Posts tagged meal-prepping
Reducing my cognitive load on food
- 29 March 2026
A typical day leaves very little room for improvisation. Sleep, work, basic maintenance, the small rituals that keep a life running. They fill almost the entire 24‑hour cycle. When I looked closely at where my time was going, food turned out to be the largest flexible block. Not the eating itself, but everything around it: deciding what to make, checking what I have, preparing it, cleaning up afterward. It was a constant background process that consumed more time and attention than I wanted to give it.
I enjoy eating, and I want the food I eat to be nutritious and unprocessed [1]. But preparing that kind of food every single day takes time I don’t always have. Meal prepping became a way to reclaim that time without compromising on what I value. I’ve been doing so for almost a year now. It gives me predictable meals, predictable nutrition, and predictable effort. It removes the daily decision‑making and replaces it with a weekly session that stabilizes the rest of the week.