How does /ck/ into meal planning? Do you eat the same thing

>>9048974
I have a list of meals that I choose from. It's usually 3-4 meals per week, I eat some of them twice, sometimes three times a week.

I always buy the produce the day before I plan to cook and there's not much in my pantry apart from staples like rice, pasta, flour etc. Sometimes I plan the meals according to discounts at the grocery store.

I plan meals before shopping.

The plan is from a list of usual shit I cook or if I'm feeling adventurous, look up some shit from the net.

>>9048974
I do a CSA during the summer and fall. So I get a box of what's in season every week, and it's like a puzzle to turn it into the week's worth of meals. When it ends I have to remember how to shop again.

>>9048974
I make an excel sheet with what I plan to make for the week and the ingredients and their amounts for each recipe. Then I cross-reference the ingredients with what I already have in my house and form a grocery list of what I need.

>>9048974
I shop once a week. I pick my meals for 5 days based on whatever I feel like & the season (nobody wants to have the oven going for hours in the middle of the hot summer, for example). For the other 2 days I pick whatever looks especially good/fresh at the market.

>>9048974
I cook whatever I'm hungry for. I don't like to plan meals because I might not actually be into the dish anymore once its day has arrived.

>>9050516
This. Often, a book I'm reading, movie I watched or something I saw on the internet will make me hungry for a specific dish or style of food and since I keep a well stocked pantry and have an extra freezer I usually have what I need to cook what I feel like. But I'm the kind of guy that goes on long road trips with no plans or reservations. I value my freedom and the ability to improvise, not being a slave to a formal syllabus that in one instant of time I thought would please me.

>>9050563

I like to do the same, but I'm also a perfectionist so I'm not willing to settle for "close enough is good enough". Whenever I come across something like that I spend a lot of effort to seek out the best possible ingredients, not just whatever I happen to have. (And I do have a very well stocked pantry).