SKILLPAGES EBOOK

Meal Prep Like You Mean It

The practical system for batch cooking, grocery planning, and eating well on $50/week. No 4-hour Sundays. No boredom by Thursday.

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Who this is for

Anyone who knows they should meal prep but hasn't found a system that sticks. You tried it, got bored by Wednesday, and ordered Chipotle. The problem isn't willpower — it's not having the right sauces, the right process, or the right shopping list.

People spending $15+/day on work lunchesAnyone who preps once and gets bored by ThursdayBusy weeks where cooking from scratch isn't happeningPeople who want to eat well without burning SundayAnyone trying to keep grocery costs under $50/week

What's inside

7 chapters. No filler. Grocery templates, the 90-minute schedule, and a boredom-proof assembly system.

1
The $50/Week Formula
Protein-carb-veg allocation with exact amounts. Three grocery templates for different protein profiles.
2
3 Sauces That Save Any Base
Garlic Soy, Tomato Spice, Lemon Herb. Same rice and chicken, 9 different combinations.
3
Batch-Cook Sunday in 90 Minutes
Exact time stamps. Oven, stovetop, and rice pot running simultaneously. Not 4 hours.
4
Freezer Rules
What freezes (chicken, rice, sauce), what doesn't (potatoes, dressed greens), how long everything lasts.
5
Lunch-Box Assembly: 5 Days Without Boredom
Different container patterns Mon–Fri using the same base ingredients.
6
Eating Out Without Blowing the Week
The 80/20 framework. How to eat at restaurants intentionally instead of by default.
7
Grocery List Templates
Three print-ready templates: Chicken+Beef, Chicken+Lentils, Fish+Chicken.

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Quick Win · Page 1

The Sauce That Changes Everything

If you've tried meal prep and gotten bored by Wednesday, there's a 90% chance you were eating the same food without any variation. Same chicken, same rice, same flavor. Nobody can sustain that.

The fix is one sauce, made in 10 minutes on Sunday, that makes your prep taste completely different on Monday vs. Thursday.

Make this Sunday: Garlic Soy Glaze 3 tbsp soy sauce · 1 tbsp sesame oil · 1 tbsp honey · 2 cloves garlic (minced) · 1 tsp ginger (fresh or paste). Whisk together. Drizzle over rice + protein before eating — not before storing. Keeps in a jar in the fridge for 2 weeks. Cost: under $2 for a week of flavor.

The reason this works: you prep neutral bases (plain rice, unseasoned chicken) and add flavor at the meal moment, not the cook moment. Three different sauces give you nine different combinations from the same batch. That's the system.

Introduction · Page 2

Food vs. Meals

Most people who try meal prep do some version of the same thing: they spend a Sunday afternoon cooking a giant batch of something — usually a chicken breast and some broccoli — and then eat it three days in a row until they never want to see it again. By Wednesday they're ordering takeout. By the following week, they've stopped entirely.

The problem isn't discipline. The problem is that they prepped food, not meals. There's a difference.

Food is a cooked chicken breast. A meal is that same chicken breast with a sauce that makes it taste completely different than the one you had yesterday. The container's the same. The experience isn't.

The core insight Successful meal preppers don't prep complete meals. They prep components — a protein, a carb, a vegetable — and assemble them fresh each day with different sauces and toppings. The boredom problem disappears because the combinations are endless.

This book is built around that insight. Every chapter is about building components and assembly systems, not about cooking the same dish five times in a row.

Chapter 1 · Page 3

The $50/Week Formula

Eating well for $50/week per person is not a deprivation budget. It's a planning budget. The difference is that people who spend $200/week on food aren't eating better — they're buying more that gets thrown away, and eating out when the fridge looks empty at 7pm.

The formula: $20 on protein (2 lbs chicken thighs, 1 lb ground beef or lentils), $15 on carbs and vegetables (rice, sweet potatoes, broccoli, spinach, frozen peas), $10 on pantry staples (olive oil, soy sauce, garlic, canned tomatoes), $5 on flavor (lemons, fresh herbs, one specialty item per week).

The grocery list templates in Chapter 7 are pre-built around this formula for three different protein profiles. Print the one that fits your diet and walk in with it...

That's 3 of 25 pages. The other 22 cover the 90-min batch schedule, freezer rules, lunch assembly, and print-ready templates.

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What readers say

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"The sauce system is the thing nobody talks about. I've been eating the same chicken and rice for three months and I'm genuinely not bored. The Garlic Soy alone is worth the $9."

T.R. · Software developer, Seattle
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"I used to spend $280–$300/month on work lunches. Now I spend about $50/week on groceries and eat better. First month savings covered the ebook about 30 times over."

K.S. · Marketing manager
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"Read it on a Sunday, did my first prep that same afternoon. The 90-minute schedule actually takes 90 minutes — not 4 hours like every other meal prep article claims."

D.M. · Grad student, Boston

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