| Happy Sunday, everyone. Someone asked me about meal prep. How to do it? How to make it taste good? How to make it work without spending all day Sunday prepping meals? Now, normally I'm not the guy to answer this. I don't meal prep, full disclosure. I'm not working an office job where I have to bring my meals. If I want something, I'm fortunate enough to have the freedom to whip something up on the spot. Or, frequently, just fast. So here's how I'd meal prep if I had to do it. Here's the Lazy Man's Meal Prep. Here's meal prep for people who don't want to spend their time meal prepping. 1. Cook a big piece of animal. Roast, grill, smoke, or otherwise cook a large piece of animal. I'm talking like a 5 pound butterflied leg of lamb. An enormous beef roast. A huge pork loin. You want something on the leaner side that you can just slice up and eat throughout the week, cold. And you want it to be big. Keep it on the rarer side for beef, closer to medium-rare for lamb, and medium for pork. Then, simply slice pieces off when you need to eat. Keeping it intact until meal time keeps it fresher. A good big hunk of meat will last at least 4 days in the fridge. 2. Grill day. Invite your friends over. Bring out the grill, fire it up, and spend the next two hours cooking as much food as you can. Grill burgers, steaks, sausages. Have some whole chickens slow cooking on indirect heat. Grill some salmon and shrimp. Do some pepper, onion, and beef kebabs. Grill asparagus, then finish it with lemon juice. Cook big mushrooms like they're slabs of meat. Slice up a pineapple and slow grill it until you can eat the core. Make a lot of food. Make too much food. Feed your friends and family and self, then pack up the leftovers and eat that the rest of the week. 3. Boil eggs. Boil 1-2 dozen eggs and keep them in the fridge, shell on. Eat when hungry. I like mine soft boiled. Serve with salt and pepper and turmeric. 4. Cold potatoes (or sweet potatoes, or butternut squash, etc). Even though I'm not chowing down on starches every day, I do like to keep cold potatoes (or sweet potatoes, or butternut squash, which isn't really a starch and is lower in carbs than you think) on hand in the fridge. Then, if you want some crispy potatoes, you just slice them up into cubes or fries and quickly sauté them in a hot pan with a healthy fat like avocado oil, olive oil, butter, or coconut oil. Or the leftover fat from cooking meat. You can have crispy potatoes in 5 minutes. And sometimes I even like eating plain cold potatoes or sweet potatoes with a meal. Probably all the ceviche I've been eating here (the Peruvian style gives you a plain sweet potato with your ceviche). 5. Canned seafood. Canned tuna, smoked oysters, and sardines are staples in my house. They keep for a long time and if you get quality ones, they taste fantastic. One of my favorite meals is several large slices of cold roasted/grilled lamb leg with sharp cheddar cheese and a handful of berries. Maybe some romaine lettuce to wrap it all up with some Primal Kitchen® Green Goddess dressing to dip. Quick, to the point, nutrient-dense, filling. I'd put that up against most other types of "meal prepped" meals you see out there online. So that's how I'd meal prep. There's very little actual prep involved, and what little prep there is, is actually enjoyable and well-integrated into the rest of your week. How do you meal prep? Let me know in the comment section of New and Noteworthy. | 
