Meal prep shouldn’t be this easy…
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Thanks to @simplysarahhart for the inspiration!
00:00 – Intro
00:45 – Instant Ramen
03:16 – Ginger Scallion Oil
05:13 – Butternut Squash Mac and Cheese
09:17 – Meat Sauce
12:32 – Thai Red Curry
16:14 – Kale & Basil Pesto
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40 Comments
Awesome ideas!
You are forgiven. I have been mad at you since you excluded Sara in your first video. Thanks for including her. A couple of good ideas for meal prep.
This video is excellent and I need to watch it again. And maybe again.
Yay Sarah!!! I love her content!
absolutely love these videos, thanks for introducing us to sarah too !
I LOVE your meal preps videos! (I love all your videos actually!) This is so helpful to me and my family.
Silicon moulds are great but absorb garlic and oil flavours/smells. Do I have to keep a set of silicon moulds to exclusively make sweet things or is there a way to wash them to make the smell go away?
Pro tip from my suegra, cut thoae chiles with scissors length ways to get the seeds out
I think mike went on the same adventure i went on when we sauce this cube idea. First you tried freezer cubing all kinds of meals, but really veggies just don't hold up and they really lose thier wonderful body and crunch. So kinda just moved back to making sauces and meats that reheat alot better than veggies do, and using fresh veggies when reheating.
@LifeByMikeG If you get a Chamber vacuum sealer you can go straight to frozen and eliminate the step of freezing the cubes.
I make big batches of chicken soup and coconut curry w/ ground turkey or pork. Separate the broth into the 1c cubes and meat into the 1/2c cubes. Vacuum seal them together, then warm them up in a pan, plus udon noodles if I want them. Easy soup when I’m not feeling well, and I think the ratios are better when separating the components
Amazing video! How can I incorporate this to feed 8? 😂
All looks great, too bad my doctor is saying I shouldn't be eating pasta (carbs), I have been trying a bunch of other stuff with the cubes though.
I'm obsessed with freezer cubes. I cook everything in bulk now so I can freeze the leftovers. I think it's safe to say we all hate cooking dinner every night, but this was life changing for me. I always have mexican rice and refried black beans frozen 🙂↕️
16:38 every time I’ve made pesto with almonds it comes out grainy feeling, except when I used my mortar and pestle for like an hour. I think an easier and smoother option would be almond flour. Toasting the nuts has never mattered to me though
How can frozen food be fresh? Frozen food to me is dead food. Freezing always changes the molecular structure of food, and in majority cases loses nutrient value vs making it fresh. I bet the time people spend batch cooking and freezing for meal prepped cubes would be the same amount of time spent having a couple of prep days a week and just cooking a small meal daily. I love the idea for convenience, and I understand freezing as a preservative method, but I just can't go back to eating frozen food everyday.
I found that freezing onions afects the rest of items in my freezer how can you solve this? 😮
She was my inspiration too! It's awesome that you're shouting her out
Great stuff Mikey G! Love the souper cube content. I’m into these too and love the inspo
yeah, frozen microplastic stew. no thanks. you've just locked in a ton of microplastics and chemical odor into your food. congrats.
sodium! yikes!
Don't freeze the parmesan in the pesto, right? I'm on it
2 suggestions for the ramen broth: puree the mushrooms to add back to the broth (or finely powder the dried mushroom before adding). if you might boil the broth when reheating, DON'T add the miso until the soup is reheated, as boiling miso is bad. it destroys the probiotics, it destroys the probiotics and flavor complexity, and it can create bitter flavors.
bonus: I powder wakami (dried seaweed) and add it to my miso soups. it expands so much that i end up with perfect bits in my broth rather than stringy bites.
thank you for this video!!! pls keep the souper cube content coming. my life depends on it.
microwave the cheese sauce on defrost in a 2 cup pyrex measuring cup and mix the pasta into that. the phrex is easier to wash than the second pan
YUP!!! This is my freezer too!
Most popular pasta dish of all time is bolognese sauce
I love this concept thank you for the awesome video. This reminds me of homemade noodles in a cup, just add hot water. Can you cover that next?
Thank you. Love this lego block series!
Nice for including Sara!
Zero leftovers? Why? Leftovers are great.
You have a greenhouse, why are you buying basil?
Amazing, so glad you mention Sarah 🙂 I love this series but was lowkey hoping you'd mention it at some point cos the whole lego lunches is her thing!! Keep it up
Thanks for all the recipes! They all seem like they'd be good, except that pesto 😬
Last garden season I grew bok choy and Chinese cabbage and loved flavor and they both reseeded theirselves 3 times.
blocks not cubes T_T
Use spoon when you're peeling gingers, this is one of those life hacks that changed my life.
More asian cuisines please 😀
Vacuum sealing all of those cubes is a massive plastic waste IMO.
This is such a smart and practical idea. Turning sauces and broths into freezer cubes honestly feels like a game changer for busy weeks. I love how organized and realistic this approach is.
Wishing this channel continued success, and hoping everyone watching picks up one helpful idea today that makes life just a little easier in the kitchen.
Amazing, please continue this series!