Want To Make Meal Preparation Easier?

All opinions are mine and mine alone.

Want To Make Meal Preparation Easier? Try Meat Delivery 

There is no question about it: we are living in a time of unprecedented busyness. From parents with young children to mid-career professionals and recent graduates, most North Americans feel they have less time and more obligations than their parents did. And many feel that this is negatively impacting their standard of living — the number of people who eat most of their meals has skyrocketed over the past twenty years, which has led to a greater dependence of cheap, unhealthy food.   

Given all this, it is perhaps not surprising that meal prepping has become such a popular option, especially among young, single, health-conscious urbanites who want to eat responsibly and save money but struggle to make time for shopping.  

  

Meal prepping involves preparing large quantities of food on the weekend that can be easily refrigerated or frozen for use throughout the week. Pasta sauces and soups are popular options, but many ambitious cooks also pre-prep rice bowls, salads, and even burritos for mid-week meals.    

While meal preparation is a great way to make sure you have home-cooked food readily available throughout the week, it still means making a time-consuming grocery-shopping trip on the weekend. This is where meat delivery services come in: with fresh meat delivery, you can have high quality cuts of beef, pork, chicken, and buffalo as well as sausages and wild-caught fish delivered straight to your door.  

This makes it easy for busy people of all kinds to plan and organize their shopping and meal prepping effectively. Services like truLOCAL can be set to deliver boxes of pre-packaged cuts on a monthly, tri-weekly, or bi-weekly basis, which means fresh meat is always on hand, and extra one-time orders can be added in-between scheduled deliveries if supplies run low.   

If you want to use your Sunday to prepare next week’s meals, you can make sure your meat box arrives the day before and then spend your afternoon prepping all your favourite pre-made dishes, from mason-jar soup or chilli to fresh bowls, burrito kits, and pasta portions.If you order from truLOCAL, you’ll also be getting sustainably raised local meat, which means that you don’t need to sacrifice flavour to build a healthier diet.   

Because the meat comes pre-packaged, it is also easy to defrost single servings of chicken, steak, pork, or fish in time for your evening meal. The night before you need it, simply remove a portion from your freezer, whip up a simple marinade, and all you’ll need to do when you get home is pop it in the oven or give it a quick pan-fry.   

For many single people who live alone and cook only for themselves, it can be difficult to find the motivation to spend an hour in the kitchen preparing food every day. At the same time, numerous studies have shown that one of the best ways to develop healthy eating habits is to eat more whole foods cooked at home.   

It is unlikely that we are going to get any less busy in the near future, but meal prepping with fresh, local meat delivered by services that specialize in local and sustainably raised food is one way to ensure that your busy schedule doesn’t come at the cost of a healthy diet.