Meal prepping for our family

Meal prepping may not have made as much sense for a family of 15 but for a family of two that grew to be a family of three … and now about to be a family of 5… it has absolutely changed our lives.

I became a stay at home mom at 19 years old, and one of the number one things I decided was that I wasn’t going to live a life that I hated.

I wasn’t going to live a life of complaining about never getting out of the house or always slaving away cooking and cleaning for my family. Although I do genuinely enjoy cooking and baking, and have gotten better and better at it over the years I also learned that I don’t like being in the kitchen 3 to 5 times a day, and also having to clean, said kitchen 3 to 5 times per day.

This is when I started implementing meal prepping.

Instead of making chicken fried rice for a few people, I made quadrupled in size so that we could eat at 3 to 4 times during the week. Instead of making a batch of chili that would last for dinner, I would quadruple the amount of ingredients I needed, and set some aside for the rest of the week and put a portion in the freezer for another day.

Not only has this freed up so much time for me and enough time that I was able to pursue an open my photography business but it has also improve the health of the family now that we have healthy meals on hand for the entire family throughout the entire week without needing to rely on frozen pizzas or take out on busy days.

This also helps greatly reduce the mess that was being made since a majority of the mess now is only made once a week during meal prepping day.

What is something that you started doing to improve the lives of yourself and your family?

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