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[darchildre]

Why do so many of the blogs that talk about meal planning/prepping assume that I am vegan/keto/paleo/trying to lose weight?

I am none of those things! What I am is lazy - I hate cooking and don't want to do it more than once a week. Any meal prep I do is going to contain carbs, sugar, and animal products.

I'm extremely happy those resources are available for people who need them - seriously, that's great - but I do occasionally want tips for people who are meal prepping because they only want to think about food once a week and then never again, rather than apparently all the time.

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[jenett]

https://budgetbytes.com has some meal prep combos (though also does other recipes), and she's great about focusing on affordable/reliable to cook, rather than other priorities.

She has started putting in nutrition info, but she doesn't talk about it in the recipe or info except when it might be relevant to a swap ("If you want more protein, you could add cooked shredded chicken" or whatever.)

[darchildre]

Budgetbytes is great - it's one of my favorite cooking blogs and definitely one of the few exceptions to my issues in the post. (I don't mind nutrition info - I just don't want to have reverse engineer back from coconut aminos and agave nectar to ingredients I actually have.)