I’m no meal prepper and you’ll never find me with fully prepped containers of meals in the fridge. Reason being that I like to choose my food for what feels good in the moment. That said, I am absolutely an “element prepper” meaning I regularly have homemade sauces and pestos and prepped veggies in the fridge. This means I can throw together a healthy and more importantly tasty bowl in a matter of minutes, without having to stress or even think about it.

I feel like a broken record saying this as I say it all the time but the absolute biggest factor in being able to avoid junk food with ease (as in naturally you don’t want it, not just fighting willpower) is to make food that actually tastes good. Even the healthiest and most dedicated people on the planet don’t want to eat bland or boring food. It’s a natural human thing to want to eat tasty food, it’s a pleasurable experience, not a means to an end.

So in this recipe I use three separate prepped ingredients; the hemp seed pesto, the boiled eggs and the kale (yes I prep the kale). Kale is a polarising vegetable, and I get it, raw kale i, tough, chewy and not pleasant, but kale prepared correctly on the other hand is moist, hearty and delicious and soaks up flavour like nobody’s business. The other thing about kale is that it is one of the few green leafy veggies that actually gets better once in the fridge overnight, as apposed to spinach and rocket and lettuce which once dressed need to be eaten promptly or they’ll end up soggy and drab messes in the fridge. If you have to prepare food for work, kale is a great one to prep the night before.