#139: What's Your Planner Personality? 5 Meal Planning Personality Types

This week we're talking about planner personalities! After years of talking to Plan to Eat customers, answering dinner dilemmas, and reading your emails, we've noticed some pretty distinct patterns in how people approach their planning. We put together five meal planning personality types, and we think you're going to recognize yourself in at least one of them.

We walk through each type, the pros and cons, and make the case that most of us are actually some combination depending on the season of life we're in.
If you think there's a meal planning type we missed, we'd love to hear about it at podcast@plantoeat.com.

Sign up for a free trial + get 20% off your first annual subscription: plantoeat.com/PTEPOD

Contact us: podcast@plantoeat.com

Connect with Plan to Eat online:
Instagram
Facebook
Pinterest

Transcript

planner personality types
===

[00:00:00] I'm Riley and I'm Roni. And this is the plan to eat podcast, where we have conversations about meal planning, food, and wellness. To help you answer the question what's for dinner. 

Hello, everyone. It's Roni and Riley. We're back with the Plan to Eat podcast

Today we are talking about meal planning personality types. And I think this isn't gonna, this isn't Enneagram, it's not the Myers-Briggs, it's not like that. It's just there's some different ways people meal plan, and we're gonna talk through those. And I think everyone at different phases in their life are gonna meal plan with a different personality type. Not that they change, but the circumstances around planning change, and it does affect how you meal plan day to day

Yeah, totally. And just so everybody knows, this is not scientific. We have done no psychological research into these meal planning types. It's all just based off of our observations and, you know, when we are interacting [00:01:00] with Plan to Eat customers, how we see them meal plan, or the types of questions that people ask, and all that good stuff.

Yeah. Arguably, this is actually a, like, one of my favorite things about the dinner dilemmas, about sometimes when people email us, they'll tell us how they utilize the program or how they meal plan and, and how... Like, they'll, they'll say, "Here's how I meal plan. Here's a feature I need, because this is the way I do it."

And it is shocking sometimes how people's brain takes something and uses it in a different way than I do. It's just amazing to me that people's brains... I, I don't know, like, I would've never done it that way, or that is really... Like, what an intelligent way to utilize that feature. Whatever it is, it's just, it's just really interesting.

It's one of the most interesting parts, I think, of doing this

Yeah. I was actually just talking to one of our coworkers yesterday about Plan to Eat, and before he started using, before he started working for Plan to Eat and using Plan to Eat, he used,, a big nutrition app, right? Like, he's like a macro [00:02:00] counter, yeah.

it.

And, and so he was saying, he was like, "Yeah, the way that I meal plan is I, like, build meals."

You know, like, he doesn't necessarily plan a recipe. He plans ingredients because a lot of his meals are just, like, a protein, a carb, a vegetable, a fat kind of a thing. And so, like, we don't have, I guess, in our list here, we don't necessarily have that type of a meal planner as a personality type. But I just thought it was really interesting because when he first said, like, "I build meals," I was like, "I don't know exactly what you mean by that."

Until he, like, described it to me.

Yeah, yeah. We've... I mean, that is totally a way that people meal plan

I mean, I would say that's the way that I meal planned when I didn't know I was meal planning because I was very involved in the fitness industry and I was doing macro counting and that kind of thing. And when you're macro counting, it's way easier to do those buildable meals than it is to make a recipe and, like, assume you have the right portion size

Yeah. And also, that certainly is easier to do [00:03:00] depending on what your family size is, right? 'Cause you don't have to have as many very specific amounts and things like that.

Yeah, exactly

Yeah. I think the thing that people run into with that is, like, they need something they don't have, so they just wing it instead.

And I mean, I kinda just want the things that I wanna have, so... So I'll also build a meal plan and just include, like, okay, I want this kind of marinade on that chicken or this kind of sauce on the side, which means I have the ingredients to make that

Right. Well, or a lot of recipes in my Plan to Eat account are just for... Well, like what we're eating tonight is like a, I'm gonna say this wrong, so correct me if I do, the gochujang, gochujang, gochujang. Is

Yeah.

that... I'm saying it right, more or less?

saying it right more or less. I, I mean, I'm, I can't correct you. I don't know.

Okay, yeah. Anyways, it's like the gochujang chicken, and that's the whole recipe, right?

