Reply #4: but with a basic plan, you could vary so many ways!

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If, for example, I roast a turkey breast or a ham or make meat balls or .... and I make the basics for some deli-style salads, such as cook some pasta, roast some vegetables and redskin potatoes, cook some couscous or quinoa, and prep a lot of vegetables and stock some cheeses and jarred things, I could go a lot of different directions each night, spontaneously. Mexican, Greek, Indian, Italian....whatever.

The chicken/turkey could become taco filling, or caesar salad, or old-fashioned chicken salad, or sandwiches, or a zillion other things. And so it is with the other basics that get cooked on "pantry day."

It's not a new idea. Just takes some determination.