
Feeding a family when everyone eats differently
A teenager, a toddler and two adults are not four equal portions of the same meal. Planning around who's actually eating changes the quantities, the recipes and the shopping list.

A teenager, a toddler and two adults are not four equal portions of the same meal. Planning around who's actually eating changes the quantities, the recipes and the shopping list.

Most grocery waste isn't cooked and abandoned. It's bought twice, or bought and never opened. A list built from the plan fixes both, if it gets three things right.

The 5pm question is expensive: it costs a takeaway, a second shop, or a bag of spinach that never got used. Here's a way of planning a week that survives a real Tuesday.

Everyone knows groceries have gone up. Almost nobody can say which things, by how much, or whether the price on the shelf today is a good one. Your receipts already know.