Recently, I wanted a white board to have a physical list of homemade healthy food available at home. We didn’t have the money for one so we bought some dry-erase markers and taped old paper bags onto the back of the glass of our rarely used china cabinet. I like having a big visible list in the kitchen so my husband and I could refrain from opening the fridge several times a day. I also like planning a day before or on the day of so I can gouge what we’re craving for and which ingredients we have available that day.
Forgive the handwriting but I listed down several foods and recipes that we enjoy and have been repeats in our diet. We also wanted it to be relatively cheap so we process and prep meals at home to save food. All of the meals and food items listed are vegan. So far, we’ve been saving up great and feeling better with relatively healthier eating :D
How do you plan your meals?
image description: A china cabinet with its glass doors used like a white board. Brown paper bags are taped behind the glass to make the text visible.
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This is awesome. I like the lists. What recipes are your mainstays, and where can I find them
My gf and I got a little magnetic whiteboard with each day of the week on it. We split the work up a bit. On Sundays I plan out the week’s meals, and check if we have all the ingredients for them. I’ll write it out on the white board, and put a star next to an entry if we need to get something from the store for it.
We both use the app paprika to manage our grocery list and recipes.
She will do the shopping usually, and then I am the cook throughout the week.
We both used to be way more chill about things and ate a lot of frozen food but changed a lot when covid started
I cook on summer camp, our meal plan is same as last year but changed for trips outside off camp site.
It is only a reference, on site we cook from what we can get hands on or what didn’t lasts long.
I use an online service called CopyMeThat (not linking because I’m not shilling, you can look it up yourself). It lets me save online recipes and make a meal plan with them (and also a shopping list, but I generally do that by hand because I know what I have in stock already). I have more than 400 recipes saved and we’ve tried more than 300 of them, from cuisines all over the world.
I wrote my own app that I use to enter all my recipes. In the app, I then select which meals to prepare for any given day of the week, along with number of servings I need to prepare for my wife, kids and myself. The app lets me create a shopping list from the selected meals with the correct amounts that I need to buy. I then take this shopping list (copied to the Notes App) to the grocery store and buy everything I need. The app even lets me store preparation instructions, so I use it again while cooking. If you want to try it out yourself: it’s available on the Google Play Store: Shop&Cook
That’s really cool! I unfortunately have iOS devices but I’ve been trying to figure out automation via Notion instead
