Meal planning (92/365)

T used to shop for our food most days, which meant that dinners tended to be whatever caught his fancy while he was in the shops. (It also meant that we ate quite a lot of convenience foods, partly because sometimes he didn't feel like doing anything complicated, but also because our local Tesco Metro doesn't really have a great range of things to make interesting meals from scratch, and the big Sainsbury's is a bit of a trek.)

Since the start of lockdown, we've switched to weekly food shops (almost all at the little Tesco, though we've done a couple of click and collect orders at Sainsbury's), topped up with a weekly veg box (initially via a localish coffee shop which had branched out into lockdown groceries, then from Riverford). And this means that we have actually had to plan meals for the week in a way we never used to, and seem to end up spending inordinate amounts of time discussing what we're going to eat. (We are eating better, though, for values of better which involve less convenience food and more vegetarian/vegan/mainly vegetable-based meals.)

After yet another conversation where we decided we should have X, forgetting that we had already discussed this and agreed on Y, I have just bought a small whiteboard to keep in the kitchen and write our week's meal plans on. Maybe this will reduce the number of conversations about what to eat we end up having...