You don’t need to spend all Sunday cooking or fill the fridge with labelled containers. The realistic version of batch cooking is simpler: whenever you cook, make double. A stew, a vegetable soup or a rice dish is just as good the next day.
Why it works: most bad food decisions get made when you’re hungry and nothing’s ready. Having ‘something decent already made’ in the fridge removes exactly that moment. Fewer takeaways, less ultra-processed food, zero willpower required.
Start today: on Sunday, put a tray of vegetables in the oven while you do something else. Three meals sorted.