A week of dinners

[shootingstar]

Some of you folks run your meal planning with such military regimentation...amazing. Not sure I could regiment myself, without gettting bored with cooking. I don't mind cooking...simply because it is abit creative to me/my partner... so there must alot of flexbility and nice surprises for meal planning.

Ummmm..we are more fly-by-the-seat of your pants in terms of meal planning and grocery buying. Thankfully. He and I consult a recipe..uh...every 3 months. Everything else we prepare has been a collaborative effort of recipes and cooking techniques from both sides of our families..plus each of us has tried certain recipes, each of us have casually memorized certain recipes initially but later transform/embellish/contort the recipe. It does help solve problems of varied, nutritious meal planning if we can already draw upon Asian and German (quality) recipes that we knew from childhood.

And voila, we make our meals. We do the reverse..we just buy fresh veggies and fruits with usually buying first whatever is in season/is cheap, then add on whatever else we need, usually 1 load of artisan fresh bread, fresh herbs, etc.

Then it's shoved into our fridge and cupboards. Then we do the reverse, we just look in the fridge /cupboard and make up the meal for dinner..

Maybe once or twice a wk. we consult..he says: "I'm making salad. You want salad?" Sometimes I say no or yes. If no, I make my own thing...it could be s stir-fried noodle dish, fishead soup, whatever. And I do the reverse too...except he never wants fishead soup. Approx. 50% of our meals are shared. Other times we are eating dishes separately because that's what the person felt like cooking and eating it for dinner.

IN the end, all I can say is: we have meat 1-2 times per wk., I eat more rice than he does, he eats certain pastas that he/I prepare... we both eat tons of fresh fruit, ...

Makes sense??? I assure you, we have some good recipes. In the past few months, he has done some lovely gourmet meals that come from his head ..take-offs of real recipes.