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Starting at planning menus - Any advice? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 2 weeks ago by BruceLee@sopuli.xyz to c/frugal@lemmy.world

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I'm looking to have tasty and balanced food while maintaining a reasonable budget and being more organised.
I know how to cook. I already have tasty yet not complicated meals I'm use to make but I never needed to be organised about it before.

So I decided to start to write menu in advance, do a some meal prepping probably a bit of batch cooking.
I found resources online to start following a plan but maybe you have advices for the beginner that I am.

Thank you!

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[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I buy a couple types of meat, usually chicken and ground beef, 2-3 starches, generally rice, pasta, and potatoes, plus salad ingredients and 2-3 locally-farmed fresh veggies. Then I rotate which ingredients I use each day, so we don't eat the same things two days in a row. I don't plan ahead how I'll cook ingredients or what seasonings I'll use, I just do what I feel like at the time.

[–] BruceLee@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

I guess I should look which the meals I like have ingredients in common to make rotation.