Most people who try meal prep quit within a month. Not because it's hard — because they're doing it wrong.

Here are the 3 biggest mistakes I see:

1. Cooking without a system. You browse recipes, buy random ingredients, then half of them go bad. The fix: build a recipe database. Know exactly what you're cooking, what you need, and what overlaps between meals.

2. Ignoring nutrition. You're prepping chicken and rice every week because it's "healthy." But you have no idea if you're actually hitting your protein or calorie targets. Track the macros per recipe — it takes 2 minutes and changes everything.

3. Not batching ingredients. If three recipes use onions, peppers, and rice — prep all of that once. Most people cook each meal start to finish. That's a waste of 45+ minutes every Sunday.

I built PlateFull to solve all three. It's a recipe database designed for meal preppers — organize recipes, auto-calculate nutrition, and plan your week without the chaos.

If you're serious about meal prep, come check it out.