Here are five easy meals with minimal cleanup.
If you have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), meal prep can be more complex, but it can still be manageable with the right approach.
You can make these recipes in one pot or pan for easy cleanup. You can also easily double or triple them to make additional portions.
If you like takeout, you’ll love this easy alternative. This recipe calls for precooked chicken and rice, reducing the time needed to cook this dish to 10 minutes. It also calls for frozen vegetables and eggs, which can keep for a long time.
This recipe comes together in one skillet. The only other dish you need is one bowl and a whisk or fork to whisk the eggs.
Like the chicken fried rice, this recipe calls for precooked meat — canned salmon — and comes together in 10 minutes.
Simply chop the cilantro, green onions, and jalapeño peppers and mix them with the salmon, adding lime if desired. Then, slice an avocado, warm the tortillas in the microwave, and fill them with the salmon mixture. They are ready to eat!
Since fresh cilantro, green onions, and avocados can spoil relatively quickly, you may want to make this dish earlier in your meal prep lineup to ensure these ingredients are good when you eat them.
This vegetarian dish has lots of produce, including black beans, corn, crushed tomatoes, carrots, onions, and zucchini.
This recipe takes just 30 minutes to make. The most involved task is chopping the onions, zucchini, and carrots, but the rest of the produce comes canned, and you can make the chili in one pot.
You can buy pre-minced garlic in a jar to save time mincing garlic across multiple recipes.
This chicken bake takes 2 hours to make, but don’t let the total time intimidate you — most of the time comes from cooking in the oven.
Just add every ingredient to the baking dish and put it in the oven. Melt the butter in a separate bowl, but that’s the only other dish you need to make the recipe.
After an hour, remove the foil from the baking dish and bake it for another 30 minutes. You can set alarms to go off at certain times instead of intervals, so you only have to set them once. For example, if the chicken goes in the oven at 6:00 p.m., you can set alarms for 7:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. instead of a 1-hour countdown.
For this recipe, cook the salmon and vegetables on one sheet pan and roast them in the oven for just 15 minutes. Then, use a separate pot to cook the quinoa, so you need to use two dishes total.
You can purchase frozen salmon filets, broccoli, and carrots in bulk to prevent them from going bad quickly. Then, try using them in other dishes.
These five recipes are great for meal prep, as you can make them in one pan or pot and double or triple them to make portions to last throughout the week.
You can make many ingredients called for in these recipes with frozen or canned ingredients. This way, they’ll last for a long time.