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!!

  • 🐝bownage [they/he]@beehaw.org
    4·
    1 year ago

    My fiancé and I both work and we usually get groceries for 1-2 days at a time and cook for the two of us most days of the week. For us there have been a few key elements to being able to cook after work:

    • Find dishes that you like that take max 45 min to cook including prep.
    • Once you each have a handful of go-to’s (let’s say 5-7), you can rotate between these on a regular basis. Of course some will be more suitable for lazy days than others.
    • Be sure to update your short list when you feel it’s getting boring to cook and eat the same things.
    • It really helps to always have tortillas, pasta and rice in the house.

    Hope some of this is helpful!

    • blueskiesoc@beehaw.org
      2·
      1 year ago

      It really helps to always have tortillas, pasta and rice in the house.

      This is something I relate to. It’s a workable system. A good base and throw whatever you have on top.

      I’d add a bread to that list. Something over rice one day seems totally different on toasted sourdough (or whatever flavor of bread you like) and when you have part of a loaf that is going stale, you can put it in the freezer for that.