How are Medifast foods and meals stored?
People sometimes ask me how much space is needed for their Medifast meals. Another common concern is whether you need a refrigerator or freezer to keep Medifast meals fresh. You really don’t need a lot of room for Medifast meals. In fact, I’ve heard of people keeping them in boxes under their beds. Most prepackaged meals come in small boxes that contain sachets of the food. People sometimes mistakenly assume that smoothies, puddings, or soups need to be refrigerated. they don’t mix them from dry ingredients that come in bags or boxes. The same goes for brownies, soft serve ice cream, and chili. Now, bars and chips, nachos and puffs don’t need to be mixed or made. For them, you just have to open the package.
If having enough space for storage is an issue for you, you can always break down the boxes and lay out the contents flat. And I even know people who do this not because space is an issue for them, but because they like to space their meals in a way that makes preparation more convenient. For example, I know someone who will separate all of their food and then make a drawer, box, or container for all of their shakes, brownies, puddings, ice cream, and the like. And then there are people who will take this same idea and separate their meals by the day. Therefore, they may have a box or drawer marked for each day of the week. And, for example, in the Monday drawer you can find 2 shake packs, 1 bar, 1 pancake mix and 1 chili mix. Or, in the drawer on Tuesdays you can have a latte, a packet of scrambled eggs, a brownie mix, a ready-to-drink milkshake and cheese balls. And then other people will take the boxes exactly as they were shipped and put everything in their pantry without sorting anything.
It really comes down to your preferences and how you tend to organize yourself. But the bottom line is that you don’t need a lot of storage space even for a large Medifast monthly package. All foods stack flat and don’t require a lot of space. And to save even more space, you can sometimes split the main box of each item and just store the bags. For example, 15 bars come in a box. Nothing says you can’t take those bars out of the box and then store them in a bag that lays perfectly flat. And you don’t need refrigeration or freezer unless you want to store leftovers.