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Diet and Nutrition for Muscle Gain: How To Eat To Build Muscle

In this post, we're going to cover exactly what the best foods for muscle gain are, and what dietary factors to consider when gaining muscle. We'll go over how to meal prep for muscle gain as well, so you will have all the knowledge and practical tips you need to make some gains!

5 Ways to Improve Gut Health (Naturally)

In this post, we talk about the best practices to heal your gut, and what steps can be taken to improve gut health. We'll cover everything there is to know about foods to avoid and include for great gut health.

Gut Check: How Optimizing Your Digestive Health Can Boost Overall Wellness

We’ll talk about how the gut influences overall health, and what you can do to address any imbalances that may may be present from checking your gut.

Muscle Gain For Beginners: A Step-by-Step Guide

Are you looking to build muscle but don't know where to start? Look no further! In this step-by-step guide, we'll cover everything you need to know to start gaining muscle as a beginner.

5 Ways To Make Food Preparation Easy For Weight Loss

Learn how to make meal prep healthy, fun and easy whether you’re starting your weight loss journey, or trying to break through a weight loss plateau.

Breakfast. Lunches & Dinners: What are the Best Meals for Weight Loss?

In this article we talk about the impact health eating has on weight loss, and which meals are best to achieve it. We also share some of our favourite meals from the platform.

The Top Foods for Effective and Sustainable Weight Loss

In this article, we give a comprehensive overview of the food groups, and specific foods which are essential for weight loss. We highlight the best foods for weight loss, as well as other weight loss hacks.

What's The Best Diet To Achieve Weight Loss?

We cover what diets are the most suitable for weight loss when considering different factors such as speed and food tolerance. This article aims to help give you a bit more guidance around which diets to choose.

Marvin’s Den Crowdfund FAQs

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Top 5 Reasons to invest in Marvin's Den! Should I join their crowdfunding campaign?

As we move closer to launching our crowdfunding campaign, we wanted to share with you some of our achievements and ambitions, and why it’s a good idea to invest in Marvin’s Den.

What is equity crowdfunding? Why is Marvin’s Den equity crowdfunding?

As we move closer to launching our crowdfunding campaign, we wanted to share with you what it is that we are doing and why we are doing it.

Am I eating well? How to know if your nutrition is on point. Nutritionist answers

There’s many different ways to tell if your diet is serving you, and we’re going to cover the various ways you can tap into them for the feedback that you are moving in the right direction.

5 Ways To Build Good Dietary Habits - A Mindset to Having Good Nutrition

We provide some ways to break down adopting healthy habits and helping them stick.

Should You Eat Late At Night? The effects on your body of having dinner late

Here we look into the science behind eating late at night, and whether it's bad for weight loss, and other aspects of health. We also suggest what foods and portion sizes are ok before bed.

I lost fat and gained muscle as a founder in just 6 weeks!

In this post I go through my 6-week challenge to lose fat and gain muscle. Did I achieve my goals? And most of all how do I look in my after pictures?

I want to lose weight, which health professionals can help me? A complete guide on the differences between doctors, health coaches, nutritionists and dieticians!

Learn about each healthcare professional so you can best support your health and wellness needs. Here, we outline what each one does, so that you can choose which one(s) are best to support your goals.

Not Losing Weight Despite Cutting Calories? Read This to unlock weight loss!

We discuss why simply cutting calories doesn’t work for everyone when it comes to weight loss. We also cover ways around being stuck!

How Much Protein Should You Eat To Gain Muscle? The importance of BCAA's for muscle gain

We cover how much protein to pack into your diet as a whole, breaking it down to each meal and how much protein makes up as a proportion of your diet overall.

What is Fodmap and how to follow a Low Fodmap Diet

You may have heard the word FODMAP thrown around a few times, but maybe you still don’t know quite what it means. FODMAP is an acronym which describes a certain group of foods which can be aggravating for IBS symptoms, and other gastrointestinal disorders and imbalances. 

Exposing most supermarket ready meals: Avoid if you suffer from these conditions

While ready meals from the supermarket are priced really low due to the scale they are produced at, they’re usually not the healthiest. While they are fine to consume for most people every now and then, there are certain health conditions which would mean that you’d be advised to stay clear of them.

Is It Safe To Meal Prep Pasta? Food safety & storage techniques

Pasta is one of the most versatile and convenient ingredients for meal prep because of just how easy it is to batch cook, the ability to pair with various different sauces and the low price. So for many, an unanswered question looms large: is it safe to meal prep pasta (or any starchy food) and store it for later?

Is it safe to meal prep rice? Food safety & storage techniques

Rice and chicken is probably the quintessential meal prep meal. However, rice being a starch has led people to question whether rice is actually safe to consume various days after cooking. In this article, we will discuss whether is it safe to prepare meal prep meals with rice and what you can do to minimise bacterial growth in the rice.

Tips on how to meal prep safely

Whenever handling food, hygiene needs to be at the forefront of our mind. However, whenever Meal prepping proper hygiene practices become even more important because meal prep meals are to be consumed later, therefore bacteria has more time to multiply whereas food to be consumed immediately does not really have that chance. Given this, it is key to minimise the bacteria present in your meal prep meals to begin with and to properly store the meals to slow down bacterial multiplication.

