Meal list and meal formulas
The meals your household already eats, tagged by kind, effort, leftovers, freezing, main perishable and whether everyone eats them, plus three meal formulas you can recombine. Everything you type stays in this browser.
For a first pass, the meal list is essential: at least ten meals your household already eats, tagged by effort and by whether they make leftovers or freeze well (Your meal list). The meal formulas are optional on a first pass; they help most once the list feels repetitive.
Meal list
One row per meal (Your meal list). Start with the dinners from your baseline week. Suits everyone is your household's answer, not a judgment of the meal.
Meal formulas
Three formulas: a base, a protein, vegetables and a sauce or seasoning, plus the second-night version (Your meal list).
How to use these sheets
- Meals you already eat. Start with the dinners from your baseline week, then add meals the household likes. A new recipe can join the list once it has been cooked.
- Tags are for planning. Effort matches a meal to a day's time; makes leftovers and freezes well mark the meals that feed a second night; main perishable is the ingredient that sets the meal's place in the week.
- Suits everyone is your answer. "With a change" means one shared base with a separate part for one person, our own method (Your meal list).
The starter rows are four of the Grant household's meals (fictional): a chicken and rice bake, pasta with meat sauce, lentil soup and pizza night. The lentil soup is marked "with a change" because whether Ava will eat it is still open; it is served with bread she already eats.
The meal list records what a household eats. It does not rate a meal as healthy or unhealthy, and whether a meal fits a medical diet is settled by the person's dietitian or doctor, never by this list.