Is like how you season the chicken and then cook it.

Yes. Yeah, if you don't have that,

you have to build the meal around that, right? Like, you have to say, "Okay, we wanna eat this [00:04:00] with rice," or, "We wanna eat this with roasted vegetables." Um, a lot of the recipes that I have in my Plan to Eat account are that. They're not like a full meal

Yeah, yeah. If, uh, often that's what I'll do also because I'll plan the one part of the recipe that needs the recipe, or one part of the meal that needs the recipe, and then, oh, we're gonna have rice or, or Brussels sprouts, and then I'll just, like, write that in as a note, and I don't need a recipe to cook those two things.

If I did not plan recipes, even just for those kind of pieces, I would end up eating the same flavor profile for far too long. Oh, it was really good last night. We'll just do that again. Well, that's what we've got. I guess we'll do that again. And then you're like, "I never wanna eat that again."

I'd probably mostly eat Mexican food.

Oh, yeah, always. I mean, just like leaning in that direction.

like a taco bowl. I'd just be like taco bowl with, like, one different topping

Yeah, and I always have those kinds of ingredients around, so it's easy.

Right, exactly.

Mm-hmm.[00:05:00] 

Okay, so let's get into some of these, uh, meal planner types that we thought about. And just so that everybody knows, this is, this is something that I think, like, you can be... Like Riley said, you can, like, go through different of the different, la-la. You can go through these different personality types throughout different phases of your life, and I also think you can be combinations of these, right?

It's not an end-all be-all that you're always one type of planner.

The first one I would say is the one that I lean into the most.

Mm-hmm.

It's the 24/7, 365 planner. And that sounds really, uh, extensive. I mean, this is the one I do the most often. Like, um, I'm gonna meal plan almost every... Not every meal of the week. I'm gonna plan dinners

Well, see, then I, I don't think I would say you're a 365

not? You wouldn't?

What would you say?

I think you're the next, I think you're the next one

Okay, [00:06:00] okay. Let's just run through them all so people know where we're headed, so people know. Three, six- 24/7, 365 planner, minimalist planner, spontaneous planner, future planner, and every few days planner So you think I'm the minimalist? Oh, okay. All right.

Well, let's run through what they are. Okay. 365, plans every meal, every meal of the week. Okay, you're right, I don't do that. I wing it. Okay. Plan to Eat is a lifesaver for this group of people because I could not imagine planning breakfast, lunch, and dinner seven days a week without some hand-holding.

Oh, yeah

That would take up hours

Creating the shopping list for all of that would be insane

Yes. Merging all the... Trying to figure how to like, okay, do I have enough onion? Do... Where do I account for extras? Like, what do I do? Um, that would be really hard

Yeah.

to do it without Plan to Eat.

Yeah, but I think this is necessary for some people because they have a really tight schedule, you know? And so they need to [00:07:00] plan arou- like, plan around very specifically a busy schedule, or potentially people who have dietary needs, specific allergies, or, you know, whatever kind of dietary need that they might have where they're only eating food that they cook themselves.

They're not, they're not able to rely on food outside of the house, so they do have to be super intentional about what's on their meal plan and make sure that they do actually have food for every meal that they wanna eat during the week

Yeah. The nice thing about this, the, the pro, the pro to this is that there is no questioning or doubts about what you're eating.

Right

There's no, "Should we stop somewhere for lunch? Do we have anything at home?" Um, there's no, uh, "Oh no, what are we gonna have for breakfast today? Because I didn't think about it."

Like, every bit of it is planned and shopped for, which is the most helpful.

Yeah, I think that there's a lot of, like, I'm gonna call it security in this type of meal plan where, yeah, like you, you have no doubt [00:08:00] because just like, well, I made the plan. We got all the food. Now we just gotta execute. And usually these people are great at execution

Mm-hmm. And I think for people who do this because of dietary needs, there is no other option, right? Like, there is no other option but to execute. Particularly I think about the people that we've talked to who do this for their children, and it is lifesaving for their children or their families or just their whole circumstances, you know?

Their entire circumstances. All of... What is the word I'm trying to think? For their life circumstance.

