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We all know meal prep can help make weekdays less stressful, but it often remains aspirational. Grocery shopping is already enough of a chore. Planning everything you’re going to eat for the week and cooking the core ingredients in advance tacks on a few additional hours of work, cutting into precious weekend downtime.
Wondering how people do it? Many healthy meal preppers are sharing the secret to making meal prep actually happen on TikTok: a $27 platter from Whole Foods with enough grilled chicken, sweet potatoes and green beans to use throughout the week. People who have done it swear that it saves them both time and money — and they aren’t sacrificing nutritional value, either.