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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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[–] BruceLee@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Always have an easy breakfast and sandwich supplies. I just tomato or cucumber sandwiches.

This is something I really need to be careful about. Now that I don't cook for a very spontanious and flexible day, I need to have quality snack available. Or esle, I'll end up having good lunch and dinner but a bunch of unhealthy food all day long.

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well those examples do include a decent amount of mayo… but you could go worse with a nice bread and vegetables.

Have you found anything that works since you made the post?

[–] BruceLee@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago

Yes. I've plan of doing sandwiches using houmous and lentils spreads as the sauce. I also want to do muffins, I have a recipe that's easy for both sweet and savory, that can be packed with any dices or grated fruits and vegetables, and I could make bran muffins as well. For breakfast, I think I will just go for good quality bread, butter and jam. French breakfast is a sweet lunch to north-america standards.

And fresh fruit in season.