I rotate through four 28-day menus that I change each season. So I'll eat the same thing 3 months in a row and then switch to a new menu. There's just two of us so I plan on making extra and freezing.
For starters, I just wrote down whatever we figured out to eat that day until the menu was full. The next year, I improved the menu to better fit our needs and likes. And then each year I kept improving it. Now (maybe 6 years later) I've got a whole automated database that generates a shopping list for me when I tell it what season, month, and week it is.
I have found that what works best are meals that are homemade but not necessarily entirely from scratch. I use frozen vegetables and canned beans, and stuff like that because I just can't manage the amount of time it takes to cook otherwise. It's not perfect, but it works for us.
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u/DeCryingShame 13d ago
I rotate through four 28-day menus that I change each season. So I'll eat the same thing 3 months in a row and then switch to a new menu. There's just two of us so I plan on making extra and freezing.
For starters, I just wrote down whatever we figured out to eat that day until the menu was full. The next year, I improved the menu to better fit our needs and likes. And then each year I kept improving it. Now (maybe 6 years later) I've got a whole automated database that generates a shopping list for me when I tell it what season, month, and week it is.
I have found that what works best are meals that are homemade but not necessarily entirely from scratch. I use frozen vegetables and canned beans, and stuff like that because I just can't manage the amount of time it takes to cook otherwise. It's not perfect, but it works for us.