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Meal prep is a way of life for many of us, helping to streamline food options and save time (and money). Just how long can you leave your prepped meals and ingredients in the fridge?

When it comes to meal prep, there are so many different recipes and variations that it’s impossible to keep track of everything. A few popular ingredients, however, seem to show up more often than most. Why are things like chicken, quinoa, and overnight oats so popular? It’s partly because of their versatility, but also because they’re among the foods that last the longest. Here’s how long you can keep these and other meal-prep faves in your fridge—plus how to store them for the greatest longevity.

Chicken

Of all the meats out there, chicken is by far the most popular for meal prep recipes. It’s a tasty lean protein that can be cooked with any number of additional ingredients and spices, making it a versatile choice for meal preppers.

If you’re prepping chicken for your meals, here’s how long you can keep it at each stage:

• Raw and frozen: Raw chicken can stay in the freezer for up to nine months (or 12 months if it’s a whole chicken).
• Raw and refrigerated: Raw chicken can stay in the fridge for one or two days; by then, it needs to be cooked or tossed out.
• Cooked and frozen: Cooked chicken can last in the freezer for between two and six months, depending on how it’s prepared.
• Cooked and refrigerated: For meal prep, storing cooked chicken in the fridge is the most common technique. You can safely leave chicken in the fridge for three to four days.

Store cooked chicken, on its own or as part of a prepared meal, in airtight containers. Raw chicken can stay in its original packaging until used—just wrap it in plastic wrap or paper towels to keep it from leaking on anything else.

Quinoa

Quinoa makes a delicious grain base for many meal-prep recipes. It’s versatile and easy to make, and it’s also super easy to store all week.

If you’re pre-cooking plain quinoa to use as a base throughout the week, you can store it in an airtight container for up to a week. If you mix it with other ingredients right away, the shelf life might go down a little bit due to the interactions between ingredients. Still, it’s a safe bet that the quinoa is good for at least three to five days after cooking.

You can cook quinoa in a regular pot with a well-fitted lid, or use an Instant Pot for super-fast cooking, depending on what your specific recipe calls for.

Vegetables

Veggies are a key part of most meal prep, and they’re pretty easy to handle. In most cases, prepping vegetables to use later in the week is just about cutting them up rather than actually pre-cooking them.

Once you’ve sliced, diced, and chopped your vegetables, store them in airtight containers. The exact length of time each vegetable is good for can vary. Here are a few general guidelines:

• Pre-washed vegetables, particularly leafy greens, go bad faster than unwashed ones because of the excess moisture.
• Sturdy, crisp vegetables (like celery, carrots, broccoli, and cauliflower) can last up to a week in the fridge.
• Softer vegetables (like squashes, bell peppers, and tomatoes) last around three or four days in the fridge.

Overnight Oats

Making overnight oats is practically a rite of passage for meal preppers. The easy, mix-it-and-leave-it approach to preparing oats typically produces a tasty breakfast that is easy to customize a million different ways. You can experiment with different nut butters, yogurts, milks, and mix-ins to find a recipe you love—and then you can make enough to last a full work week.

That’s right, overnight oats can last up to five days when kept in an airtight jar or other container. Be aware, though: the oats will continue to absorb liquid and soften. That means that your first day or so of oats will still have some “bite” to the texture, while later in the week you might find yourself with softer, creamier oats.

Egg Bites

Eggs are a great protein to start your day or give you a midday lunch boost, but cooking them fresh every day just isn’t an option for many people. Meal-prepped egg bites or egg “muffins” combine eggs with mix-ins such as veggies, cheese, ham, or other options, then can be stored to grab quickly during the week. You can make them in full-sized muffin tins, or you can use a specially-designed egg bite maker for bite-sized mini versions.

If you’re whipping up egg bites to cover meals for the week ahead, you’re in luck. Cooked egg bites can stay in the fridge for up to four days, although the texture may get a little firmer and/or drier near the end.

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Meal prepping can be a big help in your busy life, but it’s important to know just how long your prepared foods can last. Keep these tips in mind every time you make your favorite meal prep recipes, and you’ll be good to go.