Do prepared meals lose nutrients?

As soon as a fruit or a vegetable is harvested or as soon as an animal dies and is butchered, the inevitable and natural process of degradation starts and while that happens such food does lose nutrients. That applies to prepared meals too as once a food is cooked, the chemical makeup of the food changes and is more likely to degrade even faster. So, yes, prepared meals do lose nutrients! However, the answer to this question isn’t that simple. In this article, we’ll take a deep dive into how prepared meals lose nutrients and how to minimise the loss of nutrients in your meal prep.

The history of Meal Prep - who invented meal preparation?

Meal prep is the craze of the moment, or is it? Given the lack of modern refrigeration, did our ancestors prepare any food ahead of time? The roots of food in human history are deeply embedded and still to a great extent, still unknown. For obvious reasons, we have had food from the start of time. Century by century, human creativity changed how food was cooked, prepped, and eaten. 

How To Meal Prep on An Atkins Diet?

The urge to top everything with an extra slice of cheese, the untimely sugar cravings and the wish to grab the last piece of pizza. Sounds familiar, right? Yes, you're a foodie! However, being a foodie while managing your weight is something that can be managed and is not always a contradiction with losing weight!

A Complete Food Guide on How to Meal Prep for Pregnant Women

In this article, we gathered various studies to provide a complete guide on how to meal prep for pregnant women. Whether doing your own prep at home ordering healthy pre made meals, this article will guide you on what meals a pregnant woman should consume at the various trimesters of the pregnancy. Ordering pre made meals might be a good idea to save you time and energy while maximising nutrition and wellbeing.

The Ultimate Guide to Meal Prep for Disabled People

Managing your diet can get pretty stressful, especially when you are busy. Meal prepping can be the best option for you whether you are disabled yourself or you’re caring for one! This is because meal prepping allows you to get organised and efficient while also boosting health through nutritious and balanced meals!

Are microwavable meals actually bad for you?

Not everyone has time to plan a grocery shop and cook meals from scratch. Not everyone is free to prepare a 3-course meal everyday. That's why busy people prefer going with convenient options such as pre made microwavable meals. But are those meals bad for you? There is a lot of contrasting information on whether microwavable meals and microwaved foods are actually bad for you and in this article we provide an easy guide on this topic.

The Ultimate Guide on How to Reheat Ready Meals & leftovers like a Pro!

This may seem like an easy task for many, but reheating ready pre-made meals is actually not that easy. Ok, sure, the act of actually reheating is very straightforward. The trick is knowing which reheating method works best for different types of meals and how to maximise nutrition, flavour, texture and food safety.

Earth's Day 2022

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. We have great customers and we have great meal preppers too, they always do their bit to help how they can! Meal Prep is an industry which does so much for the community, for people and for the planet. Please join us to thank Holy, Root Kitchen, Love Yourself, Key to Food, Tastily, Wild at Heart, Batch & Thyme, Nourish Fit Food and Potage in wishing our planet Happy Earth Day!

Looking for clean prep up north? Sorted.

In this article we explore the different solutions Marvin's Den helps you with your meal prep cravings! And yes, that is no matter where you live in the UK - whether down south, bang on in the midlands or live up north.

Marvin’s Den gets you all prepped up‍

Are you read to get all prepped up? This customer review gave us a laugh and prompted us to write a blog! Looking for Meal Prep meals to get all prepped up but you do not want to stick to only one Meal Prep company?‍ We’ve got the mobile app for you.

Interviewing Love Yourself Founder & CEO Wojtek Kolan

How to start a Meal Prep business

Are you looking to take your passion for food, health & fitness further by making it your job? ‍Are you noticing a trend and growth in the adoption by people of prepared meals? ‍Do you believe you can add value to the market?‍

Best Meal Prep delivery services in the UK in 2022 | The Ultimate Guide

What should one actually choose as their own meal prep or healthy ready meal provider? Here's the ultimate guide!

Comparing the main types of food delivery

As our lives get busier we turned to 3 ways of dealing with saving time in terms of food. These are takeaway, meal kits and ready meals.In this article, we'll compare these 3 options in terms of price, quality and well-being, convenience, sustainability and taste. By Nick Raimondo.

Is it easy to Meal Prep on your own? What’s the alternative?

Doing your own Meal Prep is hard work, so what's the alternative ? By Nick Raimondo.

Meal Prep and frozen ready meals. Uncovering Meal Prep’s elephant in the room!

There’s an elephant in the room for Meal Prep… Frozen Meal Prep By Nick Raimondo.

Struggling with incorporating more veggies into your diet? Learn how Plant-Based Meal Prep chefs do it in 6 steps!

Cooking veggies is not easy, we get it. However, everyone knows that veggies are the heroes behind healthy meals and a healthy and balanced diet. Nutrition tells us that veggies have almost all vitamins, they promote weight-loss, help prevent cancer and the list goes on. By Nick Raimondo

Top Techniques to improve meals that you'll have later

Meal Prep means saving time so let’s get stuck in straight away with 10 tips & techniques on how to cook proper Meal Prep. By Nick Raimondo