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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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[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Try cooking Indian and East Asian foods. Very affordable and healthy. Many don’t even require meat. If you get rice get easy Asian rice not south Asian, ie long grain. Personal opinion, it tastes much better.

Super easy meal is Japanese curry and rice. Get the premade curry packs that you put into your vegetable and water mix.

Fried rice is a good easy one.

Fun new snack I’ve done recently is seasoned then baked chickpeas.

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

I think the best thing is just to eat similar meals each week but can switch things up.

[–] 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

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?