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Strengthen your inner home cook's meal-prepping skills through smart strategies and inspired ideas that make planning meals both creative and efficient. From time-saving grocery shortcuts like pre-cut produce, pre-made sauces, spice blends, and ready-to-use proteins for streamlined prep.

Then build flavorful foundations with batch-prepped aromatics such as pre-blended seasoning pastes, mirepoix, or garlic-ginger paste that turn Sunday prep into weeknight success.

You’ll also find plant-focused guides full of globally inspired, make-ahead ideas to simplify vegetarian cooking, along with practical routines for families to prep meals together and build lasting habits.

Check out how smart meal prepping turns meal planning into a creative, time-saving routine that puts you back in control of your kitchen.

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I’m Maika, a professionally trained chef, recipe developer, and culinary educator. For over a decade, I worked at major hotels such as the PGA National Resort, The Ritz-Carlon Hotel Company, Conrad Hilton, and W Hotel. As a lifetime passionate cook, my blog explores a world of flavors and experiments with recipes to create restaurant-quality dinners that will excite the food enthusiast's taste buds. Learn More →

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Sliced Peach Piri Piri Chicken with Fonio Kale Salad on a plate.

Pollotarian

Caesar Salad with soft-boiled Egg, roasted campari Tomatoes and Chili-Infused Croutons garnished with freshly grated parmesan cheese and cracked black pepper in a wide rim bowl.

Vegetarian

Gluten-Free

Dairy-Free

Grilled Zhug Ras el Hanout Lamb Chops and Tomato, cucumber, onion Salad served with a lemon-oregano dressing served with a grilled lemon.

Grain-Free

grilled marinated tofu on top of a warm roasted vegetable couscous salad on spicy basil romesco sauce in a wide rim bowl topped with micro greens.

Egg-Free

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Nut-Free

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