As previously mentioned, I have never been one for serious advanced meal planning. I much prefer to buy a bunch of things and then to work out how to use them. It's generally tended to work well enough, given that I'm not a very fussy eater, and we rarely waste anything.
HOWEVER, for the first time ever in the 10+ years we've been living together, this week (and every alternate week hereafter), the chap and I are both working full-time jobs not at home. His is academe, so it's way over yer 35 hour week, and mine comes with a ridiculous commute. So our past habit of whoever has been in doing the cooking suddenly won't work.
I have, therefore, written a PLAN and stuck it to the kitchen wall, along with a note of which week of the uni term we're in, so that we'll know when it's Week 5 and that the feeling-like-we've-been-hit-with-a-cudgel feeling is totally normal.
I've been pre- and part-cooking things for the freezer, and some nights are deliberately, err, un-gourmet.
Viz...
To be fair, that is a fancy tub of fancy sauerkraut (a substitution for a perfectly ordinary jar) and a ramekin of leftover rhubarb sauce made to have with some mackerel at the weekend.
But still, it's essentially nuggets (Quorn ones, they're good) and chips. Tough life.
Goodness, full time not at home meal planning. How... intense. I hope you both cope, even with week 5.
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