I started a thread like this a while back, and it was interesting to get tips from others on tricks to make meal prep/planning easier.

I work a pretty physically exhausting job - also mentally exhausting right now - and as many of us find, the key to being successful on this WOE involves preparing your own food. To be successful at that, you have to keep it simple and plan ahead. Do you have a time of the week during which you do food prep for the upcoming busy work/school week? For me, it's Saturday and/or Sunday.

- Important step one: I load up a favorite music playlist that gets me moving , and I put on a comfortable pair of shoes. (Buy yourself some indoor shoes if you think it's weird to wear shoes in the house. Your feet and back will thank you.)
- Recommended step two: put the clean dishes away from the dishwasher, put dirty dishes in, start some hot soapy water to wash some dishes by hand.

Here's what I did yesterday:
- "Processed" a cooked pork roast - rendered the lard, cooked down the sauce, shredded the meat, made cat food out of some of it, put most of the meat/sauce in the freezer in small containers. This is way more complicated than my usual roast-a-chicken-or-a-hunk-of-beef routine, so I only do it when the pork is really cheap. The spicy lard and broth is amazeballs.
- Made a frittata out of some previously-sliced sausage, peppers and onions in a container. This is easier than it sounds: I sauteed the sausage/veggies in aforementioned lard in my cast iron pan, added an egg/cream mixture, let it cook a bit, threw it in the oven until it was done.
- At the same time, since the oven was on, did some coconut flour tea biscuits.
- Cut up some carrots for DH. He wanted one, so I cut 3 or 4. I like them, too.

Easy meals all week now.