A Detailed Week to Cut Your Cook Time!

We did all the work for you: here’s a meal plan with cooking schedule and costs!

The “HOW TO” part of meal planning, budgeting and mouth feeding without spending all week in the kitchen.

I created this week menu and game-plan as a snap-shot example of how to incorporate a range of budgets into a single week (from A-grade to C-grade meals) and still come out at UNDER $250 per person for a monthly grocery estimate… while fulfilling Calorie and nutrient needs.

Research supports eating a vegan or pesca-vegan diet to promote a more healthful longevity, so I’ve also included a vegan rendition for this week. The vegan and non-vegan meals are all included in this single file. In other words – each recipe is either inherently vegan or easily made into vegan meal.

Use this handy PDF file for detailed informative examples.

ABOVE: page 1 of 3: TWO main cook days per week (to help prevent food spoilage and spread out the workload). The above schedule can be modified to WEDNESDAY + SATURDAY cook-days if you prefer, to help balance with work schedules (just shift all of the days over 1).

Below, on “page 2”, I break down precisely how to arrange your cooking schedule for the weekday so that it maximizes the amount of food cooked for the least amount of your time. I successfully completed the Tuesday plan in 50 minutes with an emergency toilet leak and a toddler running after me to jump in the “puddle”. I know.

Below, on “page 3”, I break down precisely how to arrange your cooking schedule for the last weekday so that it maximizes the amount of food cooked for the least amount of your time. Yes, I’ve tried this. It works.