I am so excited to finally share a meal prepping video with you!
When I wrote my blog post about how I meal prep for the week, I knew I wanted to make it more practical by actually sharing a menu and what I did to meal prep. I hope filming this video will be very helpful for you and make this meal prepping idea more clear for you. I tried to share lots of tips in it for you, not just the chopping and storing of ingredients.
I had so much fun filming it. It felt like I was hanging out in my kitchen with all of you while I got some work done and got our family prepared with lots of meals for the coming week. A big shout out to my husband who filmed the video, to my amazing 2 (almost 3 year old), who was such a trooper and did such a good job playing quietly in the background and my 1-year-old who took a really nice long nap while all of that was going on.
Here's the Menu Plan for the food I was prepping, click on the titles for all the recipes:
- Homemade Bread
- Steamed Sweet Potato (a few lunch/snack options for my 1 year old)
- Oatmeal - I usually make double the amount, but I only had 1 cup of milk left; we were running low on groceries when I was filming this:). Recipe for Oatmeal in the Instant Pot: 1 cup steel cut oats, 1 cup milk, 2 cups water, ¼ teaspoon salt; cook on manual high pressure, 13 minutes
- Rugelach Cookie Dough
- Creamy Tomato Soup
- Mushroom Barley Soup
- Chicken Scampi
- Burrito Bowls
- Roasted Zucchini
- Crunchy Cabbage Corn Salad
- Tomato Salsa from canned tomatoes OR here's a phenomenal fresh tomato salsa/Pico de Gallo recipe
- Storing Fresh Herbs
Other Recipes Mentioned:
Homemade Poppy Seed Filling for the Rugelach cookies
Seasoned Breadcrumbs for the Chicken Scampi:
1 ½ - 2 cups panko breadcrumbs
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon onion powder
1-2 teaspoons dry herbs mixtures (I used onion salt from Trader Joe's and chicken seasoning) (if they have added salt, use less salt)
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon ground black pepper
⅓ cup Parmesan cheese
½ - 1 Tablespoon fresh parsley, minced
Olga thank you, thank you, thank you so much for this video! I live alone and ever since I moved out of my parents home I've had a hard time buying groceries for just me and ended up throwing away so much food. Your videos about meal planning and cutting down food waste were really helpful and I've started to totally rethink the way I grocery shop and plan meals for work and have stopped throwing things away. You're definitely an inspiration! Thanks again!
Hi Olga thank you for the video, so helpful and made me want to meal prep too...and it really does help ALOT. One question, I dont have a instant pot. Will I get the same result for the oatmeal if I make it on stove top?
Hi Smitha. I'm so glad this video was helpful for you.
When cooking oatmeal on the stovetop, you will need to cook it much longer. Here's a recipe for the stovetop version: Oatmeal Recipe
Thank you