Recently, I wanted a white board to have a physical list of homemade healthy food available at home. We didn’t have the money for one so we bought some dry-erase markers and taped old paper bags onto the back of the glass of our rarely used china cabinet. I like having a big visible list in the kitchen so my husband and I could refrain from opening the fridge several times a day. I also like planning a day before or on the day of so I can gouge what we’re craving for and which ingredients we have available that day.
Forgive the handwriting but I listed down several foods and recipes that we enjoy and have been repeats in our diet. We also wanted it to be relatively cheap so we process and prep meals at home to save food. All of the meals and food items listed are vegan. So far, we’ve been saving up great and feeling better with relatively healthier eating :D
How do you plan your meals?
image description: A china cabinet with its glass doors used like a white board. Brown paper bags are taped behind the glass to make the text visible.
My gf and I got a little magnetic whiteboard with each day of the week on it. We split the work up a bit. On Sundays I plan out the week's meals, and check if we have all the ingredients for them. I'll write it out on the white board, and put a star next to an entry if we need to get something from the store for it.
We both use the app paprika to manage our grocery list and recipes.
She will do the shopping usually, and then I am the cook throughout the week.
We both used to be way more chill about things and ate a lot of frozen food but changed a lot when covid started
I checked out the app but I saw it was paid (we don’t even have money for that lol). All of our recipes are written down on paper so that we can put it on a mounted clip and read it quick. I should probably look into digitizing our grocery and recipe lists.
How did things change during covid?
Yeah it was paid. Unfortunately it was a while ago so I can't quite remember how it was set up, but I believe it's only a single $5 purchase, no recurring fees. And we just made one account and have it logged in on each of our devices. So in total I think it was just $5
Covid for us just meant more time at home to try new things mostly. It was also partially spurred on by a doctor's visit for me where I had slightly high cholesterol and was told to cut back on frozen foods. So the combination of the two got us into cooking more and it cleared all that up thankfully