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Moins de gaspillage alimentaire

La préparation des repas permet d'économiser du temps et limite le gaspillage.

If you only eat small portions and don’t like spending time in the kitchen if you can avoid it, you can turn this to your advantage. Simply pick a time to cook a larger amount and store individual portions in the fridge or freezer. This works particularly well with soups, sauces and dishes like ratatouille, for example. Once a common practice known as pre-cooking, it now carries the trendier name “meal prep”. This new old trend offers a host of advantages, allowing you to use produce while it’s still fresh from the market and store it until you want to eat it.

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Le fait maison est plus sain et plus savoureux.

Faire ses courses en toute conscience et choisir des produits de saison permet de cuisiner avec des produits frais. Cela permet également d'éviter les plats préparés. L'un des avantages de la préparation des repas est la certitude de manger de délicieux repas faits maison les prochains jours, voire la semaine entière. Mais ce n'est pas tout : les plats faits maison sont souvent plus sains et plus savoureux. Cuisiner pour vous-même signifie que vous contrôlez tous les ingrédients qui se retrouvent dans votre assiette ou dans votre lunch box.

Meal preppers are aware of what they eat.

Cook once and enjoy it for several days. Meal prepping is an ideal solution, especially when you arrive home exhausted after a day at work and would otherwise mindlessly choose pasta with ready-made sauce or a frozen pizza. This is one way meal prepping can help to eat more healthy. After all, if you’re more aware of your food and portion size, you’ll notice sooner when you’re full.

Le "meal prep" évite le gaspillage alimentaire.

La préparation des repas vous permet donc de gagner du temps et de manger plus sainement. Plus encore, elle vous permet de contribuer à la lutte contre le gaspillage alimentaire. Si vous préparez deux ou trois portions à l'avance, il ne restera généralement pas d'ingrédients à moitié utilisés. Au contraire, vous pouvez même congeler une petite réserve pour les journées plus stressantes et agitées.

Le "meal prep" permet d'économiser de l'argent et des emballages.

La préparation des repas est également plus rentable. Si vous achetez votre déjeuner dans un café et que vous optez pour l'option livraison, vous paierez beaucoup plus cher. De plus, si vous commandez un plat à emporter ou optez pour des plats préparés, vous devrez également faire face à beaucoup plus d'emballages. L'exemple du "meal prep" montre qu'en prenant même de petites mesures, vous pouvez vivre de manière plus durable et éviter le gaspillage des restes de nourriture et des emballages.

Le "meal prep" en 8 étapes faciles.

Plus les ingrédients de votre plan de repas hebdomadaire se chevauchent, mieux c'est. Nous avons mis au point 8 étapes simples pour vous aider dans la préparation des repas.

Make space

Create the storage space you need.

Space is an important factor when it comes to meal prepping. If you’re sharing a small fridge and a tiny freezer compartment with your flatmate and only have a tiny food shelf, you might face some difficulties. Cooking ahead for the entire week? Out of the question! Consider how and where you can store your prepped meals before you make them. For example, a cellar could be a good solution.

Basics

Make sure you have the basic meal prep equipment.

Good preparation includes having a good stock of food in tins, resealable containers or glass jars. We recommend keeping a stock of rice, pasta, millet, porridge oats, cous cous, bulgur, onions, garlic, nuts, quality oils, a range of spices, mustard and soy sauce.

Planning

Organise your week and find recipes.

Something else worth mentioning when it comes to preparation: consider what you want to eat that week before you storm the supermarket. Flick through your cookbooks or browse the internet; check out the Braun recipe library to find some inspiration. Ideally, you should plan your week so that you can make full use of any leftovers. For example, you might plan two rice-based dishes so you only have to cook rice once. Checking your calendar might help, too. Have you agreed to go out for dinner at all this week?

Shopping

Choosing food more carefully.

Another upside to meal prep is, that if you take the time to focus on planning, shopping and meal prepping, you’ll automatically give your food the attention it deserves. Instead of just picking up the first thing you see, you can focus more on carefully selecting food that’s fresh, organic and local. This way, you’ll only buy what you really need and end up reducing or even eliminating food waste. Plus, shopping like this is far more pleasant than rushing through the aisles at the end of the day.

Cooking

Schedule a fixed cooking session each week.

So, how long does it take to cook meals for several days? Don’t worry, it shouldn’t take more than 2-3 hours per week. It’s best to give your meal prep session a fixed slot in your weekly schedule. This makes it easier to get into a routine that you might even enjoy or find relaxing. Only having to wash up once will save you a heap of time, too. Ideally, you should cook dishes with shared preparation steps. For example, if you need potatoes for different meals, you could cook them all together in a big pot. This will also save energy. If you want to use tomatoes in several dishes, simply distribute them across your various lunch boxes or containers.