Now that you've said it like three ways, I don't know what the right way is.

who's listening just, just, just let's just, just move on. Sorry. The con to this one is there is no wiggle room, no flexibility, which I think you're right, this is not mine. Because I like some flexibility.

But this is for people who... I mean, honestly, there are people who like this the most because there is no flexibility. There's no question marks, right? Um, there's just no wiggle room for anything to change here, which I think could be considered a con, but a pro for some people [00:09:00] who like that

Sometimes one person's pro is another person's con.

Oh, that's so good. Yeah.

Okay, so next we have the minimalist planner. So this is somebody who plans minimally for the week. They like to have the flexibility and the opportunity to make different choices on the fly as their week changes, as the week develops. Um, it's not a super set-in-stone meal plan

And this one is probably where... This is also where you'd say you fall in,

Yeah, I think so.

Yeah.

I, I, I based this one off of us.

Yeah. Th- this one is definitely, I think, a pretty common because... And, and, and honestly, it's the feedback that we try to give people is, like, hey, like, don't do too much, especially if you're new to meal planning.

Just, like, get... Just dip your toes in it. You know, you and I both plan for four, four nights a week, five nights a week, and then just have other [00:10:00] food on-hand for other meals, which some people are gonna feel very, overwhelmed by, 'cause they're like, "I've got ingredients, but what do I do

Right

with them? I don't have...

I just don- I just got a little bit to work with." The thing I like about this the most often is, like, the flexibility and ability to make the choice on the fly, 'cause I can move whatever we're having for dinner tomorrow night, I can move to tonight if that's what we need to do for time or preferences. Um, and it does give a little space to say, "Oh, we're gonna go out to eat this night."

It's not... Or we're not wasting food. We're not pushing it off to next week or things are gonna go bad. Um, I, I like this one a lot

Yeah. I would say that the con of this one that you and I have both experienced is that often, n- not often, sometimes you can get caught not having a plan for the next meal potentially. And this is where you and I have talked about that idea of, like, you have backup meals, you have your recovery meals, so that way if you do get caught where you're like, "Oh, I haven't made the next meal plan yet," it's totally fine.

[00:11:00] But, I do think that's also, like, a, a practiced aspect of this, right? Like this, while I do think that this minimalist planning is really good for newer people to meal planning, there also is, like, a, a practice aspect of it where it's like you have to figure out what is the right amount of minimalism for you and your family without constantly getting caught without something to eat for, you know, dinner tonight or tomorrow night or something.

Yeah. I tend... That's exactly right. I tend to have, like my pantry is well-stocked. Like, I, I'm never, like, worried that we're not gonna have a meal, which is a blessing, right? Like, I'm not worried about that. And I do have those back-up on hand. But I would agree with you, that's a little bit more like minimalist and minimalist plus

Right

know? Like, we plan minimally, and we have minimally back-up, we have minimal back-up, and we, like, know how to work the two together. We know how to restock it, um, so that it's, like, ready for the next time without it being the exact same recovery meal, you know? Um, it's kinda [00:12:00] like minimalist plus

Yeah.

The next one is the spontaneous planner, which is the planner that, um, I think you and I struggle with the most with the dinner dilemmas, is because we have a hard time telling somebody who wants to make a decision on the daily to make a decision for the week, because that's a, is a really hard shift.

But this person is, like, always wanting to meal plan on the fly. Like, they might be the person who goes to the grocery store every two days. Um, and they're like, "Okay, we're gonna have salmon tonight, and we're gonna have steaks tomorrow, and then we're gonna have a vegetarian dinner on Thursday maybe, if I feel like it."

Yeah

Um, they're gonna decide what they eat around cravings or seasonal food or whatever strikes their fancy

Right. I feel like we talked about this a really long time ago, or maybe I just only saw it on Instagram a really long time ago. But I feel like I remember hearing, seeing potentially, it's a very vague memory, okay, [00:13:00] of a person who was, like, against meal planning, and they, and they defined themselves as, like, a very creative individual, and so they wanted to be able to just, like, as the...

Even as the day unfolded, not like, "I'm gonna wake up in the morning and decide what we're gonna eat for dinner," but it was like, "At 4:00, I'm gonna see, like, what feels good, what sounds good, like, what colors are speaking to me." Like, it was a very, like, like, esoteric, I think, way of, of looking at dinner. And I just remember being like, "I don't identify with this person at all."

