About r/MealPrepSunday
In its own words:
/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!
Community guide
r/MealPrepSunday (#147, about 5.8 million) centres batch cooking and meal-prep planning—Sunday-branded prep culture among food subs. Collected rules cover Exercise good reddiquette; Keep an open mind; OC Only; Read the FAQ. Sample ~12.8 ppd (65 posts). Sample mix: text:22, gallery:17, image:15, link:8.
Fit
Meal-prep shares and tips. Rules: Exercise good reddiquette; Keep an open mind; OC Only; Read the FAQ; Posts must be meal-prep related; Include the recipe or ingredients; No advertising; No bots. Sample ~12.8 ppd.
Versus Cooking and EatCheapAndHealthy
Cooking is general technique; EatCheapAndHealthy is budget meals. MealPrepSunday is about preparing meals ahead when that matches the post.
Practical pointers
Follow on-sub rules for photos, recipes, and promo. No invented ‘Sunday-only’ posting culture beyond the name without a supporting rule.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Mar 10, 2015, which makes it 11 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 1,598 subscribers (+0.03%). It sits just behind r/AskWomen (#146) and ahead of r/FortniteBR (#148) in our ranking.
What sets r/MealPrepSunday apart
Relative to its huge audience, posting is calm — around 2.2 new posts a day per million members, which puts it in the quietest fifth of the Top 100. A good post has less competition here.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/MealPrepSunday went up from 5,758,714 to 5,770,028 subscribers (+11.3K, +0.20%). That is about 257 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/MealPrepSunday talks about
We read the titles of 65 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “meal”, “prep”, “chicken”, “containers” and “help”. Other frequent themes are breakfast, prepping, lunch, burritos, rice and lunches. Recurring phrases include “meal prep”, “meal prepping”, “buffalo chicken” and “chicken dip”. By format, 34% are text posts, 26% are galleries and 23% are images.
Popular post flairs: Question (6), Meal Prep Picture (6), High Protein (5), Advice Needed (3), Other (2), Frugal (2).
Activity and best time to post
r/MealPrepSunday gets about 13 new posts a day. The public archive holds 104,762 posts and 972,124 comments in total, about 9.3 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Sunday (20 posts) and the quietest was Wednesday (6). Posting peaks around 12:00 UTC and is lowest around 04:00 UTC.
Rules of r/MealPrepSunday
The moderators of r/MealPrepSunday list 8 rules. In short:
- Exercise good reddiquette
- Keep an open mind
- OC Only
- Read the FAQ
- Posts must be meal-prep related
- Include the recipe or ingredients
- No advertising
- No bots
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/MealPrepSunday and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How many members does r/MealPrepSunday have?
r/MealPrepSunday has 5,770,028 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #147 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 11,314 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
When was r/MealPrepSunday created?
r/MealPrepSunday was created on Mar 10, 2015, so it has been around for 11 years.
Is r/MealPrepSunday still active?
Yes. r/MealPrepSunday gets about 13 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 104,762 posts and 972,124 comments. In a sample of 65 recent posts we counted 59 different authors.
What is the best time to post in r/MealPrepSunday?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Sunday and the quietest Wednesday, and most posts arrive around 12:00 UTC, with the fewest around 04:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What kind of posts are on r/MealPrepSunday?
The community describes itself as: “/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 …” Recent post titles often mention meal, prep, chicken, containers and help. Most posts are text posts (34%).
Is r/MealPrepSunday SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/MealPrepSunday as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/MealPrepSunday?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/MealPrepSunday accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos, galleries and polls enabled. It has 8 posted rules, starting with: “Exercise good reddiquette”; “Keep an open mind”; “OC Only”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/MealPrepSunday?
Communities with similar topics include r/AskReddit (60M), r/mealtimevideos (2M), r/Frugal (6.9M), r/askscience (26.4M) and r/NoStupidQuestions (7.6M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/MealPrepSunday.