If you're new to weekly meal prep, hey, Hi, I'm Stace and I've got a hack that will help make it simpler.

Don't prep the whole dinner, prep a whole heap of little things that will make up a meal.
It'll make a lunchbox.
And if you've got enough, it'll make one healthy, protein-filled brekkie too.

Think sweet potatoes, Asian mince, chicken schnitzels, shaved cabbage and oodles of veg. All of that can come together in a bunch of different ways to make a healthy dinner for your family.

This is my guide on how to meal prep enough healthy dinners for a family of 5; picky eaters included.

Now, if you love the idea of meal prep but want 'whole meals' prepped from start to finish, with an exact recipe to follow, and maybe a sweet video of Stace making it, check out my Dump Bag Course.

It's a $79 course that takes you through two weeks of making up Freezer 'Dump Bags' in just 1-hour. In one bag, you'll put all the ingredients for an amazing chicken & rice dish; in another, a veggie-packed sausage bake, you get the drift. It's such an ACE way to meal-prep if you want to follow a plan and get it right every time.

Steps In My Meal Prep Session:

1. Shop your freezer - I checked the freezer for what I had. I altered the proteins I am cooking, based on what I had.
2. Planned -I wrote a list of exactly what I wanted to cook, in order for which would take the longest to shortest. That way, I could use the prep time well.
3. Shopped - I bought just what I needed, and given I had so much meat in the freezer, I only spent $120 on veg and other bits. 
4. I found 2-hours to prep - I kicked the kids out, popped on my fav audio book and prepped.
5. Cleaned the kitchen & fridge - I'm in the habit of doing that weekly, so it took me 5-mins. 
6. Cooked - I started with the items that needed to go in the oven / set in the fridge first and finished with salad prep right at the end.
7. Cleaned - Everything as I cooked, the dishwasher went on, easy as.
8. Felt like a rockstar - Check out some photos below of how I turned the prep into meals. I often share what we're eating, the sides, all the stuff on my Instagram, so be sure to follow along there too.

Video Guide Of My How To Meal Prep For A Family Of 5.

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Healthy recipes I meal prepped for my family:

Roasted Sweet Potato, Potato & Pumpkin: I chopped these into cubes and roasted them on the same tray with a little sumac on the sweet potatoes, garlic and rosemary on the potatoes and onion powder on the pumpkin. 180 for 50-mins in the oven cooked them perfectly.
Gluten-Free Cheese Puffs: These are a Jo Whitton recipe, and although there are a few steps in it, these have been the highlight of the meal prep! I made a double batch and froze the second half of the mixture to make another time, so yum!
Cheats Chicken Schnitzel: This recipe is from my 20-minute meal plan course Instead of making a schnitzel using an egg wash, flour and then breadcrumbs, I go straight to the breadcrumbs. Season the breadcrumbs with rosemary, garlic and salt and pound that into the chicken so it's nice and thin. Then, cook it in batches. 
Asian Mince: I grab a fatty burger mince from my fav Farmers Market Butcher, The Free Range Butcher and I cooked that using Recipe Tin Eats asian mince recipe. 
Fish- I grilled 200g white fish with a seafood herb mix I bought from The Source Bulkfoods and covered it in lime once cooked.
Grilled Corn - I cooked 100g frozen corn on a hot pan, so that it charred up and gives the corn such a yummy taste.
Pickled Onions - A fav recipe of mine, my pickled onions, you can grab here.
Boiled Eggs- I always cook them with some baking powder, it makes them easier to peel.
Boiled Rice - I can crisp this up in my salad or serve it cold, as is.
Grilled Mushrooms - When the corn was done, I grilled the mushrooms.
Shaved & Cubed Veg - I used my cool new cutter to make a quick effort of that. I did cucumber, capsicum, celery and cabbage with that tool.

Watch more of my weekly meal prep session here:

Week 1 - I made just main meals in this cook-up, all ready in 1-hour. Click to watch Week-1's meal prep
Week 2 - I made a ton of freezer dump bags. Click to watch Week-2's meal prep