Getting Robbed By The Kitchen.
There are things that we do each day without paying much attention to the time they take. I am grateful for technology and groups that engineer products and services to save us time. We have been giving some interesting stuff in the last two decades. You can remote start your vehicle to get it warm during winter. You can turn on your lights, oven, or washer from anywhere in the world. I set up my phone so that as soon as I get home, it turns off cellular data and connects to the Wi-Fi.
But, there are other things that you may miss, that could be costing you many hours over the course of a month. The thing that I overlooked was cooking. I love cooking, and I do a wide range of cuisine each week. Breakfast takes about 40 minutes, dinner takes about an hour and a half on average. I cook about five days out of the week. That is six hundred and fifty minutes each week, or two thousand six hundred minutes for the month. I realized Sunday that cooking was robbing me of a lot of time. Today is the first time that I am checking the minutes, though. Why should I spend 31,200 minutes in the kitchen in a year?
Thousands of minutes that I could be spending with my family or improving myself. So, I decided to save time by cooking several meals on Mondays. Today as I am writing this newsletter I am feeling so much better.
Prepping, not only saves you time but also helps with mental. I do not have to stop what I am doing to make dinner. That removes subconscious pressure. Some may ask do you save time, or do you spend the regular time doing everything one day? I have saved myself some time already. For example, I planned my menu according to the ingredients that I already have. I made a few dishes with similar ingredients. During prepping, I can cut them all at once, season them, and do other steps. I will be sharing what my menu for the week looks like in another post.
You save on electricity and water. Saving money is another plus. There are days when you are tired, and cooking is the last thing you want to do. Somehow, those days are more frequent than you notice. A ready meal at home may help you beat the urge of dining out.
The savings might be small, but it adds up. Anyone doing the same task daily knows what it feels like to discover a way to save time.
This is no big breakthrough. I am probably one of the few people who got left in the "no-prep" world. You may watch this video or another to learn more about meal prepping.
Before you go, what is something that you do to save time in your life?