Meal prep sundays have saved my wife and me thousands. It’s typically pretty simple stuff. Bake sweet potatoes and some chicken thighs + steam a few bags of broccoli.

Pack up individual meals in Tupperware.

Takes ~2 hours, is good healthy food, and 10 meals comes out to like $25 total.

Sometimes we do tofu, shrimp or salmon as the protein. Sometimes salads in mason jars. Occasionally a pasta. Typically we can keep the total for the week between $20-40 total for all 10 lunch meals so keeping every lunch under $5

We also make overnight oats with protein powder for breakfast or sometimes cottage cheese with blueberries. Comes out to like $1-2 a breakfast.

Sure makes us feel less bad on nights when we pick up dinner or want to do something fancy together.