The last time I had a dedicated meal planner was 2020. As per usual, I started my year with the 30-days of home-cooked meals challenge and my plan for the year was to track how many meals we ate at home. Ha!
Little did I know that those few out-and-about meals would be my last for years and that going into 2024, we’ve foregone done-in eating at restaurants all together. To say that I burned out on meal planning is an understatement.
I’ve said it here several times over the last few years, but it bares repeating… cooking and how I thought about getting meals on the table in a world where eating at home is the only safe option has fundamentally changed my approach. I stock the fridge differently. I shop differently. What I need from my CSA haul and how often I need it has changed. What I cook has changed. When I cook has changed. WHY I cook has changed.
And so, I am settling back into an actual paper meal planner for the coming year instead of scribbling notes in my everyday planner or a field notes. It’s time to commit these newish methods to paper and see how decipherable it all is for folks that don’t live in my head.
Welcome back to my fave Hobonichi Weeks which leaves me plenty of room tracking, planning, and note-taking. She’s my favorite project-based planner and I am excited to break her spine and scribble in her.
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