Ready to stock your meal prep kitchen for Daniel Fasting? In this post I share with you my recommended meal prep equipment list and a complete guide to stocking your kitchen.

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Here’s my video where I share the 10 kitchen tools I use for meal prep each week:

What is Daniel Fasting?

Daniel Fasting is a term used to describe follow Daniel’s diet in the Old Testament of the Bible.

It is a simple, whole food plant based diet.

• Quick start guide to Daniel Fasting
• Ultimate Guide to Daniel and Fasting Biblically in 2024
• 7 Day Daniel Fast Meal Plan (free printable PDF)

Meal prep equipment for Daniel Fasting

I’ve created a handy kitchen tool shopping list in this post. This shopping list has everything I recommend for a well stocked meal prep kitchen.

The high quality equipment I use and recommend for preparing Daniel Fast meals includes:

1. Vitamix blender
2. Kitchenaid food processor
3. Power XL air fryer
4. Wusthof knives
5. GreenLife slow cooker
6. Elite Gourmet rice cooker
7. All-Clad stainless steel cookware
8. Pyrex meal prep containers
9. Bentgo meal prep containers
10. Ball glass jars

Use this meal prep equipment shopping list as a guide for what to purchase for your own kitchen. I’ve included affiliate links to purchase these items on Amazon for your convenience.

Tips for purchasing meal prep equipment

Here’s my four tips for choosing equipment:

1. Less is best
2. Quality is best
3. Choose stainless steel cookware if possible
4. Shop when items are on sale for the best deal

Meal prep equipment I recommend for Daniel Fasting

Below is a list of kitchen equipment brands I trust and use.

Vitamix

Vitamix makes my favorite high powered blender. I have two, one of which I’ve had for over 20 years and it still works great.

Having a high powered blender makes it easy to make smoothies, creamy Brazil milk, sauces and soups. Sometimes a lower powered blender will not be able to make your dishes blended into a creamy consistency. Having the benefit of a high powered blender can help you really improve your cooking.

I use my Vitamix to meal prep for the 7 Day Daniel Fast Meal Plan:

• Brazil Nut Milk
• Daniel Fast Smoothie
• Vegan Queso Sauce

A Vitamix is an NSF Certified blender which means it is a blender that is approved for use in commercial kitchens. I trust the brand highly because of this designation. There aren’t many household small appliances that are NSF Certified.

• Shop Vitamix on Amazon.

Here’s a YouTube video showing how I use my Vitamix blender to meal prep smoothies for the fast:

Kitchenaid Food Processor

A food processor is great for mixing and shredding vegetables, making purees and even kneading bread dough.

I use a Kitchenaid food processor to make:

• Hummus
• White bean hummus recipe
• Knead the dough for Unleavened Bread

The Kitchenaid brand is built well and very easy to clean. The one I use currently I’ve owned for about 12 years and still works great.

• Shop Kitchenaid food processors on Amazon.

Here’s a YouTube video showing how I use my food processor to knead bread dough:

Air Fryer for Daniel Fasting

I can’t stress enough how great an air fryer for Daniel Fasting is!

An air fryer is basically like a little oven. This small kitchen appliance sits on my counter top and I use it to:

• Reheat prepared Daniel Fast meals in glass Pyrex containers
• Roast potatoes and vegetables for dinner
• Bake and reheat Unleavened Bread

An air fryer can be more useful than a big oven because:

1. There’s basically no preheating required
2. Roasting potatoes takes about 18 minutes, instead of 55 minutes in a big oven
3. Cooking vegetables 8 minutes, instead of 45 minutes in a big oven
4. Baking Unleavened Bread takes about 5 minutes instead of about 11 minutes in a big oven
5. Reheating prepared meals in a glass container takes about 12 minutes, instead of 25 minutes in a big oven

Saving time in meal prep is important for sticking to the Daniel Fast. Sometimes you’re hungry and don’t have anything meal prepped. Simply put some potatoes and vegetables into the air fryer and you’ve got a hot meal in about 20 minutes, from scratch.

• Shop PowerXL Air Fryers for Daniel Fasting on Amazon.

GreenLife

This inexpensive slow cooker is something I recommend adding to your kitchen tools because it allows you to work on other projects while the cooker does the cooking. I like the GreenLife brand because they use non-toxic materials and the cooker is easy to use.

• Shop GreenLife slow cookers on Amazon.

 

Elite Gourmet

A rice cooker is a must have if you plan to enjoy rice as a staple in your diet. This small kitchen appliance lets you set it, and forget it when it comes to cooking rice. I like to purchase the stainless steel rice cookers made by Elite Gourmet.

• Shop Elite Gourmet rice cookers on Amazon.

 

 

Wusthof

Having a good quality knife is important for safety as well as efficiency. I recommend investing in a good quality knife or set of knives.

The brand I recommend is called Wusthof and they are located in Germany. When I was in culinary school, these were the standard issue knives we received in our knife kits.

A benefit to purchasing a higher quality knife is that it is usually just one piece of steel. This is as opposed to an inexpensive knife which is often two separate pieces stuck together.

• Shop Wusthof on Amazon.

Here’s a video showing how I use the serrated Wusthof knife to cut citrus fruit:

 

Ball jars

I use Ball jars to store meal prepped food for the 7 Day Daniel Fast Meal Prep, such as:

• Green Apple Smoothie
• Brazil Nut Milk
• Vegan Queso Sauce

These are easy to clean and can be reused many times.

• Shop for Ball glass jars on Amazon.

 

 

 

Pyrex

Pyrex makes the best quality glass kitchen mixing bowls and meal prep containers. I have many Pyrex dishes and containers which are great because they can go from the cold fridge directly into the hot oven or air fryer with no issues. Pyrex makes reheating prepared meals very easy.

• Shop for Pyrex meal prep containers on Amazon.

 

 

 

Bentgo meal prep containers

I stock my kitchen with glass Pyrex containers with lids to store and reheat prepared foods and use Bentgo plastic portioned meal prep containers for cold meal prep like Hummus and Veggies.

These are great because they have dividers to keep the food from touching and they are inexpensive so I can take them to-go without worrying about keeping track of them.

• Shop Bentgo meal prep containers on Amazon >

 

Here’s Part 4 of a video series sharing how I package an entire week of meals into Bentgo containers:

Stainless steel cookware

I purchased good quality stainless steel saute pans and use these for cooking dishes like Tofu Scramble.

• Shop All-Clad brand on Amazon >

Here’s a video showing how I use my All-Clad skillet to make my Breakfast Scramble in the morning.

 

Further reading:

• Ultimate Guide to Daniel and Fasting Biblically in 2024
• 7 Day Daniel Fast Meal Plan (free printable PDF)
• Read the book of Daniel at biblegateway.com