Sunday High-Protein Meal Prep: 5 days of meals in 2 hours on a tight budget

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Most high-protein cookbooks won't tell you what a week costs. This one does: $34 to $42, for fifteen meals and five snacks.That is one person, five days, three meals a day, groceries only. Around $7 to $8.50 a day. Every figure was computed from the USDA's own database and priced against real store-brand shelf prices, which is why the numbers are oddly specific instead of rounded to something comfortable.The system is one cooking session on Sunday, about two hours, and ten containers in the fridge. You are not cooking every night. You made five separate good decisions once, on a day you had some slack, instead of five times on five tired evenings.What is insideFour complete weeks, each with its own shopping list, prep-day timeline, and per-meal cost. Twenty recipes, every one with protein, calories, fibre and a price printed on it.An honest first shop. Week one rings up around $57, not $37, because you are buying a whole bottle of oil and a 42-ounce box of oats to use a fraction of each. It drops from week two. No other book in this category will tell you that.A two-hour timeline that assumes an ordinary kitchen — one sheet pan, one pot, a fridge that is not big.The build-your-own grid for after the four weeks, plus a fifth week built from it to show the method working.What survives to Thursday. Recipes were tested for whether they are still worth eating on day four, which is where most meal prep quietly fails.Who it is forPeople on a grocery budget that does not move, who want to eat properly without cooking every night and without buying a supplement. No cleanse. No powders. No food group cut. Around 130 grams of protein a day from ordinary food you already know how to buy.You need a stove, a fridge, and containers with lids. Start with Week 1. Read more