These days, Republicans are making no secret of their plans to use a Hunter Biden inquiry next year as a platform to go after his father — after years of brushing off conflicts of interest within Trump’s family. No evidence has emerged to show that the business dealings of Hunter Biden, who’s faced a years-long federal investigation, affected his father’s decisions as president.

GOP lawmakers are pushing ahead anyway, planning a sprawling probe that will reach into the ethics of Hunter Biden’s artwork sales and other business deals, as well as policy decisions by the Biden administration.

“I’m not exactly sure I see a big difference” between starting with Hunter and incorporating Joe Biden from the getgo, said Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.), a member of the Oversight Committee, which is expected to take the lead on a House inquiry into Hunter Biden. “Obviously, you start with Hunter … [but] it appears as though the president is involved as well, and it’s something you’re going to have to look into.”

The president’s son has long fueled a conservative media fixation on par with Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified material, and a House majority would help Republicans try to push their narrative into the mainstream. But GOP plans to poke at Hunter Biden may have to compete with a growing GOP appetite for an in-depth House inquiry into the DOJ’s scrutiny of Trump, particularly if Republicans decide to form a select committee instead of launching an investigation through the Judiciary Committee.

Conversations Tuesday with more than a half-dozen House Republicans revealed deep concern about constituents panicked and infuriated by the FBI’s daylong Mar-a-Lago search.

“The base has lost its mind. If Trump decides to call them to arms, then I think he could get another Jan. 6,” one senior House Republican said in an interview, speaking on condition of anonymity.

But before this week’s law enforcement activity against Trump, House Republicans had been homing in on Hunter, and several name-checked him in their response to the FBI’s search. Months before an election that will determine whether they control the House, GOP lawmakers and committee aides are already doing prep work, including planning hearings, collecting documents and nailing down potential witnesses — including former business associates and banks.

Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), set to chair the Oversight Committee if Republicans win the majority, said he’ll be ready to formally launch an investigation in January, when the new Congress is sworn in.

“We’re going to have a great hearing early on the potential wrongdoing within the Biden family,” Comer said in an interview. “The fear is that these shady business dealings have compromised the president.”

Comer declined to name the witnesses he’d like to call, simply saying they’d be some of Hunter Biden’s former business associates. Hunter Biden will be invited to testify and it is “very possible” the First Son would be subpoenaed, he added.

The Oversight chair-in-waiting is prepared to answer critics who say his work is manufactured to ding Joe Biden; he insisted that House Republicans wouldn’t investigate Hunter Biden as a “political witch hunt.” But other Republicans are more open in depicting their broader oversight as a way to tee up a 2024 election where they hope to win back the White House.

“That will help frame up the 2024 race, when I hope and I think President Trump is going to run again. And we need to make sure that he wins,” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who’s set to chair the Judiciary Committee under a 2023 GOP majority, said at a CPAC conference in Texas late last week.

It would hardly be the first time a congressional investigation has converged with presidential politics, nor the first Hill investigation into Hunter Biden and by extension the wider Biden family. Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) conducted a joint probe of Hunter Biden heading into the 2020 election, sparking warnings from fellow Republicans about unintentionally spreading Russian disinformation.

But House Republicans are planning a more sweeping look: Comer fired off a laundry list of topics to delve into, including Hunter Biden’s work in China and an ethics agreement governing Hunter Biden’s art sales that’s been questioned by Obama-era officials.

Then-White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters last year that ethics arrangements governing sales of the art were “not White House arrangements; they’re arrangements between Hunter Biden’s representatives and ones that we, certainly, were made aware of.”

Comer is using material from a laptop linked to Hunter Biden that’s attracted controversy, though he underscored that he’s interested in the Biden son’s finances, not salacious personal details.

In addition, Oversight Committee Republicans are still seeking Treasury Department suspicious activity reports relevant to Hunter Biden, though they’ve complained of an inability to obtain the material without Democratic support.

Treasury responded by indicating that its policy of requiring a committee chair or majority of members to OK requests for those reports applies regardless of political party. Some Democrats have also bristled over the department’s handling of suspicious activity reports.

“Since the beginning of this Administration, Treasury has made SARs available in response to authorized committee requests and continues to engage on the process with any individual members seeking information,” Treasury spokesperson Mike Gwin said in a statement.

