5 Easy Recipes to Make Even If You've Never Meal Prepped Before

Happy New Year everyone, if you are looking to start meal prepping in 2025, these recipes are for you. They are simple, low effort, and don't require much cooking technique so you almost can't mess them up.

0:00 Intro

Nutritional Estimates from Spoonacular API.

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[nefariousgrey]

My husband LOVES the cheeseburger skillets, we've added to our meal prep rotation since you first published the recipe. It really takes care of that fast food burger craving

[MrJdub]

I just had the fajita chicken fried rice for lunch today! EXCELLENT recipe! Also just signed up 😁

[Andriej]

Chicken curry and peanut/honey skillet are bangers, especially the former. Taste is one of a kind

[thejony]

Hell yeah! H‑E‑B brand sausage AND vegetables 👍🏿

[barix]

I'll be saving this one for reference for sure. I'm a fairly picky eater, and starting to move towards meal prep to improve my eating habits. All five of these recipes are ones I could for sure eat, or at modify only slightly to eat and still have a more healthy diet. Huge kudos. Thanks for the great video.

[CleebyTheKid]

You should add time stamps!

Keep up the good work for 2025!

[TheMeetymeet]

The peanut turkey stir fry is definitely one that I wouldn't get enough of. Anyways, looking forward to more of your cool meal preps this year, Josh.

[luish]

Number 3 is definitely being added to the rotation.

[Valaran]

You might have just solved my entire meal prep rotation for 2025 in a single video. I especially love that these are relatively "high" carb, as I'm training for ultramarathons throughout the year. I will probably try and adapt the input amounts to make batches of 7 meals at once, but all 5 of these look great.

[athanaric]

Great start to the year! Looking forward to making all of these!

[RyanRyan-Ryan]

5:47 for the potatoes and onion or most veg in general. Getting a levered chopper has been well worth it for me. Big fan of convenience and Archimedes

[THENAMEISQUICKMAN]

Loving the smoked sausage with rice and beans. Gonna add some hot sauce to it as well just because I like my rice dishes like that to be spicy.

[patrickr]

Woah woah woah, we going mullet now josh!!! I love it

[aaronbarrera]

Currently eating a Hello Fresh inspired couscous recipe, but I used some flash frozen chicken breast strips a la your style, heated just like you advised. Fantastic meal! You changed my perspective to meal prep with the snack city approach, thank you

[flyingdutchman]

Hey Josh, german viewer here. Google has made a pretty unpolished feature which auto translates Youtube titles to your specific language, in my case german. The translation is pretty bad and often doesn't make sense, sadly as a viewer you cannot disable it and only the creator can do it for his videos. Therefore, I beg you to disable it, since it is enabled by default.

[Hogue_Indiana]

Dude. My freezer is full of your lo mein and buffalo chicken rice! Thanks for the vid.

[keonnasimpson]

By the way...I love your response to the co- worker lol

[tenaciousorb]

Check into some frozen edamame, good protein and more coverage as far as frozen vegetables go.

[josilasik]

Love your videos. Wish there were more. But I've done another year of the meal pepp manual. 3rd year.

[quadsnipershot]

Oh god Josh is on his country phase now