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r/MealPrepSunday

Meal Prep Sunday. /r/MealPrepSunday is a subreddit dedicated to meal prepping. This is a space to discuss all things about meal prepping. Whether you're looking to prep to save time, money, or to get in those gains, this is the place to ask questions, get answers, and share your meal preps with the world of Reddit! Happy prepping! Founded 2015 · 5.8M members

5.8M members. The best post we have captured here reached 43.3K upvotes, which works out to 8 per 1,000 members.

8peak upvotes per 1,000 members
5.8Mmembers
43.3Kbest post
1.3Kmost comments
101posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

89%
Image 89% Video 5% Gallery 4% Link 1% Text 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Meal Prep Picture 17 Meal Prep Humor 8 Frugal 3 Vegetarian 3 Recipe 2 High Protein 2 Other 1 Step by Step 1 Advice Needed 1 Vegan 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

My roommate and I both meal prep, so we got this

↑ 43.3K 💬 1.3K image 2019

I know it’s not a lot, but this is my first day in 4 months not eating fast food at lunchtime!

↑ 31.8K 💬 634 image 2019

Soup jars for lunch! Just add hot water and wait 5 min

↑ 29K 💬 391 image 2020

108 meals for $246.31 using Costco chickens [US]

↑ 28.4K 💬 1.1K gallery 2026

We've all been there

↑ 27.8K 💬 135 image 2019

I graduate in 3 days and had 12 meal swipes to use before they expire. Am I doing this right?

↑ 25.4K 💬 797 image 2018

My sister is coming home from heart surgery with a sodium restriction so I filled her freezer with homemade vegetarian comfort food

↑ 24.9K 💬 428 image 2019

I thought i was so clever using parchment paper to wrap my burritos. I should have thought this through

↑ 24K 💬 435 image 2018

I may have meal prepped a little too close to the sun.

↑ 23K 💬 826 gallery 2025

Pasta featuring an eager cat

↑ 21.1K 💬 173 image 2020

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/MealPrepSunday, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/MealPrepSunday?
r/MealPrepSunday ("Meal Prep Sunday") describes itself this way: /r/MealPrepSunday is a subreddit dedicated to meal prepping. This is a space to discuss all things about meal prepping. Whether you're looking to prep to save time, money, or to get in those gains, this is the place to ask questions, get answers, and share your meal preps with the world of Reddit! Happy prepping. It was founded in 2015 and has 5.8M members.
How many members does r/MealPrepSunday have?
r/MealPrepSunday has about 5.8M members. ViralHunt has tracked 101 of its posts; the biggest reached 43.3K upvotes, which is 8 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/MealPrepSunday?
"My roommate and I both meal prep, so we got this" reached 43.3K upvotes and 1.3K comments in 2019, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/MealPrepSunday.
What subreddits are similar to r/MealPrepSunday?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/interesting, r/JustGuysBeingDudes, r/freefolk, r/antiwork, r/urbanexploration, r/youseeingthisshit.
What kind of posts do best on r/MealPrepSunday?
Of the posts we hold, 89% are image posts and 5% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/MealPrepSunday?
Across 101 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 00:00 UTC (13K avg upvotes), Sunday at 11:00 UTC (12.2K avg upvotes), Sunday at 17:00 UTC (11.3K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/MealPrepSunday?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/MealPrepSunday has 16K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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