[LBF 2.0] The Food Factory [Part 3 of 4]

Whew, so that's the planning work done!

Now lets get into how you can save time in the kitchen. Have you ever heard of batch processing?

I got this example from Tim Ferris: If you were producing t-shirts...And you knew that to produce 50 would take 1 week. How long do you think it would take to make just 1 t-shirt?

Answer: 1 week

Why?

In production, the setup and scheduling of the machine is what takes the most time.

And it's the same when you produce your meals.

Think about if you boiled four eggs separately at different times.

Compare this with boiling all those eggs at the same time.

It's four times faster.

Batch preparing is the secret weapon to save time in the kitchen.

And you can do this with your meals.

All in all you can get your whole week sorted out in one evening.

Ideally you set aside a few hours each week where you preprepare all the meals.

Once done, you save them in Tupperware containers - ready.

Then when the meal time arrives, just take out the containers, do what's left and eat the meal.

Let's use the Pesto chicken as an example.

Prepreparaton:

1. Cut the chicken breast into thin strips
2. Smother the chicken breast in pesto and paprika.
3. Store the chicken in a Tupperware container and freeze.
4. Cut up the asparagus and broccoli.
5. Add the cherry tomatoes
6. Store all the vegetables in a Tupperware and keep in the fridge.

Day of the meal

1. Defrost the chicken breasts by sticking them in the fridge the night before.
2. Put the vegetables and chicken onto a cooking dish
3. Mix
4. Put in the oven for 20 min

Total physical preparation time 3:00 minutes

Sure....3:00 minutes if you got distracted by something, otherwise I think you could do this in 1:00 minute flat.

If I have a delicious meal almost ready made, waiting for me in my fridge, I don't pick up fast food at the end of a long tiring day.

3 or 4 hours and you have a week's meals ready to go.

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IMPLEMENTATION TASKS
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For every recipe you have, decide what can be preprepared.

This includes sauces, salad dressings...the works

Write Prepreparaton instructions for each recipe, as I've done for the Pesto chicken recipe.

This is important if you are going to do next step...which is reducing the 3 or 4 hours to a few minutes a day.

chat later

Greg Mac