What’s For Dinner? More Decision Making Than Recipes

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The Sisyphean Task

To have a choice is something to relish, to enjoy. Though this is not how I always react when it is a question of midweek dinner planning or even weekend food planning. From the various memes scattered across the internet, I know I am far from alone. It is truly a Sisyphean task (PS read the Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus and you may become as fond of using the term Sisyphean as I am).

Tomes of recipes can help, sort of, but you still have to decide. Ten different spag bol recipes across ten Jamie Oliver recipe books (in my view generally good but of varying quality, the best of which is his first 5 ingredients book) don’t help you much if you had Italian for the last five days running.

How to go about deciding then? It’s not a question of what to cook. Rather it’s a question of what to eat.

This series attempts to chronicle different ways of deciding and see how well they work in hope that perhaps it’ll help others.

Format

Roughly speaking I’m going to chronicle a week of eating at a time. I’m not huge on breakfast except on weekends so this will largely focus on lunch and dinner.

I’m not going to complicate the initial part of the series on the minefield that is feeding the kids, though I’ll eventually cover it as an essential part of the decision making process if you happen to have kids.

Frequency

I’m going to try and do at least one a week…try…starting with next week!

Please pitch in below with your thoughts as I go through the series.