
Learn practical meal planning and prep with a coach who blends hospitality know-how and nutrition insights, building realistic habits through organized systems and a full meal-prep walkthrough.
Explore bonus PDFs for meal prep and planning, including a weekly planning sheet, grocery shopping lists, quick recipe ingredients, a zone guide, and a meal planning safe temperature guide.
Learn step one of meal prep using the list method to map specific meals you enjoy in ten minutes, organizing breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks, with ideas for easy options.
Select a week's meals by reviewing your pantry and freezer, start with one familiar dish, and plan around your schedule to avoid overplanning while gradually adding new options.
Organize your grocery list by sections: produce, meats, dairy, frozen, pantry to speed shopping. Use shortcuts like rotisserie chicken and plan delivery or pickup plus meal prep 1–2 days ahead.
Prepare to cook by preheating the oven and readying appliances, clearing counter space, and organizing five zones—ingredients, utensils, staging, cooling and packaging, and dirty dishes—for efficient meal prep.
Start by cooking proteins first, then assemble rice, chicken, and veggies while everything is ready before packaging. Sanitize surfaces, use zones to speed prep, and log meals in MyFitnessPal.
Learn how monthly protein prep streamlines weekly meals by bulk-cooking chicken breast and other proteins, then freezing sliced, one-pound portions seasoned with salt, pepper, and garlic.
Discover a practical meal prep workflow in a home kitchen, using zones for ingredients, prepping, oven staging, cooling, and packaging.
Learn to assemble four salads in this meal prep walk through part 2, featuring a shrimp salad with roasted peppers, asparagus, feta, and balsamic vinaigrette.
Learn to prep and roast veg; trim asparagus, cut into thirds, then roast with peppers, cauliflower, and Brussels sprouts using parchment and a garlic-salt-pepper mix for 20 minutes.
Demonstrates a meal prep walkthrough for a cauliflower casserole, using a scale for measurements, mixing yogurt, cheese, and spices, then baking, with roasting tips for Brussels sprouts and broccoli.
Season the cauliflower with salt, pepper, and garlic, then add garlic jalapeño for extra flavor. Bake in the oven while prepping shrimp and assembling salads, with a quick cleanup.
Demonstrates a quick, easy meal prep for a shrimp salad: defrosted shrimp sautéed with garlic and peppers, served with a simple balsamic dressing; suggests protein swaps like tuna or chicken.
Assemble jar salads with dressing on the bottom, layer vegetables and spring mix, top with shrimp and feta, and use a barrier to prevent soggy greens.
Distribute six shrimp evenly across each salad by visual count, wash hands, and finish the meal prep by pulling veg from the timer and sealing the salads.
Watch how to finish a salad with dressing on the bottom, flip and shake it, and pull it off to achieve a pretty well dressed salad with a marinated taste.
Watch a practical meal prep walkthrough of finished loaded cauliflower and Brussels sprouts browned and crispy, cooling, and packed into containers, with salads and other items stored away.
follow a real-life meal prep walkthrough that highlights timing, checking doneness, and oven variances, with bonus guidance on protein temperatures for efficient planning.
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Do you feel like you are constantly trying to figure out what to eat? Do you feel like you live in the kitchen and spend too much time cooking? The meal planning and prep made easy course will help you to spend less time in the kitchen.
I'm Teresa Johnson, a former chef and now nutrition coach that will teach you some great hacks to make the whole cooking process quicker but also easier! Included in the course is not only lectures telling you how to get organized and have great food ideas, but a real life walk through of me doing a meal prep in my own kitchen.
The techniques and skills presented in this course are ones that I have not only used in my professional cooking career, but ones that I teach to my one on one wellness and nutrition coaching clients. I have also included Bonus PDFs that you can download and keep forever to use for your own planning.
Course Outline:
Introduction
Bonus Materials explained
Step 1: Get Organized
Step 2: Pick Your Meals
Step 3: Grocery List and Schedule
Step 4: Prepare to Cook
Step 5: Actually Cook!
Monthly Meal Prep
Full Meal Prep Walk Through
Course Conclusion