A stocked fridge is the ultimate sign of adulthood, amirite?

Don't just prep cooked, savory food. Cut up raw fruit like melon or mango, so that it's super convenient to snack on.

You can also pre-wash berries and grapes. Note that you can't do this with all fruit; apples and pears will oxidize (turn brown and gross), and smaller stone fruits like peaches and plums might get mushy. Stick to large fruits like melons, mangoes, and papaya. (My watermelon cubes stayed good for 5 days, btw.)

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Not great about planning your take-to-work lunches? Here's a step-by-step guide to doing just that!

On this meal plan, just a few hours of cooking leads to five delicious, packable lunches. Everything is laid out for you, from grocery shopping to cooking to packing instructions. Learn more here.

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Blend a week's worth of smoothies at once, then freeze them in to-go containers and thaw them in the fridge the night before.

OMFG drinking homemade smoothies every morning and not having to clean a blender EVERY MORNING seems too good to be true, but IT'S TRUE! You can do it! Here's how. Natalie freezes her smoothies in mason jars, but I've had some bad luck with glass breaking in the freezer, so I use these plastic freezer jars instead.

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Instead of buying just chicken breasts or thighs, cook a whole chicken and eat it throughout the week...

Here's how to make the best-ever roast chicken.

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