It's a free app. You can tell it what foods you don't eat, and tell it how many meals you want to cook this week. It'll give you that many recipes. You scroll through the recipes like tinder, and swipe right to keep, swipe left to change. Once you set your meals, it imports the ingredients into a grocery list. Then you can go to the list, and mark off that you already have noodles or tomatoes or whatever you already own that's on the list, or other things you need that aren't related to those recipes. Then you shop off that list.
The recipes walk you through the steps easily, then you can mark whether you likes it and want to make it again or not.
Later, you can just choose that item out of your favorites to make again. It's fucking amazing.
It's a free app. You can tell it what foods you don't eat, and tell it how many meals you want to cook this week. It'll give you that many recipes. You scroll through the recipes like tinder, and swipe right to keep, swipe left to change. Once you set your meals, it imports the ingredients into a grocery list. Then you can go to the list, and mark off that you already have noodles or tomatoes or whatever you already own that's on the list, or other things you need that aren't related to those recipes. Then you shop off that list.
The recipes walk you through the steps easily, then you can mark whether you likes it and want to make it again or not.
Later, you can just choose that item out of your favorites to make again. It's fucking amazing.
Ok I'm going to try this...
And then ask for more details of your tinder experiences...
When I am good at meal planning, I sit down for half an hour or so to plan meals and make a shopping list. I usually plan for 2-3 things I can make without a recipe and only 1-2 new recipes to try. That way, I only need to reference one or two sources and most of it comes out of my head.
I use pinterest for storing recipes, but I also have a word file for recipes that aren't available online. I collect cookbooks, so sometimes I grab one or two and browse through them for ideas when I'm in a rut. I buy most of them at used bookstores or yard sales so many are vintage and it's amazing the cool ideas you can find in them that you'd never find online.
ETA: you can store the recipes you find on your laptop on pinterest and then put the app on your phone so you only need your phone to access them for meal planning.
Vintage with yummy recipes such as crisco salad and ham & bananas hollandaise?
I have a whole stack of cookbooks that I have not even looked at in a couple of years, so in the last couple of weeks I've started looking through them and made a couple recipes. It's so much easier to follow a recipe from a printed piece of paper than on my phone.
Lol. You may laugh, but I have a vintage jello cookbook that I bought online when I was a little drink. I made a jello mold from it that was delicious and beautiful. The jello part was not a package of jello, but a sweet white wine, sugar, raspberry vinegar, maybe some water and gelatin. It contained apples, pecans and romaine lettuce. I loved it.
It's a free app. You can tell it what foods you don't eat, and tell it how many meals you want to cook this week. It'll give you that many recipes. You scroll through the recipes like tinder, and swipe right to keep, swipe left to change. Once you set your meals, it imports the ingredients into a grocery list. Then you can go to the list, and mark off that you already have noodles or tomatoes or whatever you already own that's on the list, or other things you need that aren't related to those recipes. Then you shop off that list.
The recipes walk you through the steps easily, then you can mark whether you likes it and want to make it again or not.
Later, you can just choose that item out of your favorites to make again. It's fucking amazing.
OMG. Food Tinder??? Where have you been all my life?
I like cooking extra then freezing certain meals for when we hit the "I don't want to cook anything" slump. I also have a handful of meals that take minimal time and energy to prepare (typically using pre prepped frozen ingredients). It's not really ideal and doesn't taste as good as using fresh ingredients, but it's better than getting takeout.
I've been much better lately at putting a portion of stuff from larger batches into the freezer. It's been a game changer. I throw it in a quart freezer bag and freeze it flat so it thaws quickly on the counter or in warm water when I'm ready to use it. Even if it's something that doesn't make a whole meal, sometimes it's the jumpstart you need to make cooking easier. Like I saved homemade refried black beans and it was so nice to pull them out the next time we did Mexican food because it was one less step.
So Tuesday (HOORAY TODAY) seems to be tough for me. I'm thinking of trying taco Tuesday or sandwich Tuesday. Make sure I have pre-cooked protein and other filling prepared, so Tuesday after work I can just boil a pot of rice or whatever and reheat/assemble for dinner.
I wish I had had this brilliant idea yesterday instead of while sitting on my phone at lunch thinking about how I have no dinner planned.
So Tuesday (HOORAY TODAY) seems to be tough for me. I'm thinking of trying taco Tuesday or sandwich Tuesday. Make sure I have pre-cooked protein and other filling prepared, so Tuesday after work I can just boil a pot of rice or whatever and reheat/assemble for dinner.
