Why I need my meals prepped AHEAD of time

So, many of you out there may be wondering why I am so crazy about having my meals prepped ahead of time. EVERYTHING needs to have zero work that needs to be done in order for me to eat it. It is not because I am so lazy (well laziness may have something to do with it). It is mostly because I pretty much have no willpower and work in someone else's home. As you will see in the photos in this post, I am surrounded by this food daily.

That is frozen HOMEMADE cookie dough in that bag!

 Working in someone else's home is so great for most things, but for eating healthy not so much. While I can make sure that I throw out all of the crappy food at my house, I then walk into a house full of crappy food for a minimum of ten hours a day. This is food that I am allowed to eat. Food like bread, bagels, mac and cheese, Oreos, pasta, ice cream, cookies, cheese, peanut butter, jelly, and lunchmeat.

Ice cream and MORE cookie dough!

Food that I have to make into meals or snacks  for four children four or five times a day. When the kids eat, I have about two minutes to get my food on the table, or my willpower is gone and I eat what they eat. So I prep it ahead of time.

It is so much easier to pop my food into the microwave, or toss some dressing on it and eat it then to have to work for my food. Because I won't do it. Not that I don't WANT to, just that I WON'T. What do you all do to help keep yourself on tack throughout the week?