That's funny. I, uh, you know, you and I always say, like, everyone actually is a meal planner. They just, uh, may not know it.

Yeah

Because, you know, we'll say, like, if you're planning to get takeout tonight, that is your dinner plan. Like, that's your meal plan. I don't totally identify with that either because I don't have the luxury of meal planning based on instinct or, like, [00:14:00] desire, like momentary, like...

You know, it's not like, you know, that's the nice thing about going to a restaurant, right? Is like you've got this menu, and you just get to have whatever whim you wanna have to order. But that, doing that at home is so difficult,

'cause

I don't live close to a...

you're not looking at a menu necessarily to decide what sounds good, and also, yeah, you don't necessarily have all the ingredients.

Right.

But when you're

as I think something sounds good, I'd have to go to the store because I wouldn't have it.

Yeah, like when you're doing it, whenever I'm doing that at my house, I'm like, "We have macaroni and cheese, and that's it."

This type of planner, though, probably does a really good job of leaning into what their needs are. Like, um, you know, we talked a little bit about with the deep dives, like nutritional deficiencies.

Like, if you're- if they're, like, really leaning into their cravings, then potentially if their cravings are leading them down what their body needs, then they're gonna maybe do a good job of, like, f- you know, filling, filling up what their body actually is craving and needing. And there is a way to do this as a [00:15:00] also being a meal planner.

You know, we've talked a lot about this as, like, you can put meals on the planner, just don't put too many, and then maybe plan around some ingredients that sound good, and then use those to be spontaneous within your week. You just kind of... It's like, uh, spontaneity within confines.

Right. Well, or, yeah, or it's like that, um, book that you reviewed that's like the no recipes recipes, and that person's recommendation was basically just have like have a really well-stocked pantry, and then you can make all of these different recipes just with like basic ingredients that could be found in your pantry and in your cupboards.

So like there's that possibility too where it's like I think you would still be grocery shopping with intentionality, but that takes some skill in cooking

Yeah, it does. Yeah, I would say that the spontaneous planner probably does need to have a pretty good skill level

I would think so. Yeah

I think the con here for this meal planning type is just the potential to [00:16:00] maybe get overwhelmed by it, though most people I know who are a little bit more seat of their pants, like spontaneity kind of people, they don't get as stressed out.

So I don't know that stress would be the problem here, but there could definitely be like overspending happening at the grocery store because you buy things and then don't use them, or you don't use them... You didn't buy enough or you needed to buy more, extra trips to the store, and then potentially wasted food.

If you're like, oh, on a whim, I'm... I do this all the time. If I see something in the store and I'm like, ooh, that sounds great, if I do not make it within two or three days, I will never make it

Right

And so my spontaneity can definitely end in wasted food

Right. Yeah. Well, and when you're going to the grocery store every night to find the things that, like, sound good or look good, as we've talked about before, you never go and only spend $14.

No.

You go and spend 40. It's just, it's like the rule of the grocery store, I think

It is, it is hard. It's hard to stay on track with your budget when you just start kind of like wandering. Um, 'cause I always get sucked in, especially in like the produce [00:17:00] section. Like, oh, those look... Those strawberries are beautiful. I haven't seen a tomato, a beautiful tomato like this. I hope it tastes as good as it looks.

Like that kind of thing, especially in the produce section

Yeah. All right, our next personality type is the future planner, which is the type of person who gets their planning done well in advance. So we're talking like one month or more. They're doing like a bulk planning session, getting all of their meal planning done. I interviewed a longtime Plan to Eat customer, her name's Rebecca Zip.

This is probably like a year ago, maybe a year and a half ago. It's a really great interview if you are a Plan to Eat user and you like to do this bulk type of planning, because she, like, really goes into the Plan to Eat side of things in that interview. But the interesting part about her is that she does the future planning because she doesn't like to meal plan.

Ah

And so for her, it's a way to, like, get it out of the way for the whole month. She's just like, "Look, I make my meal plan for the whole month, [00:18:00] and then I really don't have to think about it again because I don't really enjoy meal planning." But she's like a great meal planner still

This is, uh, well... Okay, hold on. A lot of people are bad at things, or a lot of people don't like things that they're very good at. That's what I'm trying to

Sure, yeah. Mm-hmm. 

