The everyday life of many people is very fast-moving: Whether it is studies, job or family - time is often very scarce for the things that have to be done every single day - "free" time has become a rare and rare commodity for a large part of it. At the same time, awareness of health is growing and how it can be positively influenced by a healthy diet and exercise. But what to do if there is not enough time for daily fresh and healthy cooking or if cooking is simply not my thing? What alternatives do I have? If you take a look in the classic supermarket freezer, it quickly becomes clear that you won't find healthy ready-made meals here. A list of ingredients that is so long that you can hardly read it and lists ingredients that sound as if they came from a chemical laboratory quickly raise doubts about a quick but healthy diet. So after deep-frozen pizza and lasagna are out of the question, one's gaze may fall on various (fast-food) restaurants that prepare meals at short notice, simply and directly for take-away. The catch: A list of ingredients is not even available and here too it quickly becomes clear: in the long run, this is not the "healthy" solution you are looking for.


MEal Prep in trend


But what has my grandmother always done back then? Cooked huge quantities of food, filled into storage containers, stored in the fridge/freezer and warmed up. The increasingly popular principle of the "meal prep" is based on exactly this principle of "pre-cooking": You pick one day in the week (often Sunday) and cook for the following week. After cooking, the whole thing is divided into portions and warmed up on the day planned for the following week, leaving your hands "free" for the rest of the week and thus gaining a few hours of valuable time. However, a comprehensive knowledge of healthy food, basal metabolic rate, daily requirements of minerals and vitamins, and so on is required here. And how do I, as an athlete, manage to know exactly how much protein I take in through my diet? Wouldn't it be helpful for losing weight to know the exact calorie content of the meal? This is exactly where the young company prepmyMeal comes in, combining tried and tested methods with expert knowledge. Just like in classic pre-cooking, you receive ready meals for the whole week, which can be easily stored in the refrigerator and quickly warmed up at the right time. But compared to lasagne from the freezer, this new form of ready meal is free of added sugar, flavour enhancers and unhealthy fats. The list of ingredients is short and contains only ingredients that you know. You know how many calories you consume and whether you cover your protein requirements according to your training by means of precise nutritional information.


The comparison of two ready meals


To make the difference between a typical ready meal from the supermarket and one of the most popular meal boxes from prepmymeal directly visible, we would like to make a small comparison here: How does a frozen lasagne really compare to the Meal-Prep company's "bestseller box" ?

Lasage Bolognese - with fresh tomatoes 


-Ingredients: 54% Bolognese sauce (44% pork¹, water, tomato paste 2 times concentrated, 10% tomatoes², onions, rapeseed oil, starch, iodized salt [salt, potassium iodate], spices, dextrose, sugar), 25% Béchamel sauce (water, MILK POWDER, WHEAT FLOUR, RAPE OIL, STARCH, COOKING SALT, Sugar, Spices), 15% cooked pasta sheets (HARDWHEAT GRAIN, water, FULL, COOKING SALT), 6% TERRIBED EMMENTALS (MILK, STARCH, COOKING SALT, RENNET EXCHANGE, LACtic acid cultures) 


-Nutritional values/ 100g:160 kcal, 8.5g fat (3.8 of which are unsaturated fatty acids), 12.5g carbohydrates (1.5g of which are sugars), 7.8g protein 


 

prepmymeal box: Chicken breast, sweet potato, broccoli with curry sauce 


-Ingredients: chicken breast, sweet potatoes, broccoli, olive oil, salt, pepper 

-Ingredients sauce (separate): yoghurt, tomatoes, onions, curry, salt, pepper, chilli 

-Nutritional values/ 100g:140 kcal, 1.7g fat, 16g carbohydrates, 14.2g protein


Conclusion


After the comparison it becomes clear: Both are ready meals that are simple and quick. If it is to be healthy in the long term, lasagne is definitely not an option. However, the dream of "healthy ready meals" is not shattered: On the contrary, our bestseller box of the Meal Prep Startup is not only convincing in terms of comfort and speed: the nutritionally proven ones are top and keep your body healthy for a long time! So from now on you can sit back without a guilty conscience and wait for the next PrepmyMeal order.


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