Democrats are already excoriating the GOP’s investigative plans, accusing Republicans of selectively attacking Biden while ignoring ethical lapses during the Trump years.

“To borrow an old line, every time these Republicans open their mouths, it’s a noun, a verb, and Hunter Biden. They are pushing false conspiracy theories in a desperate effort to attack the President personally and politically, all in service — as they have admitted — of assisting another Trump campaign. And the public will see it for what it is: an abuse of power,” a person close to Biden said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Current Oversight Committee Chair Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) said in a statement that if Comer “is concerned about presidential conflicts of interest, I would welcome him to join me in investigating taxpayer funds spent at Trump properties, serious deficiencies in President Trump’s financial disclosures, foreign government spending at the former Trump Hotel,” and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner’s ties to Saudi Arabia.

That criticism doesn’t faze House Republicans, who view this week’s search of Mar-a-Lago as further evidence that federal investigations are biased against conservatives — despite the role that one played in derailing Clinton’s 2016 campaign.

“When contrasted with their actions following Clinton-inspired Russian collusion allegations, [the] Clinton [email] server and Hunter Biden, the impression is strong that the FBI is selective and politicized,” said Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), who represents a swing district.

And Comer, when asked about critics who cite Trump world conflicts of interest, described those as well-trodden ground by others.

“It is not like they are disagreeing on Hunter Biden,” Comer said, adding that “what I say is, ‘There are plenty of people investigating the Trump kids.’”

Olivia Beavers contributed.

Even for 2021’s bloated fundraising environment, the cloud data sector was among the frothiest.

Enticed by the rapid adoption of the cloud, venture capital investors clamored to fund startups building the infrastructure to support the gigantic quantities of data being generated. Databricks (No. 2 on Cloud 100 list), Fivetran (No. 27) and Dbt Labs (No. 79) were among the biggest names that skyrocketed in valuation. The most in-demand startups raised money in ways previously unfathomable, like securing three rounds of funding within 12 months or obtaining a billion-dollar valuation before revenue had reached $1 million. “A lot of companies that actually have very interesting tech, they fundamentally broke their businesses because they over-raised,” says Jonathan Lehr, general partner at Work-Bench, a seed-stage firm that invests in the sector.

Now, with later stage funding firmly cooled down, many of these companies with huge swaths of cash on hand are reorienting—though not always in the same way. Forbes gathered revenue data, some of which was previously undisclosed, and caught up with five of the leading data unicorns to discuss how they’ve updated their business strategies.

For Databricks, last valued at $38 billion in August 2021, the market downturn provides the chance to move faster while competitors—both public companies which must answer to both fickle Wall Street investors and smaller startups with shakier financials—are forced to slow down, says cofounder and CEO Ali Ghodsi. The company, which makes software to store and analyze business data, raised $1.6 billion in capital one year ago and recently reached $1 billion in annualized revenue. “We’re not facing the pressures that come with being public,” Ghodsi says. “That’s why we’re not doing layoffs, and we’re hiring 2,500 people this year.”

Ghodsi says he plans to continue hiring and hunting for early-stage acquisitions. He estimates Databricks will have five years of runway remaining even after the spree. “I think we’re going to see a lot of Series A, B and C companies that are going to have a difficult time if the recession hits,” he says of potential acquisition targets.

His sentiment echoes a belief common among founders and investors across the ecosystem that consolidation is coming. Mike Volpi, a partner at Index Ventures, predicts that Databricks and Snowflake—a former No. 1 on the Cloud 100, which is now among the most resilient public software stocks, with a market cap of $54 billion—could eventually try to gobble up unicorns of the size of companies like Fivetran ($5.6 billion valuation) and Starburst Data ($3.4 billion). Smaller companies, then, could be even easier targets. “When you’re worth hundreds of millions of dollars but have less than $2 million or $3 million of revenue, you can’t always catch up to that [valuation], even if you cut burn,” Lehr says.

