How are you able to cook while working full time through the week? Do you have some kind of strategy? How do you plan your food? - eviltoast

We want to break out of this cycle of ordering delivery but at the same time, cooking everyday has been a challenge. We also have been trying to develop some sort of routine where we meal prep on the weekends but we live in an apartment with a really small kitchen so cooking and storing food for 5 days doesn’t seem doable. Maybe cook for 3 days and then prepare the ingredients to cook again on Wednesday?

I’d appreciate if you could share your strategies and experience. The goal here is to eat healthy and good food.

Edit: Thank you everyone for all your contributions! I am a little overwhelmed by the number of replies so I if I do not reply to you please do now feel bad!!

  • Suck_on_my_Presence@beehaw.org
    10·
    1 year ago

    I’m far too lazy to meal prep on my weekends. But I will choose 3-4 dinners for the week and write it down like a menu and get the ingredients I need for them. If I know it’s going to be a crazy week, I will cut the vegetables immediately after grocery shopping that way I can just dump them in the pan or bowl or whatever when I’m cooking. Then I have options to choose from several different foods over the week.

    I always make enough to have leftovers so I don’t have to plan for lunches too.

    Best of luck

    • varzaman@lemm.ee
      2·
      1 year ago

      A mix of limited menu during the week, and food prepping are the biggest things.

      If I know the upcoming week will be busy, I’ll batch cook on Sunday and just reheat the rest of the week.

      Otherwise, learning simple recipes I can whip up quick. Practice makes perfect after all, and the more I cook, the faster I get.

      Honestly, this might be a hot take but when it comes to food in the modern western world, people are really privileged lol. Why is the expectation that you eat something different every day for every meal?