How to make meal prepping easier

Cooking healthily with less effort, so you can enjoy life

Kaki Okumura
3 min readJun 12, 2024

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Illustrations by Kaki Okumura

It’s no secret that prepping for meals in advance makes cooking a lot easier.

Many seasoned cooks choose to prep on weekends rather than on weekdays, when they have less time to cook or are simply exhausted after the work day.

But ironically meal-prepping can be very time consuming, taking away precious leisure time from our weekends in preparation for the workweek. I’d rather not spend my free time like that.

Instead I prefer to eat well with less effort, which leads me to one of my favorite ‘secrets’ to healthy eating: Always chop more vegetables than you need, cook more than you need.

Always chop more vegetables than you need, cook more than you need.

I never ever ever cook single-serving meals anymore

While I’m all for home-cooked meals and think it’s an essential part of a well-rounded lifestyle, many of us don’t have the bandwidth to take our time cooking and sharing meals with our loved ones…

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Kaki Okumura

Born in Dallas, raised in New York and Tokyo. I care about helping others learn to live a better, healthier life. My site: www.kakikata.space 🌱