So it’s no surprise that other data startups with less-bountiful revenues are acting with greater caution than Ghodsi—even the hottest companies in last year’s VC market:

• Dbt Labs, which raised at a $4.2 billion valuation in February, had about $15 million in annualized revenue when it was courting investors in late 2021, according to three sources. One of the people said the company reported plans to reach $45 million in revenue in 2022. The company declined to comment on the revenue figures.
• Monte Carlo announced at a $1.6 billion valuation in May but two sources say the company was making around $5 million to $7 million in annualized revenue while it was fundraising in late 2021. Lior Gavish, cofounder and chief technology officer, says revenue has since reached double-digit millions, but declined to provide additional details.
• Airbyte, which raised at a $1.5 billion valuation in December 2021, was making less than $1 million in annualized revenue, Forbes reported at the time.

Dbt Labs, which is debuting on the Cloud 100 list this year, was among the startups most sought after by VC firms amid the funding frenzy. The startup, which sells software to make raw data usable for analytics purposes, raised $414 million in four funding rounds between April 2020 and February 2022. The company has grown to 330 employees from 25 at the time of that first funding round two years ago. But cofounder and CEO Tristan Handy says he recently made the decision to cut hiring targets by 7% to 8%, mainly for go-to-market staff, after conducting an internal audit to extend the runway from three years to four.

Handy says he also plans to launch fewer big projects. “Let’s get better at what we’ve already launched,” he says. “If you make these small adjustments in plans, they actually matter a lot,” he says, adding that “we have not and will not do layoffs.”

For companies like Dbt Labs, which raised consecutive funding rounds months apart prior to the market downturn, extending runway also comes as an attempt to now stave off fundraising again for years. “You want to be raising in favorable markets,” Handy says. “We don’t have to raise, so why shouldn’t we wait?”

Many startups are no longer raising money at the same pace they did prior to this year out of fear of a down round, in which their valuation decreases compared to the previous round. Executives at Airbyte and Monte Carlo, like Handy, say they do not plan to return to the market for at least 24 months. “A lot of companies were generously funded, and we fall under that category,” says Lior Gavish, cofounder and chief technology officer of Monte Carlo, which raised four funding rounds totaling $236 million in a 20-month span ending in May.

Airbyte will likely need to reach $50 million in revenue to guarantee a flat round under current market conditions, says Altimeter partner Jamin Ball, who was a lead investor on the latest funding round. The startup, which helps customers transport data from one place to another, hauled in $181 million in three rounds between March and December of last year. The Series B stage company started with an open-source approach before launching its first paid product in April. It is still “getting there” on its path to $1 million in annual sales, cofounder and CEO Michel Tricot told Forbes in June.

Tricot has made 50 hires this year, more than doubling head count to 80. He plans to hire another 20 in the coming months, at which size he says the company will have about five years of runway. From there, whether Airbyte continues hiring all the way to its planned 200-person target may no longer follow the “grow as fast as you can” mentality. “We need to be a bit defensive, but we cannot be defensive completely,” Tricot says. “Revenue has to compensate for burn. If it doesn’t, then we don’t hire as much, and we’ll take more time to mature the product.”

One exception to down round fears is Fivetran cofounder and CEO George Fraser, who says he plans to raise a funding round within the next two years regardless of market conditions. His startup, which like Airbyte sells software for data transportation, crossed $100 million in annualized revenue late last year, and is on track to to hit $250 million in ARR around the end of this year (that translates to $189 million in GAAP revenue), Fraser tells Forbes. “We’ve done the math, and even under pessimistic assumptions, we’ve grown revenue so much that we’ve outrun the decline of the market,” he boasts.

Still, even if Fivetran increases its valuation and the others weather the funding winter, the companies surveyed are among the most well-capitalized to brace for the storm ahead. That some of them have begun to exercise caution means others among the several hundred startups in the ecosystem will have even tougher decisions to make.

“There are great founders who have a great product, but they might not have enough runway,” says Databricks’ Ghodsi, licking his chops at the prospect of more acquisitions. “Maybe they overhired a bit. Instead of them having to do layoffs, we can provide a home for them. We have the cash balances to do that.”

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With the start of college right around the corner, we know that for incoming Baylor freshmen, life might feel a little crazy, even overwhelming, at the moment.

So Baylor social media surveyed the Baylor Family on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook — What’s the best advice you can give to incoming freshmen as they get ready to come to BU?

