Here's some of my meals that I cook for the week.
I spend about an hour to an hour and a half doing all this. Each container has the following:
-300g of chicken breast
-17 almond seeds
-67g of mixed veggies
-100g of basmali white rice
-1 whole egg
Since I cook about ten of these a session to last me the whole working week (two a day), I'll start by cooking the rice. Super easy, five cups of rice, about seven cups of water and a rice maker? You're done. Chuck it all in and turn it on.
The eggs are super easy too. I have one of those auto egg boiler things. Can cook up to seven eggs at a time. Put all the eggs in, pour enough water in and turn it on. It'll start buzzing super loud when it's ready.
While the rice and eggs are cooking, I'll prepare the containers. What I do is I get out all the plastic containers (so ten) and I'll fill each container with alfoil, but enough alfoil so it can wrap around the chicken like some kinda... alfoil burrito thing.
Once that's done, I'll work on the chicken. With the chicken, I buy roughly 4kg worth of chicken breast. I take some chicken out and I'll weigh each one on a small, electronic set of weight scales. I go for roughly 300g, so if it's a little over or under it's all good. Once I have enough chicken breast for one container, I'll cut it up into bite size chunks, then put it all in the container. Rinse and repeat about nine more times.
After the chicken is ready, I'll put the veggies on in the microwave oven. In all honesty my veggies are not grand, I just use frozen veggies that come in small satchels. It takes about five minutes to cook all my veggies. During this time the eggs will usually be done, so using a set of tongs I'll take the eggs out and put 'em all in a large container of water to cool them down. I'll put on three more eggs to make ten eggs in total, as one egg goes in each container. The rice is usually done by this point, so I'll turn off the rice cooker and let it sit.
So the eggs should be done, the rice should be done and the veggies should be done. Now we go back to the chicken. What I'll do now is to give the chicken some flavour, I'll get a small bowl out and pour in a particular sauce (in this case, I had one bowl of mushroom sauce and one bowl of satay sauce). I'll then get one container of chicken and very lightly marinate it in the bowl, then put it back in the container, inside the alfoil wrapping. Do this for all the chickens. After that, you can add in additional herbs/spices... for the mushroom sauce chicken I used Italian herbs and for the satay chicken I used chicken salt.
Go to the oven (in my case, a microwave oven) and pre-heat it for 180 degrees Celsius (356 Farenheit). While the oven is pre-hitting, carefully pull out each chicken that's packed away in the alfoil, and wrap 'em all up and seal them. When you have all ten chickens wrapped/sealed, put 'em all on a steel tray and slide the tray into the oven once it's pre-heat. Cook for 35 minutes.
As the chicken is cooking, pour about one and a quarter cups of rice into each of the containers. Put in your veggies in all the containers, chuck an egg in each container, throw in your almond seeds, then go play some Bloodborne while you wait for the chicken to finish.
Once the microwave goes ding, take out the chickens, carefully unwrap the alfoils and use a set of tongs to put the chicken into your containers. After it's all packed, put 'em in the fridge and you have ten microwaveable meals for the week.
