This is awesome. I like the lists. What recipes are your mainstays, and where can I find them
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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
I use the app Paprika -- it works on every platform. Lets me meal plan and make a grocery list for each recipe. Been clipping recipes in it for 10+ years. https://www.paprikaapp.com/
I love how paprika will extract the ingredients and cooking instructions from a recipe site so I don't have to hunt through a page that's a mile long!
I use an online service called CopyMeThat (not linking because I'm not shilling, you can look it up yourself). It lets me save online recipes and make a meal plan with them (and also a shopping list, but I generally do that by hand because I know what I have in stock already). I have more than 400 recipes saved and we've tried more than 300 of them, from cuisines all over the world.
I cook on summer camp, our meal plan is same as last year but changed for trips outside off camp site.
It is only a reference, on site we cook from what we can get hands on or what didn't lasts long.
For how many people do you cook for and what meals do you usually prepare in camp?
For about 50 people 3 meals per day.
There isn't oven, and we mostly cook on wood stove in 50l pots. So we are little bit limited in what we can cook. It is usually pasta, potatoes, rice, bulgur, couscous and sauces.
But favourite meal is some India with flatbread (translated don't know if it makes sense). You wouldn't believe how quickly it disappears.
My wife and I hate having our entire weeks meals planned out. We love to be a little spontaneous so we have generally do less meal prep. We typically cook daily and gives us a change to make what we feel like each day.
We have a few standards that we always have ingredients for which we generally make. For these we just make them whenever we feel like it. We have a few staples that we can make using multiple different sets of vegetables like stir fry and pasta that we whip up with whatever we have around. For other recipes we just go to the store to get things just for that meal. We really try to avoid having too much in our fridge since it goes bad quickly with just two of us. Its more about general techniques or vague recipes.
I wrote my own app that I use to enter all my recipes. In the app, I then select which meals to prepare for any given day of the week, along with number of servings I need to prepare for my wife, kids and myself. The app lets me create a shopping list from the selected meals with the correct amounts that I need to buy. I then take this shopping list (copied to the Notes App) to the grocery store and buy everything I need. The app even lets me store preparation instructions, so I use it again while cooking. If you want to try it out yourself: it's available on the Google Play Store: Shop&Cook
That's really cool! I unfortunately have iOS devices but I've been trying to figure out automation via Notion instead