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Comment by jvilk

There are meal recipe subscription services that do exactly that. I've been a subscriber to CookSmarts for a few years now, and love it!

https://www.cooksmarts.com/weekly-meal-plan-service/

I pay a low monthly fee for four recipes a week and have access to the archives if I don't like some of the recipes. I like to jokingly call it 'Netflix for meal recipes'. Each recipe has a vegetarian, paleo, and gluten free variant, and it creates a shopping list for your week. You can get a free trial if you want to see what it's like.

Recipes specify what you can prepare ahead of time (so you could do most of your prep for the week in one go), and contain embedded videos showing how to do some of the prep steps if you are inexperienced.

I will note that I simplify some of the meals. For example, some recipes contain salads and specify how to make a particular salad dressing from scratch, but I opt to use prepackaged salad dressing to save time. Other recipes specify expensive items, like capers, that I skip.

I also have lost weight eating these recipes in the portions specified, which has been quite nice.

(Note: I'm not affiliated in any way with CookSmarts; I'm just a super happy customer!)

parent jvilk 8 years ago

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