Nutrition · 12 recordsCook more at home

Cooking more is usually blocked by two small things: not knowing enough meals by heart, and a kitchen where every meal needs a shop first. This fixes both, and then the routine is just cooking.

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Goal

Ten meals I can cook without a recipe Month 3

Enough to never need a takeaway on a Tuesday.

Learn the ten Month 3

One at a time, repeated until it needs no recipe.

  • Choose ten meals worth knowing by heartDo firstDay 5
  • Cook the first three, twice eachWeek 4
  • Get to ten, cooked at least twiceMonth 3

Set the kitchen up Week 4

So cooking does not begin with a shop.

  • List what the ten meals share and buy it onceDo firstDay 10
  • Get the four or five tools that actually matterWeek 4

Routines

  • Cook from scratchdaily
  • Restock the cupboard staplesweekly
Skills
  • CookingBeginner → Intermediate

    Rename this if you like. Logged practice is what shows the ten meals becoming automatic, which does not feel like progress while it happens.

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Ten is enough

Ten meals you can cook without looking anything up is enough to never need a takeaway out of tiredness. Breadth comes later and mostly comes free once the habit exists.\n\nThe stocked cupboard is the other half. Cooking that starts with a shop is the thing that sends people to a delivery app at seven o'clock.

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Cook more at home, answered.

Because ten meals you can cook without a recipe is enough to never need a takeaway, and it is a small enough number to actually reach. Breadth comes later, and mostly comes for free once the habit exists.
A stocked cupboard of the things your ten meals share, so that cooking does not begin with a shop. That single change removes most of the friction that sends people to a delivery app at seven o'clock.
This one builds the ability; meal planning organises the week. If cooking itself is the obstacle, start here — the meal planning template assumes you already have a rotation to plan from.
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