It happens to me fairly often. Usually, it’s with food I find less than appetizing, but it’s not bad by any means. I think the problem stems from the fact that I cooked for about 8 years for my job. There was a lot of standing and eating, tasting dishes as I went, cooking food that I was never going to eat while I was hungry, etc…
Does anyone else share this problem?
What if you cooked meals that freeze well. Then you could cook some meals, and freeze into portions.
When you get hungry, heat and eat. Separate the cooking and eating stages?
Meal prepping always has been something I would like to do. I’m getting to a point in life where I can work that into how I do things as well. I just have to figure out some dishes, that like you said freeze well. Any suggestions?
I tend to find the saucier or sloppier a dish is, the better it freezes. I also avoid chicken as I don’t think it comes out very nice after cooking, freezing, and reheating.
Minced meats work well. Lasagne, moussaka, bolognese (cook the spaghetti at time of eating, don’t freeze it).
Also stews, pulled pork, or other slow cooked food. If you use a slow cooker, most of what you cook in there is probably good for freezing.
In general I prefer to cook vegetables, pasta, rice, etc at the time of eating and then eat with the reheated food, because they don’t really taste that nice after being frozen and reheated, but it should be pretty quick to do those and don’t really need much work.
I get what you’re saying. The entree gets frozen, but grains and veggies should be cooked when preparing it to eat. That sounds easy enough, heavy lifting is done and pasta/rice/veggies are really easy. Thanks for the tip!
No problem!
Personally I don’t do a full meal prep day, I just cook 3x more than I need and freeze the extra. By the time you’ve gone to the effort of cooking what you need, cooking a much bigger batch generally isn’t that much extra work. That way I only have to cook a few times a week yet get home cooked meals every day, and also get different things each day (not 7 days of lasagne).