I’m looking to have tasty and balanced food while maintaining a reasonable budget and being more organised.
I know how to cook. I already have tasty yet not complicated meals I’m use to make but I never needed to be organised about it before.
So I decided to start to write menu in advance, do a some meal prepping probably a bit of batch cooking.
I found resources online to start following a plan but maybe you have advices for the beginner that I am.
Thank you!
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I keep an excel spreadsheet of recipes. Every sheet focuses on a single ingredient, either produce or protien. I see what’s on sale each week and look for recipes that utilize those ingredients.
Good idea. I think I will start some sort of journaling of my menu to help the planning. This should be included.
It can help to have designated meal types for each day. E.g. taco Tuesdays, pasta Wednesdays, etc.
Doesn’t have to be the same meal each week but narrows down the choices making decisions and planning easier.
I see. I was thinking, maybe I could plan two weeks of meals and rotate them. Then, I would need to change this plan 4 times a year to keep with seasonal ingredients. But I felt overwhelm by the idea of finding so many recipe. But actually, I could do whatever the season :
- Monday rice
- Tuesday tradional meal
- Wesnesday pasta
- Thursday exotic cuisine
- Friday potatoes
It would be easy to narrow traditional recipe to seasonal ingredients now. Wow… It seems so easy now.
Sorted food does a free trial. They have a bunch of meal packs. 3 dishes scaled to however many people you’re cooking for that share ingredients. The app even has a grocery list. You could go through, grab the recipes and grocery lists that look good, then cancel. I believe one of their goals is to save you enough money that it’s worth paying them.
I’m a food nerd, and use it weekly. Mostly for the grocery list. Pick a pack that sounds good, grab the grocery list, and know that I have 3 meals worth of food. The recipes I’ve tried have been solid, but mostly I just look at the ingredients that are sitting there and make something. It forces me into verity, instead of just grabbing the same shit at the store every time.
There is a lot of things I excluse from my diet so I’m never very attracted by this type of offer. Did you have a good experience related to allergies, veganism or alike? What would be the difference btw that and buying already cookies meal from restaurant I know and trust? Appart from the pleasure of cooking obviously ʘ‿ʘ
They allow up to 5 allergies/dislikes. The difference is cost. By putting together 3 meals with one set of ingredients, it really helps cut the cost of food down.
