The Ultimate Meal-Prep Cookbook: One Grocery List. A Week of Meals. No Waste.

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Turn meal prep aspirations into a reality with this 25-week meal planning cookbook—where 1 short grocery list gets you 5 weeknight dinners you can make in 45 minutes or less!

Meal prep no longer means filling your freezer with boring casseroles or spending every Sunday cooking. We’ve done the work of building 25 smart weekly meal plans that minimize shopping and kitchen time—so you make your life easier, your grocery bill lower, and your dinners better.
 
Includes features that streamline meal planning:
• Weekly grocery lists max out at a dozen items.
• Active cooking time for recipes maxes out at 45 minutes.
• Loads of pantry substitution suggestions let you adapt recipes for what you have on hand.
• 30 pantry meals make meal planning even more flexible

ATK’s meal plan strategies are easy to put into practice:
• Prep your vegetables and grains for the week in a weekend “power hour.”
• Prep bulk pantry ingredients ahead in a “pantry power hour.”
• Cross-utilize fresh ingredients creatively to prevent food waste and dinner boredom.
• Make, store, and reheat full meals with no loss of flavor.
• Double meals or meal components to freeze half for later.
 
Plus, get insights on building and maximizing a diverse pantry; food storage strategies; essential meal prep equipment; and more! Full of smart, practical advice for saving time, money, and waste, The Ultimate Meal-Prep Cookbook makes meal planning accessible for everyone!

From the Publisher

The Ultimate Meal-Prep Cookbook

Turn meal prep inspirations into reality

EGGS in PURGATORY

The Test Kitchen’s top tips for meal preppers

A few of our tips include:

Make a weekly shopping list Put a date on it Bulk it up Develop labeling savvy Bring TV dinners into the 21st century

25 Weekly Kitchen Meal Plans

Our 25 weekly kitchen meal plans strike just the right balance between guidance and flexibility so that you can customize them to fit your preferences and ever-changing schedule. Maximizing prep-ahead options, make-ahead options, and ingredient substitutions while minimizing shopping, food waste, and time spent in the kitchen lets you strategize appealing, practical meal plans that truly make your life easier and your meals more enjoyable.

Ingredient Prep School Prep and Freeze Substitute with Confidence The Test Kitchen’s Top Tips for Meal Preppers Make the Most of Your Microwave Essential Equipment for Meal Prep How to Prep a Meal Building-Block Recipes

Winning Strategies for Meal-Prep Success

“What’s for dinner?” Whether a family member is asking you or you’re just silently asking yourself, if that question gives you a sinking feeling then you need this book. With the constant schedule juggling that we all do, meal planning and meal prep are invaluable skills to master if you want to avoid eating takeout every night.

Efficient meal preppers take advantage of multiple strategies. Depending on your preferences and your available time in any given week, there are many different ways to customize meal prep.

Plan intensive ingredient prep-ahead sessions

Possibly the most valuable meal-prep habit to adopt is a “Sunday power hour,” during which time you can get well ahead of the weeknight scramble by completing as much advance kitchen work as possible.

Avoid food waste by cross-utilizing fresh ingredients

We designed these meal plans to use a limited number of ingredients in creative ways throughout the week. If you decide to experiment with creating your own plans, try to map out ways to efficiently use up what you buy at the grocery store while still keeping meals varied.

Store assembled meal components together

If prepped ingredients get cooked together, you can store them together. Our foil packet recipes, where the assembled ingredients become an entire meal, take this concept a step further.

Double recipes for “freezer insurance” or intentional leftovers

We tell you when a recipe doubles well for freezing. This doubling principle also applies to meal components, even if you can’t freeze them.

Meal Plan Sneak Peak: Each Plan contains 5 Meals, including a suggested pantry recipe as the fifth meal

Meal 1: Bibb Lettuce and Chicken Salad with Peanut Dressing

Prep Ahead: Wash lettuce leaves, cut cucumber, slice hot cherry peppers, wash and pick mint

Make Ahead: Refrigerate seared chicken and peanut dressing for up to 2 days

Substitutions: Almond butter for peanut butter, any soft lettuce for Bibb lettuce, basil for mint

Meal 2: Rib-Eye Steaks with Roasted Vegetables and Sage Butter

Prep Ahead: Wash and pick sage, grate lemon zest, peel and halve carrots, halve potatoes and shallots

Make Ahead: Refrigerate sage butter for up to 2 days

Substitutions: red onion for shallots, vegetable oil or extra-virgin olive oil for butter, strip steaks for rib-eyes

Meal 3: Seared Scallops with Squash Puree and Sage Butter

Prep Ahead: peel, seed and cut butternut squash, mince shallot, wash and pick sage, juice lemon

Make Ahead: Refrigerate squash puree for up to 3 days

Substitutions: extra-large shrimp for scallops

Meal 4: Spinach-Stuffed Portobello Caps

Prep Ahead: Remove mushroom gills, grate lemon zest, wash and pick mint

Make Ahead: Refrigerate baked stuffed Portobello caps for up to 3 days

Substitutions: frozen spinach for baby spinach, goat cheese for feta, scallions for mint

Publisher ‏ : ‎ America’s Test Kitchen
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 2 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1948703580
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1948703581
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 872 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 20.3 x 1.7 x 24.5 cm
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