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Save Yourself Time and Stress: Plan Tomorrow’s Dinner Tonight
Habit #29 in my 30-day journey
The thing about cooking is it always needs doing. No matter how awesome of a meal I put on the table, tomorrow evening my family will expect another one. This happens every single day. The sun rises, the sun sets, people want to eat.
Pre-pandemic I had the much-appreciated safety valve of going out to eat. Between lockdowns and very limited outdoor seating that must be booked ahead, spur of the moment eating out hasn’t been an option for a long time.
Even take-out options are quite sparse in my neck of the woods and generally have to be booked a day ahead as well. So I’m on the hook, day after day after day.
My spouse had a roommate one summer who was experiencing living on his own outside of college dorms and their all-you-can-eat meals plans for the first time in his life. He had a brilliant plan for feeding himself easily and economically. He had collected a stack of casserole recipes. Each Saturday he would cook a casserole large enough to last him the entire week.
Like most brilliant plans it didn’t survive contact with reality. A few days into the week both the casserole and the guy were looking pretty green. He’d end up tossing the leftovers and grabbing McDonald's.