More than 500 alumni and friends responded across the three platforms, sharing their thoughts for #BU26. Here are 10 of our favorite words of wisdom and encouragement, in no particular order:

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1. SAY YES. “Do the Welcome Week activities even if you’re an introvert. If fact, especially if you’re an introvert. It’s essential to build relationships. Home sickness will come, and those relationships will ease it so much.”

2. CONNECT WITH PROFESSORS. “Go!! to!! office!! hours!! SO helpful to get to know your professors (& content) better!” Also, “Arrive for class early, sit on the front row, and get to know the professor.”

3. SAY HELLO. “You are worth knowing. Let people in and value their friendships.” Also, “You WILL find your group of people! Just keep saying yes!” and “Say hi to the people around you — often they’re just as nervous and excited to be here as you!”

4. STAY CONNECTED. “Call your parents!! Set up a time and a day for a weekly check-in with each other.”

5. FIND A CHURCH. “Find a church home! There are a lot of great Waco area churches.”

6. ASK FOR HELP. “Utilize Baylor University Counseling Center (BUCC)! College can be scary and stressful — make sure to take care of yourself.”

7. HAVE AN OPEN MIND. “Meet people who are different, from another country, another ethnicity, another part of the country. These four years are about growth; have an open mind and you will truly expand your horizons. Take advantage of all of the free cultural events offered around campus — lectures, musical programs and plays. This is the time to let your interests guide you.”

8. RUN THE LINE. “Don’t fall while running the Baylor line!”

9. IT’S OKAY TO CHANGE YOUR MIND. “The major/degree you start freshman year with doesn’t have to be the one you graduate with. I changed my major three times, but still graduated on time thanks to Maymesters and summer school. Side note: Take advantage of Maymester! They’re awesome, and Waco summers can be a blast.”

10. IMMERSE YOURSELF. “Learn about Baylor’s history and its founders. Learn and sing the alma mater. Attend Dr Pepper Hour and other events like sports and concerts at the School of Music. Walk around the ‘old’ part of campus and take in its beauty. Stop and listen when the Pat Neff carillon plays a song. Eat in the cafeterias. Cherish every moment!”

Sic ’em, #BU26!

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – The University of Illinois women’s golf team will be well represented when the 122nd U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship tees off this week with graduate student Crystal Wang, junior Isabel Sy and sophomore Alise Knudson in the field at Chambers Bay in University Place, Wash., when the event opens play on Monday (Aug. 8).  

Illinois is one of seven programs with the most active collegiate players in the field with their three representatives.

The Illini trio will be part of a field of over 150 golfers that will play 36 holes of stroke play over Monday and Tuesday on the 6,541-yard, par 73 course, with the top 64 players advancing to match play beginning on Wednesday.

Knudson gets things started for the Illini, teeing off at 10:17 a.m. CT with Americans Megan Yang and Laney Frye. Sy then kicks off her tournament at 2:11 p.m. CT and is paired with American Sara Im and Australia’s Maddison Hinson-Tolchard. Wang is in the final group of the day with USA’s Sophie Linder and Canada’s Tiffany Kong and is set to tee off at 4:12 p.m. CT. All three Illini groups will start on hole 10.    

The television coverage for the Women’s Amateur will begin with match play on Wednesday on the Golf Channel. Live scoring for the event can be found at USGA.com.

Sy was the first Illini to qualify for the prestigious tournament with a third-place finish at the Southern California Golf Association qualifier on June 27, before Wang finished in a tie for second at the Miami Valley Golf Association qualifier with a two-under 70 at the Walnut Grove Country Club on July 7. Knudson then finished in a tie for third at the Golf Association of Michigan qualifier at the Saginaw Country Club on July 8, qualifying following a playoff for the final sport after turning in an even-par 71.   

For more Fighting Illini women’s golf news, stay tuned to FightingIllini.com and follow @IlliniWGolf on social media: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook.

Ben Green doesn’t have to worry that Vladimir Putin might cut off Europe’s gas this winter, fret about a seasonal revival of Covid-19, or panic about a looming global food crisis.

