Rich Howard first started meal prepping in high school when he had special dietary needs as a wrestler. He continued his keto meal prep habit into college and has opted for keto meal prep or high protein versions at times depending on his goals. As a busy father and grad student, he continues to meal prep to save tie and money while eating healthy. His passion for meal prep led him to start the site mealprepify.com where he shares tips for meal prepping as well as recipes for meal prep.

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Cheryl McColgan: Hey everyone, welcome back to the Heal Nourish Grow Podcast. I'm really excited to share my guest with you, today. His name is Rich, and he runs a site all about meal prep, and it's really interesting how he got into that. I thought it would be great to chat with him going into the new year, because I know a lot of you are gonna be working on your diets and wondering what you can do to stay on track. So Rich is going to help us out with that today. So welcome, and tell everybody a little bit about sort of your background and how you got to be interested in meal prepping.

Rich Howard: Yeah, thank you, Cheryl, it's great to be here. Yeah, my name is Rich. I have been meal prepping for as long as I've been cooking. I grew up in Austin, Texas, and I wrestled in high school, that was my high school sport. One of the weird things about wrestling is that you have to have weight classes, and so as a high school kid, I was having to diet and eat my own food, and so really, it just started out of necessity. My mom didn't wanna cook separate food for me every night, and I don't blame her at all. And so, if the family is having spaghetti, then I would get on the grill and make chicken and rice.
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Rich Howard: And after doing that several times, I realized quickly, I don't like cooking all that much at the time, and I don't have time, with studying and sports and practices and having to bring food to school that was on track with the diet, so I just started making all my own food. And I had some particular kind of food dietary needs at the time that I couldn't really even... I couldn't even buy food from restaurants really or from grocery stores. So for wrestling, I'd have my water weight down, and so I basically had a no-sodium diet. And if you've ever cooked or tracked sodium, anything you eat from anywhere is really high. And so out of necessity, I just started meal prepping.

Rich Howard: I would cook a bunch of food on Sunday nights for the school week as a Sophomore and Junior in high school, and that's really where I got started. And then, really, I just kind of continued since then. In college, I would... It is the same kind of deal, I wanted to save money and wanted to eat healthy. And so, I would cook a bunch of food on the weekend and eat it in between class and during the week and for dinner,