A Kinder Way to Think About Meal Prep

For a long time, meal prep felt like something I was supposed to be good at.

You know the version: perfectly portioned containers, rigid plans, an unspoken promise that if you just organized food “correctly,” everything else would fall into place.

That version never worked for me.

Real life is louder than that. Workdays run long. Energy changes. Some weeks are fueled by routine and others by survival. And the mental load of deciding what to eat can feel heavier than the eating itself.

Over time, I realized what I actually needed wasn’t a better plan — it was less pressure.

I wanted something that helped me think ahead without punishing me when plans changed. Something that offered structure, but didn’t demand perfection. Something I could use on a good week and a hard one.

So I made it.

This week, I quietly released Coach Sunshine’s Simple Meal Prep Guide — not as a diet, not as a reset, and definitely not as a set of rules to follow “correctly.”

It’s a flexible, real-life guide built around one simple idea:
meal prep should support your life, not control it.

Inside are tools, explanations, and optional references — all meant to reduce decision fatigue around food. You can use one page or the whole guide. You can skip the parts that don’t serve you. You can come back to it later.

That’s intentional.

Because consistency doesn’t come from doing everything perfectly. It comes from having something you’re not afraid to return to.

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by food planning, or tired of approaches that feel all-or-nothing, this guide exists now. And if it’s not what you need right now, that’s okay too.

Sometimes the win isn’t changing how we eat…

Sometimes it’s changing how we treat ourselves while we figure it out.

If you’re curious, the guide I mentioned is here: Coach Sunshine’s Simple Meal Prep Guide 🌞