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5 weeks of meals + grocery lists on repeat. Swap a few seasonally. It has changed my life and we’ve found 5 weeks is the right amount to not get sick of anything. I place curbside grocery pickup orders in ~5 minutes a week with this system.
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Meal planning in my house is make a lot of food that I'm in the mood for. Why make it such a burden for yourself? The only time I really plan it out is when I'm training for a competition and the water cut before weigh-in.
We don’t cook every night. Before one of us go grocery shopping, we decide on three or four meals we want during the week. We generally make enough for leftovers to get us through other nights. Otherwise, we always make sure to have other things on hand like chicken salad, hard boiled eggs, etc.
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We do a shit ton of meal prep on weekends. I don’t plan a different meal for every day. Just cook about 5 lbs of meat (chicken, beef, salmon), 4 cups of rice, sheet pan of sweet potatoes, sheet pan of regular potatoes, sheet pan of roasted veggies, fresh salad, fresh fruit, overnight oats, frittata, 24 muffins. Sometimes I’ll make a big pot of soup. Whatever we can’t eat I freeze. Freezer always has chili, chicken soup, curry, meatballs, nuggets. Meal prep usually lasts us until Thu, and Fri we order in. Weekends I cook more labor intensive and fun meals. We do have a running grocery list for Costco and Whole Foods. I started buying and prepping whatever looked good or was on sale at the store during COVID and never looked back. Our food is really simple and easy during the week because that’s all I can manage. Kids are very used to the protein, carb, veg routine thankfully and they don’t complain.
Precooking, seasoning, and freezing the meat was the key for me. Instead of having to thaw and deal with handling raw meat, I cook a lot at once, portion it out into one pound freezer bags, and throw that in the freezer.
We do a combo of some of the other comments. We have a general guide of what we make every week: rice dish, pasta dish, tacos, carb-less, and crock pot. What each of those looks like will vary from week to week but having the framework helps planning easier. We use NYT cooking for recipes and apps like Recime make planning and recipe retention easier. We have a meat subscription (butcherbox) which takes the time out of shopping for meat and use the monthly delivery to guide what we cook within our framework. We do a weekly grocery delivery or pickup for the remaining ingredients, and usually aim for already-cut ingredients. We don’t meal prep or enjoy eating the same things on repeat, so it still takes time but the little shortcuts add up. Eat out/order on weekends. If I do meal prep, it’s limited to the kiddo’s meals.