Sunday meal prep: five lunches, one tray
One tray for the chicken and vegetables, one pot for the rice. I divide the batch into five portions before putting everything away.
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Recipes
Everyday recipes with the number of portions written down, and how I divide them.
October 2026
Halving a recipe: what scales and what doesn’t
Most recipes are written for four, and most of my dinners are for two. Halving sounds easy until you meet an egg, a tin of tomatoes or a cooking time. These are my notes.
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Overnight oats, measured
My “little splash” of milk was different every evening. Here’s the one-bowl version I wrote down, with enough room to change the fruit.
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A pot of red lentil soup, six bowls
A soup is the easiest thing to portion badly. This red lentil version is written for six bowls, and the trick that made it work was measuring the finished pot with a ladle.
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For years I cooked pasta by pouring it straight from the bag until it ‘looked right’. It never did. A cheap set of kitchen scales fixed that, and it’s why this notebook exists.
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