Here is a little bit of a bizarre query — do you like to repeat recipes, combine in new recipes, do imprecise “DIY” type of recipes? How do you retain issues “contemporary” should you’re utilizing the identical elements that everybody agrees are wholesome like beans, yogurt, milk, greens?
There are not any proper solutions right here, clearly!
I used to have lots of repeat recipes, however I am… one way or the other tremendous drained of all of them. Even fundamental, low effort meals like tacos now make me type of roll my eyes. I strive mixing in new recipes however these are excessive effort and never all the time nice.
At one level I had tried to have a tough theme that repeated for recipes — hen or fish on Monday, soup on Tuesday, and so on — and large lists of issues which may match every theme.
I additionally was keen on a “roll for initiative” planner (hyperlink to the freebie from Imperfect Inspiration) that I had modified so as an alternative of eating places, I listed recipes to make as an alternative. Previous recipes, new recipes, straightforward recipes. That one labored the most effective and I ought to in all probability return to it; it was the best option to plan dinner on the final minute. A number of occasions dinner is chosen by my son who makes use of a web-based selection wheel like this one. I ought to in all probability get again to the Imperfect Inspiration one as an alternative.
I’ve additionally heard about what I am going to name “imprecise” recipes — the Mark Bittman e book, VB6, is nice for this as a result of the recipes actually listing elements like “a grain, a bean, a inexperienced vegetable” in very tough phrases. Then you possibly can adapt primarily based on style, availability, and so on. (The speculation within the e book is that it is not arduous to be “vegan earlier than 6PM,” which is nice for quite a lot of well being, finances, and moral causes.)
On the flip aspect, my dad and mom have a set menu 5 days of the week, repeatedly consuming the identical easy recipes and solely not often attempting new recipes.
So, the query for at the moment — how do you prepare dinner? Do you wish to repeat the identical recipes time and again, or strive new ones? (Do you recipes you repeat so typically you will have them memorized?) Do you like to do meal subscription companies to “select” your meals for you? Do you like to wing it and do “woman dinner” (or freezer dinner, or cereal dinner)?
(That is truly not that completely different a query from an outdated one we had on holidays, the place we mentioned the professionals and cons of repeating holidays versus attempting new issues.)
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