Charcuterie Snack Box

This week I decided to go back and review my original inquiry and assess how much I have learned about what quick, easy and healthy recipes store well for multiple days. This was also to see if I needed to modify any of my future recipes to meet my learning goals for my inquiry.

What I discovered this week was that I have been putting a lot of effort into my recipes. Sometimes they aren’t always as quick and easy as many university students have time for. I realized that I should try giving myself a bit of a break when it comes to finding super exciting recipes, and try to go back my original inquiry, which was finding what quick, easy and healthy recipes store well for multiple days. So, this week I decided to create a meal prepped lunch that truly only took 5-10 minutes and is super affordable and healthy! One I think we can all make. A charcuterie snack box! One thing to note about this recipe is the apples will brown after only a few hours. Sometimes this throws me off, so I cut up half an apple every morning, and ate the other half for breakfast. This still only took an extra 3 minutes out of my morning. I promise this recipe is the easiest one on my page so far!

Charcuterie Snack Box

Ingredients

• Regular or vegan pepperoni
• White cheddar cheese cubes (or any cheese of your choice)
• 1 mini hummus
• 1 mini cucumber
• 1/2 apple
• Peanut butter or almond butter
• Walnuts (or any nuts)

Instructions

• Cut the pepperoni and cheese into pieces.
• Place the hummus and cucumber into the meal prep container. Arrange your cheese cubes and pepperoni pieces all around them.

• Cut your apple into slices and lay them on top of the cucumber. I made sure the meat and the cheese went on the bottom so they didn’t “sweat” onto my apples.
• Put some peanut butter or almond butter into a little salad dressing containers and put it on top of your hummus.

• Put the walnuts wherever you have space and put the lid of the meal prep container.

I knew this recipe would be easy to make as it doesn’t require a lot of preparation. However, I did have to cut up fresh apple slices every morning because brown apples kind of put me off. I’ll still eat them, but I’d rather take that extra 3 minutes in the morning to have fresh looking ones. I also reused the same peanut butter container and just refilled it every day so I didn’t have to wash a ton of tiny containers. With these points in mind, I would rate this recipe a 3/5 for storing purposes and quality after 5 days, but 5/5 for efficiency. This took me very little time to prepare and it kept me full for the entire day. Not to mention, it has a lot of the necessary food groups in it. Something I learned from this experience was that I didn’t need to be putting so much time and effort into finding these big exciting recipes that I wanted to showcase. I began to stray from my inquiry a little bit, and this recipe made me realize that I need to showcase more quick and easy recipes, as the ones I have been doing have been consuming a lot of my time. With that being said, do you guys have any ideas for future meal preps that take under 20 minutes to prepare?

Special thank to Allie Reefer on Unsplash for the introduction photo

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