I’m probably not your desired audience as I meal plan in six week chunks and do more ingredient and freezer prep for family meals than single meals. I don’t mind spending ten minutes in the evening putting it together, but I don’t want to spend much more than that, since I have arthritis in my feet, and especially in the winter, they don’t like me standing on them too much.

I have ADHD and get bored easily, but I am also autistic and so I like to know what’s coming next. Five week meal plan works and lets me vary things within my safe set of meals, and lets me make things that my partners like to eat. I’m not cooking just for me, after all.

Tonight we’re having peanut chicken. My wife LOVES it, I like it well enough, and my husband is okay with it. Tomorrow night is turkey pot pie. I LOVE it, she likes it, he is okay with it. Friday is chicken piccata. He LOVES it, I am okay with it, and my wife likes it. We rarely have anything one of the three of us absolutely can’t stand, and this way it’s a nice mix between things I’m okay with and things I love, and I can be good with this.