Take this guide, or take all four.

Each guide covers a different part of the routine, so the collection connects planning, prep, storage and serving.

This guide

Plan Before You Prep — a downloadable PDF ebook, yours to keep.

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The complete collection

All four guides

Plan Before You Prep
The Batch Cooking Playbook
Store Smart, Reheat Right
Mix, Match & Make Dinner

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Make meal prep fit the week you actually have. Choose realistic meals, reuse ingredients thoughtfully and build a focused shopping list with a simple planning system you can return to.

The illustrated voice of BATCH & BOARD

Meet Owen.

Name: Plan Before You Prep
Brand: BATCHBOARD
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Owen Mercer · Fictional editorial persona

Owen’s story starts with a familiar scene: a fridge full of good intentions and no clear idea of what to make for dinner.

A note before the story Owen Mercer is a fictional editorial persona created for BATCH & BOARD. His story and illustrated portraits are part of the brand’s creative identity, not a real person’s biography or professional credentials.

Plan.
Prep.
Store.
Mix.

Illustration of Owen Mercer, the fictional BATCH & BOARD editorial character, in a yellow apron — Illustrated character

How the story goes

An ambitious pile of ingredients. A big Sunday. The same lunch, again.

In the world of BATCH & BOARD, he is the home cook who buys an ambitious pile of ingredients, attempts too much on a Sunday and discovers that repeating the same lunch is not quite the solution he imagined.

1The shopAn ambitious pile of ingredients, bought with the best of intentions and no plan for the week.

2The SundayToo much attempted at once. Every pan on the hob, every worktop full, one very long afternoon.

3The week afterFive identical containers. The same lunch, again. Not quite the solution he imagined.

His turning point is smaller

Not a bigger Sunday. A smaller start.

What he tried first

Cook the whole week at once.
Fill every container he owned.
Eat the same thing five days running.

What actually worked

Plan a few meals.
Prepare a few useful components.
Give each container a clear next step.

Not a perfect kitchen. Not an impressive collection of equipment. Just a practical connection between planning, preparing, storing and serving.

Why these guides exist

Meal prep advice often begins in the middle.

With the cooking already organised and the containers already lined up. BATCH & BOARD starts a little earlier and follows the routine a little further. The collection separates four different jobs so you can work on one at a time.