[codingdave]

We keep a pantry full of pretty much all the non-perishables we'd need. We buy in bulk, and order more when we run low. We also have a couple freezers full of meat, which we fill as we or our neighbors harvest livestock, and we add a deer or two in hunting season. Then we see what is ready to come out of the gardens, what we gather in our woods and our fields, what we get from our local CSA. We freeze, can, or dehydrate any fruits and veggies that we aren't going to eat right away.

So our weekly prep is mostly just filling in gaps - we run to the store when we realize we need some cheese or something like that.

So I guess the answer is that weekly meal prep isn't really a concern if you set up your life to just have the raw ingredients always available and know how to cook from scratch.