Household sheet: people, the week and kitchen rules
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Household sheet: people, the week and kitchen rules

Who eats from this kitchen and which meals they eat at home, the coming week day by day with the cooking time each day allows, and the household's own rules for allergies, children and a shared kitchen. Seeded from your setup; everything you type stays in this browser.

For a first pass, people and the coming week are essential: The people at your table builds them, and the weekly plan reads the week's time column. The kitchen rules are essential only for a household with a food allergy, children or a shared kitchen; anyone else can skip them and lose nothing the other chapters need.

People

One row per person who eats from this kitchen most days (The people at your table). Write each allergy, medical diet or food rule exactly as the person who set it gave it.

The coming week

One row per day (Your starting week and The people at your table). Time available is what the day allows for cooking dinner, not what a recipe asks for.

Kitchen rules

Tick each rule your household has agreed to keep, and note who keeps it. The rules that apply to your setup were marked when the sheet was seeded.

How to use these sheets

  • One person, one row. Write the meals each person eats at home ("dinners on weekdays", "all meals") and each allergy, medical diet or food rule as the person who set it gave it, with who set it.
  • The week is this week. Rewrite it each planning day. Time available is what the day allows for dinner, from no cooking to an hour or more; it is not what a recipe asks for (The people at your table).
  • Rules are agreements. Tick a rule when the household has agreed to keep it, and write who keeps it. The notes column says why it applies.
Fictional example

The Grant household (fictional) fills the people sheet with four rows: Leo's peanut allergy is written as his allergist gave it, set by "Allergist"; Ava's note says she eats pasta, chicken, apples and carrots readily. Their week marks Tuesday as 15 minutes because of soccer, and Friday as pizza night. Their rules sheet has the children and food allergy groups ticked.

Limits

The household sheet records what each person and their doctor, allergist or dietitian has said. It does not diagnose an allergy, decide whether a "may contain" product is acceptable, or plan a medical diet; those belong to the person's own clinicians (The people at your table). Keep the emergency plan from the doctor where everyone can find it.