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Meal prep Sunday — 4 batch-cookable recipes for a week of lunches

Sunday meal prep works — but only if the recipes ACTUALLY survive 5 days in a fridge. Half the "meal prep ideas" on Pinterest are 2-day-shelf-life mistakes.

Meal prep Sunday is a high-leverage habit: 3 hours of work buys back 30+ minutes a day of "what's for lunch" decision fatigue. The catch is that not all recipes batch-cook well. Greens wilt by Wednesday. Fish smells by Thursday. Curries that should be fine somehow taste worse on day 4. Picking the wrong 4 recipes means half your prep ends up in the bin.

Volya's recipe catalogue tags batch_cook_friendly + freezer_friendly + storage_days per recipe — only dishes verified to hold their texture/flavour after 5 days in the fridge get the tag. Filter the catalogue, pick 4, the shopping list auto-groups by aisle. The same recipes can be regenerated as a one-week plan if you want variety; or eat the same 4 dishes for 5 days if you're optimising for time, not novelty.

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Sunday meal prep works — but only if the recipes ACTUALLY survive 5 days in a fridge. Half the "meal prep ideas" on Pinterest are 2-day-shelf-life mistakes.

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