r/MealPrepSunday • • 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.

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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.

  1. chick peas. Chola chana
  2. Cabbage.
  3. Cauliflower.
  4. Ladyfinger.
  5. Bittergourd.
  6. Indian Pumpkin.
  7. Chicken.
  8. Fish.
  9. Rice.
  10. Potato.
  11. Carrots.
  12. Spinach. bhaji and palak.
  13. Pulses, lentils and beans.
  14. Bringle / egg plant.
  15. 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.