Let’s be honest — lunch is the meal most people struggle with.
Breakfast can easily be a repeat meal. Dinner gets the family attention.
But lunch? Lunch is when the wheels fall off.

You’re busy. You’ve got ten minutes between calls. Or you’re starving at 2 pm and end up grabbing toast, something sweet, something random from the fridge… or skipping altogether.

So let’s fix that — not with five perfectly portioned Tupperware lunches (no one’s got time for that) — but with food prep.
And by food prep, I don’t mean full meal prep. Let me explain.

Food Prep = Your Lunchtime Lifesaver

Instead of pre-packing every single lunch for the week, you prep components — ready-to-go building blocks you can mix and match in minutes. Something you can easily pop together the night before or morning before work if you need to.

Think of it like creating your own “build-a-bowl” bar at home.

Protein options:
Batch-cook mince, grill chicken breasts or steaks, or boil a few eggs.
Keep a couple of tuna, chickpea, lentil cans or cottage cheese tubs on standby for backup days.

Veggies:
Roast a tray of mixed veggies on Sunday (they’ll last up to four days).
Wash and chop salad greens or keep frozen stir-fry veggies handy.
You can even build a few salad jars with all your salad goodies already cut — just add protein when you’re ready to eat.

Carbs:
Cook up a batch of rice, quinoa, or sweet potatoes.
Bonus: cooking and cooling your carbs creates resistant starch — which supports better blood sugar balance and a happy gut.

Add-ons (healthy fats & flavour boosters):
Feta, hummus, avo, olive oil, pickles, nuts, seeds, or dressing.
These are what make your meals taste good and feel fresh.

Why this works

Because life happens. Because lunch needs to be quick, not perfect
Plans change. Cravings change.
Food prep (instead of meal prep) gives you flexibility, not rigidity.

When you’ve got your base foods prepped, you can throw something together in five minutes — no panic, no skipping, no sad sandwich.

You’ll eat better, stay fuller, and stop defaulting to toast, Uber Eats or skipping  just because “you didn’t have time.”

Your Simple Food Prep Plan

1. Pick 1–2 proteins, 1–2 carbs, and 2–3 veggies to prep.
2. Cook them in bulk (make use of Sunday dinner time to prep a few components while you’re already in the kitchen).
3. Store each food separately — not as full meals.
4. Mix and match during the week for easy, flexible lunches.

    

   No overthinking. No Tupperware towers.
   Just good food, ready when you need it.

Food prep wins every time — especially for lunch.

Much Love,
Liz