3-Step Framework to ‘Revolutionize’ Your Meal Planning

September 26, 2017 By Leave a Comment

I started by coming up with ‘template’ or blueprint recipes I could adapt depending on the ingredients I had or what I felt like cooking. It’s like taking the ‘Variations’ I include with all of my recipes to the next level.
Over her 20 years of living in Italy, she realized that none of her Italian friends use cookbooks. Apart from the occasional fancy dessert recipe for a special occasion, they pretty much always just cook from the heart.
When I want to make a quick stir fry, for example, instead of coming up with a recipe from scratch, I think back to my ‘template’ and go from there.

The Same as in Tuscany. Where people just buy ingredients and cook them. Where cooking dinner is viewed as a joy and a privilege, a chance to relax and unwind not another chore to face when you are tired at the end of a stressful day.
“By far the most life altering class of yours I have done. Has completely changed how I work towards cooking in my confidence & the kitchen! Has freed me from my meal planning on a Sunday. An unexpected result was it has made me more intuitive towards meals & in turn made me listen to what my body needs, rather than what my meal plan said.”

It may take a little bit of time to get used to this. And if it seems a bit too daunting, I have a solution…

“I already was a pretty experienced and independent cook before, but I tended to neglect at the everyday, ordinary meals. I overplanned, which resulted in menus, which were too complicated for amount and my schedule of work, and consumed period of time. I was too tired to cook according to plan, even when I did follow it, I usually ended up with many leftovers and ingredients that I didn’t use up.”
Clara, Master Your Meal Plan Owner

One of the keys to getting this ‘system’ to work is to break-free from traditional recipes.

Imagine yourself being able to enjoy your trip to the market, just like an Italian house wife.
Jules x

Stop wasting your time and energy by ‘reversing’ the meal planning process. Instead of deciding what to cook first and then buying ingredients, we need to get you shopping first and THEN deciding what to cook.

I know it may look a little ‘too good to be true’ but first a story…

If this seems a bit to scary, you can take baby steps. Instead of planning every single meal, or whatever you’re doing, leave a few nights free and see what happens.

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Today I’m going to share with you my 3-Step Framework for ‘reversing’ the meal planning process.
If you share this vision, I’d like you to join me for Master Your Meal Plan.

Click on the link below to find out more:
Before I go, I want to live in a world where home made food is the norm.

STEP 3. Stop cooking from recipes.

And the beauty is, you can learn to plan and cook that way too!

Chorizo with White Beans recipe here

All you need is to follow my 3 simple steps…
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And then she said something that surprised me.
One thing I really want to stress is that this isn’t just another meal planning ‘instrument’ or some software to make traditional meal planning a little bit easier.
However if a ‘done-for-you’ system is something that interests you, or if ‘not having to think’ sounds more your style, I recommend having a look at ‘Soupstones Meal Plans‘, which is a separate weekly meal planning service I offer.
I’ve recently become obsessed with Frances Mayes and her wonderful books on living in Tuscany. So I’ve been re-reading, (or rather listening to) ‘Everyday in Tuscany’ on my morning walk.

To be honest, if you would prefer to ‘outsource’ meal planning and have someone else just tell you what to cook each week and give you a shopping list to follow, this probably isn’t the right approach for you.
With love,

Nicole, Master Your Meal Plan Owner

And the good news is, it’s not as difficult as you’d think. I’ve helped hundreds of people learn to ‘undo’ their meal plan and discover a more liberating, satisfying easy way to get food on the table.

3 Steps to Simplify Your Meal Planning.

I enjoy looking over Mayes’ shoulder as she shares what daily life is like in rural Italy.
As part of the Master Your Meal Plan online program, I’ll show you my ‘2-Minute Planning Formula’ which will help you calculate exactly how much food to buy.
ps. If you want to simplify and create your cooking and planning easier, healthier and tastier I’d like to become your coach!
Next week, we’ll go deeper into how you can stop cooking from recipes, so don’t worry if it looks like something you’d never be able to master.

Published at Tue, 26 Sep 2017 08:55:44 +0000

Now if you’re thinking ‘this all sounds really nice’ but I’m not sure it will work for me, I have good news!

Now before you start thinking ‘there is NO WAY I could cook without a recipe’, you don’t have to turn into a master chef overnight. It’s not as crazy as it sounds.
I also want to make it clear that it’s definitely not a ‘done-for-you’ solution.
Is meal planning something you wish you didn’t need to spend time worrying about?

This will not only save you loads of time creating your detailed plan, it will make shopping more fun (!)
You probably already have an idea of what you need each week for breakfasts and don’t plan them out in detail. So it’s time to extend this to dinners and lunches as well.

You won’t be following a strict list, you’ll be free to choose the seasonal produce that looks the most appealing on the day. And of course, it will allow you to make the most of any ‘special’ discounts on the spot.

http://thestonesoupshop.com/mymp17/

What if I told you there’s a better method?
That time-consuming meal planning, as you currently know it, could become a thing of yesteryear?

The way I taught myself to ‘cook without recipes’ was to start thinking of recipes in general terms instead of specific ingredients.

STEP 2. Learn to shop for what you need.
STEP 1. Stop planning in advance.

Source: Natural Foods

Chorizo with White Beans recipe here

3 Steps to Simplify Your Meal Planning.

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