Bane of my existence. Can we get meals on wheels for millennials?
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When you cook a meal you like, record the recipe. If you do this enough, you'll have your own cookbook of favorite meals before long. Once you have 2-3 weeks worth, print it and put it in a binder. When I plan meals, I grab my binder, make an ingredients list of what I need for the week, then cook the meals I want.
It will take a bit to get going, but you'll have a much easier time picking instead of guessing :)
My wife and I find it easier to plan a menu every week. Makes shopping easier and dinner less of a guessing game. Also, when in doubt, buns and a salad kit. Never fails. The buns can be anything. Burgers? Cool! Regular or mushroom Swiss? How about chicken patties/chicken burgers? Meatball Marinara sandwiches? Whatever you want, brother.
I'm honestly surprised that more people don't come up with a weekday menu over the weekend. It can be simple, like you mentioned buns plus whatever. Simple meat, grain, veg is easy (frozen fish or fried tofu, rice/quinoa, and some broccoli or Brussels).
When all else fails... Breakfast tacos for dinner will do. Prefer egg and sausage, but I'll settle for egg and avocado with some hot sauce.
I guess Im at a loss on how else to do it? Like I only go grocery shopping ~once a week so i have to plan everything.
I think the folks that don't plan meals just kind of buy ingredients sporadically and hope for the best. Sometimes it works. Sometimes there's just a bunch of mismatched items. Food tends to get wasted as stuff goes bad before it's eaten.
Source: my partner was like this before we moved in together
Keep a notepad in the kitchen, make it your recipe book. Fill it with things you cooked once and would cook again. If you can't dde ide what to make, flip through it and pick one.
Before cookbooks were 87% of all Christmas presents, they were just kitchen cookbooks that nonna handwrote for this purpose.
I try, I really try... but my cooking is sporadic since we both work and have 2 kids and I'm the only one who knows how to cook. The other problem is my wife really doesn't seem to care for almost everything I make, plus the kids are even pickier eaters. I have no desire to cook anything since it's super depressing spending a lot of time on something nobody enjoys having. The funniest part is I could care less what I eat yet I always get the question everyday of "so what's for dinner?". Sorry for the rant. I'm just feeling underappreciated these days.
Off the top of my head.
Next weekend give them the option of planning the meals for the week.
Unless they pick something ridiculous like Beef Wellington or Peiking Duck everyone will be happy.
That's rough buddy, you should tell her
Dunno man, bottling everything up inside is working wonders for me right now. I think. Hard to tell actually. Am I on a ruin everything speedrun?
Doesn't sound that way!
Yeah ive been there myself. Ended up cooking large amount of food so I had remains for several days. Its good to make soups, you get a lot of food and you can add sandwiches on the side also. Lasta for many days.
When we still had kids at home I had a 2-week meal plan. Just rotated thru it every 2 weeks. So much easier. After they grew up and moved out I got into more 'gourmet' cooking but now that we are retired I'm seriously thinking of going back to the 2-week meal plan. We just need to eat simpler & less.
If you don't have a good sized freezer, get one. It takes as long to prepare 6 portions as it does one. Lasagna, chili, soups, whatever. Now you have the option of cooking when you get home or microwaving something you know you'll like.
Yeah and you don't have to eat them all in a row. Make 6 portions today, and have one a week. Tomorrow, 8 portions of something else.
Also,meal prep doesn't nessecarily mean making completed meals. If you have to chop one carrot for this meal,peel and chop 5 of them, freeze some,save some for salads, and save some for dipping or whatever.
Similar. If you have half a carrot left, put it in a quart sized container and freeze it. Add excess veggies until the container is full, and then use that to make a soup/stew.
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