This is a little bit of a bizarre query — do you favor to repeat recipes, combine in new recipes, do obscure “DIY” sort of recipes? How do you retain issues “contemporary” in the event you’re utilizing the identical substances that everybody agrees are wholesome like beans, yogurt, milk, greens?
There are not any proper solutions right here, clearly!
I used to have a whole lot of repeat recipes, however I am… one way or the other tremendous drained of all of them. Even primary, low effort meals like tacos now make me sort of roll my eyes. I strive mixing in new recipes however these are excessive effort and never at all times nice.
At one level I had tried to have a tough theme that repeated for recipes — rooster or fish on Monday, soup on Tuesday, and so forth — and large lists of issues that 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 very best and I ought to in all probability return to it. A whole lot 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 that one.
I’ve additionally heard about what I am going to name “obscure” recipes — the Mark Bittman e book, VB6, is nice for this as a result of the recipes actually checklist substances like “a grain, a bean, a inexperienced vegetable” in very tough phrases. Then you may adapt based mostly on style, availability, and so forth. (The speculation within the e book is that it is not exhausting 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 right this moment — how do you cook dinner? Do you wish to repeat the identical recipes time and again, or strive new ones? (Do you recipes you repeat so typically you could have them memorized?) Do you favor to do meal subscription companies to “select” your meals for you? Do you favor to wing it and do “lady dinner” (or freezer dinner, or cereal dinner)?
(That is really not that totally different a query from an outdated one we had on holidays, the place we mentioned the professionals and cons of repeating holidays versus attempting new issues.)
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