An Athlete's Guide to Vegan Meal Prep: One Month of Guided Cooking
For everyone, cooking is hard. Eating well is hard. Trying a new diet is hard.
For athletes in all sports, eating enough is hard. Getting enough protein and other nutrients is hard. My knee has been hurting. That's also hard.
Meal prep is thrown around a lot in fitness-centered communities to solve these problems. It's a way to make sure you eat enough food at the right times throughout the week. Just having the food relieves stress and makes life easier. However, for those who eat plant-based (such as myself), there aren't a lot of resources with recipes that can be cooked in bulk or that have enough protein.
Solution: Some guidance in the form of a cookbook. For the price of a Starbucks, you can have the next 21 days planned out for you. Your shopping lists, your cooking days, and recipes are all laid out. They taste good, have varied nutrients, and enough protein to make your carnivore-dad wince.
Over the last few months, I've put an extra twenty pounds on my frame (185-205) with consistent exercise and 4 (vegan) meals a day. I can lift and do more than ever before. This has been possible through easy, good-tasting bulk cooking.
My omnivorous roommate loves the days I cook, because not only does it make the apartment smell amazing, but I usually share. Some banging quotes include "If you hadn't told me this wasn't meat, I wouldn't have known."
The Specifics:
- Three weeks, three bulk meals a week. Nine high-quality recipes. On top of this:
- A bulk shopping list for each week, as well as a bulk combined recipe for each week (how to cook them more or less simultaneously).
- Quick-guides on baking veggies and cooking other bulk adders (rice, quinoa, mashed potatoes, etc.) to make for easy quality calories and stretch your cooking efforts for longer.
- The smug satisfaction you get from your roommates wondering what's making the apartment smell so good.
- Recipes for snacks to fill the gaps.
- Your father's love and approval (not guaranteed, but it couldn't hurt to try).
Three weeks, three bulk meals a week. Nine high-quality recipes. On top of this: A bulk shopping list for each week, as well as a bulk combined recipe for each week (how to cook them more or less simultaneously). Quick-guides on baking veggies and cooking other bulk adders (rice, quinoa, mashed potatoes, etc.) to make for easy quality calories and stretch your cooking efforts for longer. The smug satisfaction you get from your roommates wondering what's making the apartment smell so good. Recipes for snacks to fill the gaps. Your father's love and approval (not guaranteed, but it couldn't hurt to try).