I have two new jobs now and am juggling a hectic schedule, which means the work I am doing here has increased personal relevance. I’m seeing now that it’s real easy to talk about how easy it is when you have all the time in the world to make whatever you crave (or whatever you can).
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Now that I’m a working girl again and not a pompous ass I will admit I have not made a single lunch for myself. Nor have I done a proper grocery shop. Nor have I compiled a list for said shopping. But that stops here!
Starting from almost zero, what would appear on your grocery list? This requires versatile ingredients and a solid strategy. Think about meals and snacks, packable lunches, making things ahead and accounting for, no – depending on leftovers.
Mine usually looks like this, a list of staples*:
- eggs
- grains (bread, rice, pasta, cereal – preferably brown or whole)
- yogurt (with fat in it)
- cheese (for eating raw and cooked in/melted on top of things)
- fruit (for stewing or snacking)
- vegetables (for salads, snacking and cooking)
- canned tomatoes
- cheap cuts of meat (should contain skin, bones, fat)
- butter (unsalted)
- milk (with fat in it)
- garlic, ginger and onions
* assume local, seasonal and naturally raised or organic where possible
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I have lived alone for almost my entire adult life, and even when in couples, rarely been joined in the kitchen or at the table by my boyfriend/ girlfriend. So, cooking for one was the order of the day, until I discovered cooking for two…as in, two meals, one belly. Dinner tonight plus lunch tomorrow. Hooray! It’s actually really easy once you have a few meals on the roster, and you just go to the fridge and pantry, make whatever, and pack half (or, in your case you could cook for three and pack 1/3 of it) for lunch.
Menus that work well include:
1. steamed green thing (kale, chard, beans, peas) + grilled beast (fish fillet, chicken parts, slabs of beef) + starch (multi-grain pilaf, roasted root veg)
2. one-pot meal (in winter, really, like stews, hearty soups, casseroles)
3. the tomato tart I’ve made you a couple times on my balcony, plus a massive salad (if you put sturdy things like pancetta or bresaola, olives mashed and pitted but left whole, and goat cheese in the tart, it helps it hold together once cool and transports splendidly in a container!)
Grocery list:
yoghurt
milk
lemons
fresh herbs (unless it’s summer)
eggs
some kinda cheese
maybe fruit (probably apples, pears and berries, depending on the season)
chicken
trout
a slab of chocolate as big as my face
whole nuts
oats
(the above are for making my own granola)
dark leafy greens
green beans
potatoes
Mmmmmm hmmmm delicious! From that list, I could make a week of meals, easily…including gnocchi sauteed then tossed with arugula, an awesome thing where you take two trout fillets and fill the centre with ground almonds, shredded herbs and lemon rind then tie them together into a pair, and bake them, then slice them into pieces for serving, granola to last 7 breakfasts, and served with fresh fruit and yoghurt, a batch of bircher muesli, and probably a latté or two.