Comments on: 25 High Protein Meal Prep Recipes You’ll Want To Make

By: Amee Livingston

Amee Livingston — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:10:27 +0000

In reply to Adam. Hi Adam! Using divided meal prep containers is helpful for keeping sauces/ ingredients separated. However, it's not the most convenient when things need to be heated up separately for different cooking times, etc. I use small sauce containers if I want to keep the sauce or dressing separate from the dish. It does mean extra containers/lids, but that's what works well for me.

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:59:27 +0000

The point about chicken thighs staying tender when reheated is something I wish I’d understood years ago — I spent way too long forcing dry chicken breasts into Tuesday lunch containers and wondering why I dreaded eating them. There’s actually good science behind the fat content argument: research published in the Journal of Food Science has shown that intramuscular fat helps retain moisture during reheating cycles, which is exactly why thighs forgive you when life happens and your “Monday prep” becomes “Thursday’s desperate lunch.” I also love that this roundup leans into flavor variety — chipotle, Thai peanut, Greek, jerk — because I think the real reason most people abandon meal prep isn’t laziness, it’s eating the same sad bowl four days in a row until they’d rather starve. For those of us who’ve been in that rut, rotating two or three flavor profiles from the same base protein each week is genuinely life-changing. Curious whether you or other readers have a strategy for keeping sauces and dressings separate during storage without turning prep day into a containers-and-lids puzzle?

By: Amee Livingston

Amee Livingston — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 19:26:44 +0000

In reply to Bintu | Budget Delicious. Thank you for contributing! :)

By: Bintu | Budget Delicious

Bintu | Budget Delicious — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 21:51:15 +0000

What a delicious selection of meal prep recipes! Thank you for including one of mine!