Food and Cooking

6420 readers

5 users here now

All things culinary and cooking related. Share food! Share recipes! Share stuff about food, etc.

Subcommunity of Humanities.

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

alyaza@beehaw.org

Gaywallet@beehaw.org

SoaringFox@beehaw.org

remington@beehaw.org

How are you able to cook while working full time through the week? Do you have some kind of strategy? How do you plan your food? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Templa@beehaw.org to c/food@beehaw.org

54 comments fedilink hide all child comments

We want to break out of this cycle of ordering delivery but at the same time, cooking everyday has been a challenge. We also have been trying to develop some sort of routine where we meal prep on the weekends but we live in an apartment with a really small kitchen so cooking and storing food for 5 days doesn't seem doable. Maybe cook for 3 days and then prepare the ingredients to cook again on Wednesday?

I'd appreciate if you could share your strategies and experience. The goal here is to eat healthy and good food.

Edit: Thank you everyone for all your contributions! I am a little overwhelmed by the number of replies so I if I do not reply to you please do now feel bad!!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] d0c@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I used to love cooking, but have not had the time lately. I bought an Instant Pot and have been pleased so far. As other commenters have said, a pressure cooker is the magic solution here, but I do appreciate that mine also functions as a traditional slow cooker and air fryer. I live alone, so cooking once a week is normally enough to last most of the week (or more), so I usually find a recipe I like (usually just by searching "Instant Pot [whatever food sounds good]") and cook it on a weekday. I end up eating a lot of soups. I like soups.