Sophie Haslett For Daily Mail Australia
Updated March 22, 2023 02:54, March 22, 2023 07:39
- Angela Borges said she had been dieting to lose 11kg since 2018.
- shared her top tips for preparing meals in just 1.5 hours each week
A nutritionist who lost 11 kg by meal prep reveals how organizing her meals can save her 8-10 hours a week.
When Angela Borges from Melbourne started preparing her meals in early 2018, she saw immediate results and lost 11 kg.
Since then, she’s been “very consistent” with it and has been able to go from spending 11 1/2 hours a week preparing meals to just 1.5 hours making all of her breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. I was.
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“When I started meal prepping, I was spending about four hours preparing lunch and snacks on Sundays and about 1.5 hours a day preparing breakfast and dinner, so I worked a total of 11.5 hours a week. was there.”
Angela said she was having fun at the time, but had a different lifestyle and wasn’t running a business and “helping hundreds of clients.”
“Now things have changed and as a busy business woman, I can’t afford to spend 11.5 hours a week in the kitchen,” she said.
“But I’m a nutritionist, so I wasn’t going to give up on eating healthy.”
Instead, Angela said she began researching ways to “simplify nutrition” and make it as easy as possible.
Now she has been able to reduce her preparation to 1.5 hours a week.
She said she does this by “following a three-step meal prep framework that allows her to prepare lunch and several breakfasts in 15 to 30 minutes a week.”
Angela also said she keeps her snacks “super simple and on the go.”
Finally, she practices the “cook once, eat twice” mentality for dinner, where she cooks once for two meals.
“I do this every week and I love it,” said Angela. “It’s realistic for busy women like us.”
Earlier, Angela shared how she swears by 30 minutes of prep each week.
According to Angela, who shared her method on TikTok, 30 minutes of meal prep is “a simple lemon squeeze.”
“Today I’m going to show you the meals I prepare for the week in 30 minutes,” she said.
For breakfast, Angela prepared an apple pie oat that required oats, sliced apples, milk and cinnamon.
For lunch, Angela makes a truffle burger bowl with salad, cherry tomatoes, onions, grated cheese, burger, truffle mayonnaise, and croutons, and for dinner, the nutritionist says it’s her “absolute favorite meal.” I had the Perinaise Tuna Bowl.
“You don’t have to prepare anything, just have the ingredients,” she said.
Perinaise Tuna Donburi contains sriracha rice, canned tuna, salad mix and perinaise sauce (peri peri mayonnaise).
Angela prepared several snacks, including brie cheese, crackers, blueberries and mangoes.
A nutritionist shares other 30-minute meal prep plans that include a Mexican Caesar salad for lunch and a chicken and pasta feta salad for dinner.
Apple pie oats were a breakfast staple for Angela, and she prepared on-the-go snacks like oranges and protein bars.