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This strikes me as sort of being the opposite of "hacking" your food: instead of finding a creative, new way to prepare your meals, you build a repertoire of a

• tptacek 18y ago
  For a lot of people --- maybe most people in America, and almost certainly most hackers, the alternative to a strategy like this is simply eating out every night. There are certainly a lot of ways to engineer variability into planned, pre-prepped meals, but be that as it may, the "hack" here is to allow yourself to cook at all when you have a lifestyle that almost demands nightly Thai takeout.
• tptacek 18y ago
  For a lot of people --- maybe most people in America, and almost certainly most hackers, the alternative to a strategy like this is simply eating out every night. There are certainly a lot of ways to engineer variability into planned, pre-prepped meals, but be that as it may, the "hack" here is to allow yourself to cook at all when you have a lifestyle that almost demands nightly Thai takeout.
• iamelgringo 18y ago
  I understand that this may be a gain in efficiency, but I can't see how anyone who calls themselves a foodie could enjoy eating the same eight dishes on a slightly-randomized schedule for months at a time. We don't do the same 8 meals every month. We've actually grown to having about 30-40 separate recipes that we rotate through. On, any given 4-6 weeks, we have the same meal 4-5 times.