Moins de gaspillage alimentaire avec Braun - Préparez vos repas

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Meal prep saves time, effort and waste.

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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.

Le saviez-vous ?

Le "meal prep" ou "préparation des repas", est simplement un nom moderne pour une vieille idée. Après tout, nos parents et grands-parents planifiaient leurs repas et cuisinaient à l'avance. Le nouvel aspect de cette tendance alimentaire, venue des États-Unis, est l'approche holistique de la nutrition et de la durabilité en matière d'alimentation. Cependant, le "meal prep" est né sur la scène du fitness. Il a été créé pour suivre exactement ce qu'une personne mangeait et en quelles quantités.

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Des repas plus sains et plus savoureux

Faire ses courses en toute conscience et choisir des produits de saison permet de cuisiner avec des produits frais. L'un des avantages de la préparation des recettes est la certitude de manger de délicieux repas faits maison les prochains jours, voire la semaine entière. Mais ce n'est pas tout : la cuisine faite maison est souvent plus saine et plus savoureuse. 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.

Meal prep prevents food waste.

So, meal prep helps you to save time and eat more healthily. More than that, though, it allows you to do your bit to fight food waste. If you cook two or three portions in advance, there usually won’t be any half-used ingredients left over. Instead, you might even be able to freeze a little stockpile for those hectic, stressful days.

Meal prep saves money and packaging.

Meal prep is also more cost-effective. If you buy lunch from a café or get it delivered, you’ll end up paying much more. And, if you order a takeaway or opt for convenience food, you’ll also have to contend with far more packaging. The example of meal prep shows that, by taking even small steps, you can live more sustainably and prevent waste from leftover food and packaging.

Become a meal prepper in 8 easy steps.

Stuffed peppers, pepper salad and a stir-fry – the more the ingredients on your weekly meal plan overlap, the better. You can enjoy more variety on your plate as a result. We’ve put together 8 simple steps to help you become a meal prepper.

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.

Contenants et boîtes

Des moyens pratiques de conserver vos repas préparés

Après la cuisson, vous devez répartir vos portions dans différents récipients refermables, boîtes et bocaux en verre. Dans la mesure du possible, utilisez des récipients allant au micro-ondes afin de ne pas avoir à transvaser les aliments pour les réchauffer. Optimisez le rangement malin en empilant les récipients et les ranger de manière pratique dans votre réfrigérateur et votre congélateur. Il existe également de nombreux moyens de transporter vos aliments en toute sécurité, comme des bocaux en verre aux boîtes à lunch ultra-pratiques avec des sections individuelles, ou encore des bouteilles Thermos pour garder votre soupe au chaud.

Vinaigrettes et sauces

Superposez bien vos ingrédients pour plus de saveurs

L'idéal est de conserver les sauces à salade dans un récipient séparé ou dans un petit bocal. Vous éviterez ainsi que la vinaigrette n'imbibe les feuilles de salade. Les dips et autres sauces sont également plus savoureux lorsqu'ils sont ajoutés au reste du plat juste avant la dégustation. De plus, nous vous conseillons de placer les fruits frais, les feuilles de salade et les légumes en haut.

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.

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