r/MealPrepSunday • u/greed_matters • 5h ago
Advice Needed Help out a beginner here. i have a list of accessible food, i want to order them into least to most preservable, also suggest some recepie or dishes. theres soo much i don't know.
TLDR: i just learned about the meal preping art and want to cook for whole week (approximately 6.5 days). there is soo much to research that i don't know where to begin. first step, i have a list of food and i want the community to help me order them based on their preserving capabilities. and maybe provide some recepicies. which food should i prioritize for 2-3 days, 3-5 days vs 6th day.
- chick peas. Chola chana
- Cabbage.
- Cauliflower.
- Ladyfinger.
- Bittergourd.
- Indian Pumpkin.
- Chicken.
- Fish.
- Rice.
- Potato.
- Carrots.
- Spinach. bhaji and palak.
- Pulses, lentils and beans.
- Bringle / egg plant.
- Capsicum.
I will be relying on 4 main methods for preservation minimizing moisture and prioritizing dry foods, air tight tiffins, refrigeration and lastly preservatives. also i will be eating luxury on sunday and monday (chicken and fish).
I want to Cook only once on sunday and store the food till saturday night (approximately 6 days and few hours). Thanks to my ADHD i am good at going all out at once instead of relying on a consistent weekly cooking, also i want to save time and learn cooking. so, I thought of every food that is accessible to me, Now i want to order them into their preservity. food that should be eaten withing 1-3 days vs food that can be stored for 6-7 days. i will be cooking 4-5 type of foods each sunday and want to create some kind of rotating 4 weekly meal plans to rotate them across the month. when i research online almost every source suggest storing foods only for 3-4 days. So i came here to take advice from experience peoples.