I wish I had had this brilliant idea yesterday instead of while sitting on my phone at lunch thinking about how I have no dinner planned.
welcome to my world.
every day...."maybe NJCD can think of, shop, and make dinner for me"
So Tuesday (HOORAY TODAY) seems to be tough for me. I'm thinking of trying taco Tuesday or sandwich Tuesday. Make sure I have pre-cooked protein and other filling prepared, so Tuesday after work I can just boil a pot of rice or whatever and reheat/assemble for dinner.
I wish I had had this brilliant idea yesterday instead of while sitting on my phone at lunch thinking about how I have no dinner planned.
Yeah. Friday is my longest day at work and I've gotten into the habit of making pizza dough earlier in the week so we can have pizza on Friday nights. Toppings are whatever looks good in the fridge or I might pick up some pepperoni. Quick and delicious.
We've apparently really been relying on hello fresh to plan our meals for us. 3 hello fresh meals + pizza night at my mom's means that we just pick one meal for the week to shop for. We have 3 weeks of no hello fresh, so we're floundering over here. I bought a big tray of meat and a couple of bags of veggies for dinners for this week.
I think we'll go back to grad school type planning for the next two weeks. We ate tons of salads and wraps with pre-cooked fajita meat because it was cheap, easy, and fit in my diet.
We've apparently really been relying on hello fresh to plan our meals for us. 3 hello fresh meals + pizza night at my mom's means that we just pick one meal for the week to shop for. We have 3 weeks of no hello fresh, so we're floundering over here. I bought a big tray of meat and a couple of bags of veggies for dinners for this week.
I think we'll go back to grad school type planning for the next two weeks. We ate tons of salads and wraps with pre-cooked fajita meat because it was cheap, easy, and fit in my diet.
This is us, except we use Blue Apron. During the work week, like Stringy we have about two hours between getting home from work and getting the kids in bed. Throw in baths/showers and homework for the big kid, and there's not a lot of time to make dinner.
What we really need is a better rotation of recipes to try that the kids might eat. Right now M will eat anything we are eating, E basically only eats Amy's frozen bean rice and cheddar burritos, F only eats grilled cheese sandwiches, and T only eats pasta with red sauce, and the occasional salmon. And we always do pizza on Sundays.
I love my instant pot. It cuts down the stress of what to make for dinner. The salsa verde chicken on balancedbites.com is delicious & I can make it with frozen chicken in about an hour. I'm not organized enough to do actual crockpot recipes, but you can just adapt them to the Instant Pot. It also makes hard boiled eggs in 5min, so I can always have a supply in the fridge for a quick protein snack.
I love my instant pot. It cuts down the stress of what to make for dinner. The salsa verde chicken on balancedbites.com is delicious & I can make it with frozen chicken in about an hour. I'm not organized enough to do actual crockpot recipes, but you can just adapt them to the Instant Pot. It also makes hard boiled eggs in 5min, so I can always have a supply in the fridge for a quick protein snack.
Post by linewifekat on Apr 25, 2017 20:55:05 GMT -5
ovenrack have you thought about making a cold fermented bread/pizza dough. It's cheaper than making sprouted bread but lowers the carbs. Let me fine the link to the recipe. There's a waffle recipe too.
So my problem comes with time and meal planning and shopping. At work I click links and see recipes people post - but at home when my laptop is somewhere in a bag and its time to shop I don't go dig it out and look them up and write it down.
So I need to either print them out or screen shot things on my phone or something like that. And then get it to a shopping list so I have things...and THEN actually make it.
Which feels like too many barriers.
I'm a really simple healthy food eater. I don't do fancy recipes and I'm fine with eating the exact same thing every day. So for me, planning is what I can deal with for a while
Breakfast: egg white omelette with spinach, salsa and mozzarella cheese
Lunch: veggie burger patty (boca brand) 1 cup of cooked broccoli and milk (or yogurt)
Dinner: veggie patty or tuna fish, broccoli again and milk
I am so boring, but keeping it simple works for me. I can also eat egg whites forever because I know it's filling and a perfect protein with zero fat.
My snacks in between are either a small protein shake, cheese stick, or like 28 almonds.
Mind you, this is all coming from the person that cried at how bad her pictures looked last night. So maybe I should shut it
So last night r took some pictures of me...and after looking at them, I legitimately cried. I was shocked at how much I hated the way I looked.
So I definitely need to eat better and get back to working out. This morning I had a cup of cottage cheese with a banana smashed in it. And coffee
I'm right there with you. When I saw pictures from the wedding this weekend, I was not happy. I signed up for weight watchers again and I'm going to add exercise at some point in my incredibly busy day.
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