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Start meal prepping

A ready-made journey for anyone who wants to start meal prepping: 7 steps, about 3.4 hours in all, in an order that works — work steps of 30 minutes or less, with real-world sessions kept whole.

Opens in Nextep with a two-minute first step lit. Free, and no account needed to begin.

When it's useful

When you have decided to start meal prepping but the first move is fuzzy. Nextep shows one step at a time, keeps the rest in order, and never calls anything overdue — a day that slips simply becomes today.

The steps

1. 1Pick 3 meals you would actually eat all week20 min
2. 2Write the shopping list from the recipes20 min
3. 3Check what you already have15 min
4. 4Do the shoptime block · 45 min
5. 5Prep and cook in one sessiontime block · 60 min
6. 6Portion and label everything30 min
7. 7Review on Friday: what got eaten?15 min

Work steps over 30 minutes are split into parts when you start, so they fit somewhere in a day; sessions — a run, an appointment, a call — stay whole.