The Texas Roadhouse Menu Item That's Essentially A Week Of Meal Prep

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Meal prepping is a hack that can come in handy for anyone with a busy life. In fact, this trick has the potential to save both precious time in the mornings as you get ready for work or school and precious funds from your bank account as you lessen your chances of grabbing pricey takeout for lunch or dinner. Unfortunately, meal prep comes with its own set of problems, namely the need to buy bulk groceries and the time spent on preparing and batching large amounts of food for a whole week of meals. While Costco does offer prepared meals (we ranked them from worst to best, if you're interested), these don't necessarily generate much excitement if you stock up on enough to feed a single adult all week long. Enter: Texas Roadhouse, currently America's top casual restaurant.

Thanks to our viewing of a TikTok reel and a quick scan of its menu, we now know that Texas Roadhouse offers a selection of reasonably-priced Family Pack dinners. These huge feasts are intended to serve multiple people, but they are also the perfect size to break up and separate for a whole week of lunches or dinners for a single person. What's more, the price beats several trips through the drive-thru. Sure, you could spend the time and money to cook up some rather boring chicken and rice at home, but what fun is that? Everyone knows that the signature Texas Roadhouse seasoning makes steaks (and everything else) taste good, and who wouldn't rather have a well-rounded restaurant meal every day for a week?

Texas Roadhouse Family Packs are meant to serve between three and four people and include your choice of several signature main dishes, like Chicken Critters (that is, chicken tenders), cheeseburgers, pulled pork, ribs, BBQ chicken, or beef tips. Depending on your location, there may be more or fewer options, and of course, pricing may vary. As of the time of this writing, these packs range in price between $39.99 and $49.99. All meals come with two 16-ounce sides, a dozen of the restaurant's beloved yeast rolls with cinnamon butter, and a family-sized salad in your choice of house or Caesar. Surely, you can agree that it's all a generous amount of food that allows one person to portion out a week of meals!

For optimal meal prep, we like containers with more than one compartment so we can keep moist and dry foods separate. Rubbermaid Brilliance meal prep containers are BPA-free, can hold over 2.5 cups of food, and come in a pack of five which makes them ideal for preparing a whole week's worth of work or school meals. Combined with a late Sunday order from Texas Roadhouse, you could have five delicious days of good eatin' to anticipate, with no more effort than it takes to place an online order, pick up the food, and break it up into equal portions.