I like this idea seasonally.

Mm-hmm.

I think this is a great way to meal plan in the summer.

Right

I think taking a meal plan, um, you know, with... You know, summertime feels like almost like constricting to have a meal plan because there is so much like fluidity to like, okay, well, are we gonna do this?

Are we gonna go to somebody's house? Are we gonna grill out? Are we... Oh, what's it? What's in season? I went to the farmers market. Like that kind of thing. So I think just having a basic structure of a meal plan is the best way to go about this, then that bulk of it is done. You know, I'm thinking like, "Okay, we're gonna grill out tonight.

We're gonna grill burgers." Great. Okay, I went to the farmers market and I got some beautiful tomatoes. There were some great onions. I'm gonna s- I'm gonna grill this squash. Like, you can, you can [00:19:00] add those supplemental pieces, but meal plan at the same time.

Yeah

And I just think that using this in the summer is a great way to kinda like get the thing done that you know you need to do, but then it, that space of not having to plan allows you to like enjoy the time.

For sure. Well, I mean, and seasonally, it's also great to do around the holidays,

Oh, for sure

as we talked about last year around the holidays, it is really... it can be really easy to plan for the holiday day and then forget that dinner happens every other night of the week.

Totally. Totally

So if you did, so if you did your future self a favor and just planned for, like, the whole month ahead, then you really wouldn't have to worry about the rest of the meal planning, and it's just, you could focus more of your energy, I guess, on, like, if you're hosting a Thanksgiving dinner or something.

Yeah, absolutely

But in general, I think that this personality knows that planning is a favor- favor to their future self, whether it's for the same reason as Rebecca, [00:20:00] where she just doesn't like planning, or if it's just that, you know that it's something that you like to have checked off your to-do list for a long time.

And again, this is a place where Plan to Eat is a huge lifesaver because you can just create an endless amount of meal plans

Yeah, and reuse them so you don't even have to create endless ones. You can just create a couple and rotate through them. Yeah, the, that burden is lifted for the foreseeable future, like, which is really nice. I like that idea. I don't do a good job of this. I don't do a good job of sitting down and planning for the long term.

But when I do, I'm usually really grateful that I did

I have started to implement it more. I think I mentioned a few episodes ago that, that I h- that I made a monthly meal plan, and I've been using that, and so far it's been really successful. Like, there is the, you know, I think the con of this style is that, there is still, like, weekly planning that needs to happen.

Like, I still am reviewing my meal plan every week to make [00:21:00] adjustments to things, and if you don't like to meal plan, that could definitely be a con for you. But overall, I feel like the benefit outweighs the con in this case because, like, the heavy lifting's done

Yeah. Just that little bit of weekly maintenance.

Yeah

And then last up, we have our every few days planner. This is someone who is only meal planning once they're out of things to eat, uh, which is great. That's, that's great, right? It's, it's a good way to do it. Um, you're probably not wasting food this way.

And you're just doing it based on... Like, a need-based planning. Um, my family doesn't really love that because then we run out of things to eat.

Right

But if you... And then, and then, you know, then I'm like, okay, but then I have to figure out when I'm gonna add the grocery trip, um, into the weekly plan, and then the weekly maintenance gets a little bit more bulky.

Right

They [00:22:00] probably... I think this personality type probably doesn't identify too much as a planner. They probably just do it because they have to eat.

Right.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm thinking of, like, this was the type of planner that I was before I started using Plan to Eat, was, was basically like I would go to the grocery store probably about every three days and would, like, be like, "Okay, so tonight we're gonna do this, and tomorrow night we're gonna do that." And I, I feel like this personality type can, like, kind of blends with the spontaneous planner in some ways for that same reason.

But the, like, being at the store all the time, I'm just gonna jump right to the con because I think it's, like, pretty obvious here, which is, like, if you're at the grocery store all the time, you're gonna spend more money than you mean to, just like we mentioned earlier. And are you really out of food at your house?

You know? Like, most people's pantries and cupboards and freezers have some amount of food, and it's just like we have that mental block sometimes of, like, you look in the [00:23:00] cupboard and you're like, "There's nothing to eat. I need to go to the grocery store."

or it doesn't sound good.

