guys. Thanks. What about lunch ideas? Any tips on keeping salads fresh. Any time i buy lettuce it seems to go limp in a day! very irritating!

Buy crispier varieties like iceberg and maybe some rocket and baby leaf spinach to jazz it up a bit. Don't put the dressing on until right before you eat it. Keep the leaves in zip locked bags in the fridge with most of the air gently pressed out.
Vegetable crudite (carrots, baby corn, sugarsnap peas, celery, cucumber, bell red pepper, baby courgettes, baby tomatos) with hummous are good and easy to carry around. Hummous can be made in big batchs and put in little tupperwear containers and frozen. So easy to make too.
Buy a soup thermos in Argos and breing soup, stew, risotto, pasta in to work for lunch.
Buy nairns oatcakes and bring the little individual packets in with hummous, some cheese whatever.
Fruit salad with chopped nuts, seeds and yoghurt.
Homemade fritatta or quiche.

pinkypinky

Hard boil some eggs to keep in the fridge. Can be eaten in a sambo or chopped up with mayo. They'll keep for a few days.

rubadub

thehamo wrote: »

good options guys. Thanks. What about lunch ideas? Any tips on keeping salads fresh. Any time i buy lettuce it seems to go limp in a day! very irritating!

Buy whole icebergs, the ones ready chopped up last only a short time, the full one is cheaper too.

I save all my jars of cooking sauces, then I fill the jars with stuff I make, some stores well, like curry & rice, chilli & rice & kidney beans, spag bol. An almost full jar of sauce & rice/pasta is about the right portion size for most people, they can be frozen so you can pick and choose once you have a collection built up (i.e. no need to have curry all week). Just do not overfill them or they will break the glass when frozen. Anything with lots of sauce will freeze and microwave fairly well.