Sure, prepping the same meal to reheat and eat night after night may make life simpler, but it’s also sucking the joy out of, ...

However recently I’ve become seduced by the aesthetic fridges packed with ... media feeds – on Instagram alone the hashtag ‘meal prep’ is attached to 15 million posts.

the aesthetic of abundance can be an Instagram tour of a home pantry that looks like a supermarket, or a fridge full of individual portions of meal prep. The Greek philosopher Epicurus is often ...