Ingredients

Varied meals: Hugely beneficial.

Vegetables in season. Ideal options include: carrots (e.g. as crudités), pumpkins (cooked with oil and spices), courgette (roasted), tomatoes (cherry tomatoes to snack on), aubergines (roasted), broccoli (steamed), peppers (raw or roasted) and avocados.

Carbohydrates provide energy. Tasty sources include: potatoes, sweet potatoes, rice, pasta (ideally wholegrain), millet, quinoa, cous cous and bulgur.

Protein is an important part of any meal and helps to keep you full. Find it in meat, fish, tofu, pulses, quark, yoghurt and cooked eggs.

Dips/sauces to give your meal prep ingredients that extra hit of flavour. We recommend tomato sauce or ketchup, sour cream with herbs, pesto, hummus and guacamole.

Containers & boxes

Practical ways to store your meal prep.

After cooking, you need to portion the individual dishes up into different resealable containers, boxes and glass jars. If at all possible, use microwave-safe containers so you don’t need to decant the food for reheating. If you can stack the containers and store them conveniently in your fridge and freezer drawers, you’ll be onto a winner. There are also plenty of ways to transport your food safely, from old glass jars to ultra-practical lunchboxes with individual sections to Thermos flasks to keep your soup warm.

Dressings & sauces

Layer your ingredients well so that nothing gets squishy.

Ideally, you should keep salad dressings in a separate container or a little jar. This stops the dressing drenching the salad leaves by lunchtime. Dips and other sauces also taste best when added to the rest of the dish just before serving. Alternatively, you could put dressings and sauces at the bottom of the container so that they don’t leach through everything and make it squishy. Fresh fruit, salad leaves and vegetables belong at the top.

Meal prep: Look forward to coming home.

It’s easy to cook large amounts of soups and casseroles. They freeze brilliantly, which means you don’t have to eat the same meal all week. Plus, by adding various ingredients and toppings such as croutons, seeds or crème fraîche, you can whip up a few different versions of soups or salads in next to no time. You’ll see the benefit when you come home the following evening and already have a healthy, home-made meal ready and waiting for you. The same goes for your lunch breaks at work.

Our recipe recommendations

Are you looking for tasty meal prep recipes? Check out these three handy ideas from our recipe database.

Cream mushroom pasta with baby spinach & herbs

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Sweet potato biryani with masala spice mix & cucumber raita

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Recipe

Kruidige lamsgehaktballen met Griekse sla en yoghurt-munt-dressing

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Recept

Wist je dit?

Is meal preppen niet gewoon een trendy naam voor een ouderwets gebruik? Onze ouders en grootouders planden en kookten maaltijden vroeger immers al vooruit. Het nieuwe aan deze trend op het gebied van voedsel, die uit Amerika is komen overwaaien, is de holistische benadering van voeding en duurzaamheid met betrekking tot voedsel. Meal preppen is echter in de fitness scene ontstaan. Het idee erachter was dat je precies kunt bijhouden wat je eet en in welke hoeveelheden.

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Nos mixeurs plongeants MQ rendent tout cela plus facile.

Vous voulez devenir un préparateur de repas ? Peut-être avez-vous déjà une certaine expérience de la préparation des repas, mais vous cherchez les bonnes recettes ? Que diriez-vous d'une soupe aux lentilles rouges? Vous pouvez trouver de nombreuses autres recettes dans notre base de données de recettes. Et pour rendre la préparation des repas encore plus amusante et faire en sorte que tout soit épluché, remué et mélangé en un rien de temps, découvrez la série MQ de Braun. En savoir plus.

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Moins de gaspillage alimentaire

La préparation des repas permet d'économiser du temps et limite le gaspillage.

Le fait maison est plus sain et plus savoureux.

Meal preppers are aware of what they eat.

Le "meal prep" évite le gaspillage alimentaire.

Le "meal prep" permet d'économiser de l'argent et des emballages.

Le "meal prep" en 8 étapes faciles.

Make space

Create the storage space you need.

Basics

Make sure you have the basic meal prep equipment.

Planning

Organise your week and find recipes.

Shopping

Choosing food more carefully.

Cooking

Schedule a fixed cooking session each week.

Ingredients

Varied meals: Hugely beneficial.

Containers & boxes

Practical ways to store your meal prep.

Dressings & sauces

Layer your ingredients well so that nothing gets squishy.

Meal prep: Look forward to coming home.

Our recipe recommendations

Wist je dit?

Nos mixeurs plongeants MQ rendent tout cela plus facile.

Did you know…

Good design should be useful and sustainable. The Braun MultiQuick System and our tips can support your meal prepping and, in turn, help you to enjoy a healthier, balanced diet and establish a more sustainable relationship with food.

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