Green weaned himself off gas when he purchased the five-hectare (12-acre) grounds of a derelict East German army barracks three years ago: the previous owner, who used it as an outdoor museum for vintage tanks, had gutted the building of water and gas pipes. Green patched up the roof of the refectory and insulated the windows so that temperatures inside don’t drop below 5C at night. He bathes by pouring a bucket of cold water over his head and cooks on a wood-burning stove.

A 49-year-old Englishman with a greying ginger beard and the word “Vegan!” tattooed on his left upper arm, Green is unaffected by fraying supply chains because he lives almost entirely off the vegetables and fruit he grows on his land. If, as Green hopes, friends give him an oil press for his 50th birthday, he will soon be able to cut out the occasional four-mile cycle to the nearest village for cooking oil.

On those trips he does stock up on tea, coffee and chocolate, but they are luxuries he could dispense with in the case of a systemic breakdown of supply chains. The fact his food miles are still measurable at all is due to the bottomless appetite of Fat Tony, Brunhilde Demagogue and Marilyn Monroe, his three Mangalica pigs.

Coronavirus is not a cause for concern – partly because Green is twice vaccinated, in spite of one what one may assume from his enthusiasm for herbal remedies, but mainly because he lives on his own in the middle of a remote spruce forest in Saxony, whose exact coordinates he keeps secret, and rarely receives visitors.

Green does worry about this year’s extreme heat and drought, which is endangering his race to fill his cellar with 100 pots of tomato stew, 180kg of potatoes and 22kg of dried beans in order to survive the winter.

But this summer’s soaring temperatures may also lead more people to recognise Green’s experiment in self-sufficiency as a model to emulate in preparation for a climate catastrophe. A catastrophe, Green believes, which is inevitable and imminent.

“When I was born, we were at 324 parts of carbon dioxide in one million parts of air. This year, we hit 420. Change is coming, and if you’re not prepared for it, it’s going to be fairly awful.

“What we are looking at isn’t the end of humanity but the end of capitalism,” he said, describing climate breakdown as the common denominator behind the various political, food, energy and health crises that have started to converge in recent years. “The collapse is going to happen, and this is the year when people will notice.”

Living in expectation of the apocalypse is no longer a minority position. A YouGov survey carried out at the start of the coronavirus pandemic found almost a third of respondents in the US anticipate a life-changing disaster in their lifetime. A separate poll of five countries in 2019 found that more than half of respondents in France, Italy, the UK and the US think civilisation as they know it will collapse in years to come.

In America, anxiety about a systemic breakdown has fed a trend of “preppers” stocking up on food supplies and arms to look after themselves and their families. During the pandemic, US sellers of underground shelters reported surging demand.

Green, who chronicles his hermit existence on his Instagram account, The Pirate Ben, sees himself in the vanguard of a more positive and less selfish European counter-movement: “happy doomerism”.

“The problem with preppers is: what do they do when the baked beans run out? I don’t want any fear here – that’s where all the white power stuff comes from.”

He doesn’t believe in the need for population reduction, as do some on the fringes where the far right and eco-activism overlap. If people can keep or relearn their knowledge of how to sustainably work the land, Green argues, there should be enough food for everyone: “What I am trying to do is preserve the best of our society for when we come out at the other end.”

There is more of The Good Life than Extinction Rebellion to his decision to rescue his pigs from a butcher – an act of “effective altruism” the three huge pigs are evidently unwilling to repay. Their never-ending hunger for horse muesli mixed with hay pellets, and stale bread rolls from the nearest village bakery, is what still stops him from living a 100% self-sufficient and climate-neutral existence.

“The pigs were the worst decision in my life,” he said, as he gives Tony a doting pat on his muddied back. “It was stupid, and clearly detrimental to my goals.” Eating them would be the logical conclusion, he admits. “But it’s not going to happen.”

To call Green a humanist would be one step too far, he said. Building a self-sufficient post-climate change community requires discipline: he rises at 6am, feeds the pigs, tends to his crops, mows grass, feeds the pigs a second time, and then goes to bed at around 10pm.

And such discipline requires a strong belief in right and wrong. He places the blame for climate change not just with a few powerful individuals, he wrote on one recent blog entry, but all of those who participated in a world-destroying economy: “Every person who works for a fossil fuel company in any capacity should be tried for genocide. From the kids in the post-room to the CEOs.”

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