Weekly meal prep can be a weekly torture if you are not someone who enjoys the kitchen. It can literally be such a struggle to spend hours in the kitchen prepping for the week. Maybe you don’t meal prep at all because of the time it takes. This article will give you 5 different recipes, one for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and two snacks, that you can prep in under 1 hour. That is going to be 25 meals in less than an hour. No weird ingredients, no complicated recipes. Simple and easy! Let’s dive into weekly meal prep together!
Breakfast: Coconut Blueberry Overnight Oats
Ingredients for 5 servings:
- 10 tbsp unsweetened flaked coconut
- 2.5 cups of rolled oats uncooked (not minute oats)
- 5 scoops of vanilla protein powder
- 2.5 cups unsweetened vanilla almond milk
- 2.5 cups fresh blueberries
Directions:
- Set out 5 2 cup glass jars (I like to use wide-mouth mason jars) with covers.
- Put 1/2 cup oats into each jar.
- Add 1 scoop protein powder to each jar.
- Add 1/2 cup almond milk to each jar (add more if you like your oats soupy)
- Mix the ingredients together.
- Top each jar with 1/2 cup blueberries and 2 tbsp coconut flakes.
Total Time: 10 minutes
Nutrition Facts: 
Snack 1: Greek Yogurt + Granola
Ingredients for 5 servings:
- 5 single serve greek yogurts, any flavor (I like to buy the olkos tripe zero or the light and fit that has no artificial sweeteners)
- 2.5 cups of low sugar granola (for the purposes of this recipe, I use Julian Bakery ProGranola) its high fiber, low sugar, lower calorie
Directions:
- Measure out 1/2 cup granola into 5 separate containers (plastic baggies or tupperware)
- The best part about the yogurts is that they are all done 😀
Total Time: 5 minutes
Nutrition Facts: 
Lunch: Mexican Inspired Rice Bowls
Ingredients for 5 servings:
- 20 ounce 93% ground turkey, scrambled
- 1.25 cups frozen corn
- 1.25 cups black beans
- 2.5 cups minute brown rice, cooked.
- 5 tbsp guac
- 5 tbsp salsa
Directions:
- Scramble turkey in a saucepan until entirely cooked (about 10m), season with salt and pepper
- Cook brown rice so that you get 2.5 cups cooked. I do this at the same time I am cooking the turkey.
- Set out either 5 Tupperware containers or 5 2 cup glass jars.
- Place 4 ounces of turkey in each container.
- Add 1/2 cup rice in each container.
- Place 1/4 cup black beans in each container.
- Add 1/4 cup corn in each container.
- In a small separate container, place salsa and guac.
Total Time: 20 minutes
Nutrition Facts: 
Snack 2: Cobb Medly
Ingredients for 5 servings:
- 10 boiled eggs
- 10 ounces ham, chopped
- 20 cherry tomatos
- 2 large cucumbers
- 2 bell peppers
Directions:
- Boil the eggs (you can also buy preboiled eggs)
- Chop up a precooked ham steak into slices or chunks.
- Slice cucumbers and bell peppers.
- Set out 5 glass jars or 5 Tupperware containers.
- Add 2 boiled eggs, 2 ounces of ham, 5 cherry tomatoes, 1/5 of the cucumber slices and 1/5 of the bell pepper slices to each container.
Total Time: 15 minutes
Nutrition Facts: 
Dinner: Hamburger Scramble
Ingredients for 5 servings:
- 20 ounces lean ground beef (91%)
- 1 onion
- 2 green bell peppers
- 1.25 cup low fat shredded cheddar
- 2.5 cups brown rice
Directions:
- Chop onion and bell peppers.
- In a saucepan, scramble beef, onion, and bell pepper until the onion is translucent and the beef is cooked.
- While the meat is cooking, cook the minute brown rice.
- Add the brown rice and cheese to the saucepan.
- Set out 5 containers.
- Add a 1/5 of the meat and rice scramble to the jars.
- Top with your chosen condiments!
Total Time: 20 minutes
Nutrition Facts: 
Total Time: 70 minutes
Daily Nutrition Total: 1,730 calories, 169g carbs, 58g fat, 156g protein
I understand how overwhelming weekly meal prep can be. Time is a very valuable entity, and we want to make the most of it. This meal plan will give you 25 healthy meals in under 90 minutes. How can you beat that? Those extra hours that are shaved off your weekly meal prep can be spent in a bubble bath with a good book and a glass of wine, or just taking a nap. With this weekly meal prep plan, you can use the dinner for the lunch or vice versa, or use snack 1 for snack two, etc. Make this plan yours! Drop your favorite meal from above in the comments below!