Right. But as we've said, like, I could go over to Riley's house and Riley could be like, "I don't have anything to eat," and I look in her cabinet and I'm like, "You got 17 different meals here, let me tell you all about it."

Yeah, it's definitely e- easier to look at somebody else's, yeah. Yeah. The co- the pro here I would say is that they, similar to spontaneous, they're li- they're eating what sounds good, fresh, seasonal ingredients. Like, they're going and buying immediately what they need and then us- using it right then.

Yeah. 

I would say I don't like planning every few days, but there have been a few seasons of my life where I'm like, it's all I can really think about, is like, okay, you know what? Let's just... We- this is what we know, this is what we know we need. Just let's just do that, and I'll think about it when I have time to think about it.

Right

Um, but I don't love when I get into that routine because then I kind of stay in that routine longer than I want to, 'cause I can't seem to get ahead of it. If I just sat [00:24:00] down and just did the planning, then I'd be able to get ahead of this. But I, I don't like to go to the store multiple times a week.

I would really... I really try to avoid that

Me neither. Yeah, there have been times where I just have been sort of, I'm gonna call it like absentee to my meal plan where just like where I become this kind of every few day planner because I, I'm just not like super invested in the meal plan. So it's like I get in Plantie and I'll just put two recipes on the meal planner and then be like, "Cool, I'll go to the grocery store tomorrow."

And then like two days later I'm looking at my meal plan being like, "Why didn't I just plan more? I already was at the grocery store." You know? Didn't do my future self a favor in that regard

And it, and like the thing ab- the, the thing about it to me is like it really wouldn't have been that much more work.

No. No, that's exactly what I think in the moment is I'm like, "I was already at the grocery store. I was already doing the thing." It wouldn't ha- it wouldn't... I mean, maybe we... Well, I would've been at the grocery store 10 minutes longer [00:25:00] to get some extra stuff maybe, but yeah

Yeah. Even if you just double it so you h- can eat it for two meals, gets you a little longer, then it's no extra time at the store.

That's so true

yeah. But I also am trying to, like, give myself the benefit of the doubt in those seasons. It's like when I've had to do it, I was pretty desperate. Okay, just get us a meal for tonight.

We'll figure it out you know? Like, like that's, that's a pretty, that's a, that's a season of my... Like, if my brain can't also do that, I've got a lot on my mind. 

Well, I think we could have come up... I mean, we, we didn't wanna make an endless list of meal planning personality types. I think we could have come up with, like, the takeout meal planner. Like, a leftover personality type. Like, they do that idea where they just double everything. The batch cooking, you know, you could've al- you could also say that's like a batch cooking meal planning type.

We could've said lots of things. If you have a... If you think you're a different meal planning type than what we have said here, we would love to hear about it. Email us at podcast@plantoeat.com. Tell us how you meal plan and [00:26:00] what you think you should name that personality type.

Yeah, I like that. We'll definitely read it. Yeah. Some, I mean, we did say that a lot of these are combination.

Oh, yeah

I think combination is pretty accurate. Like, everybody's kind of a combination, um, just based on life. Life happens

Yeah

all right, Riley, you wanna talk about what's on your meal plan before we head out today?

Yeah, my meal plan is brought to you by a six-year-old and a three-year-old. Yeah, I just... It's one of those weeks where I was, you know, really struggling with ideas and, yeah. So we are having... We had hot dogs that we grilled, that we, like, roasted over the fire, which was really fun. Um, my three-year-old was like, "This was my idea."

I was like, "It was your idea." She was so, so proud of it. So that was fun. Uh, and then we're gonna have burritos and hamburgers, and then, like, a sweet potato and Brussels sprout, like, chicken, like, like a sheet pan meal.

Mm-hmm.

So that... [00:27:00] It's, it's pretty basic this week. But I just needed some help with some suggestions.

So hot dogs, hamburgers, and burritos. Those were my children's suggestions,

Yeah.

supplemented with fruit and veggies.

Yeah. Yeah

I like those meals, too, I just, they almost always wanna eat hamburgers. My kids would eat hamburgers every single night of the week, and that is not my preference, so.

Yeah.

What about you?

We... Let's see. Last night we had a one-pan sausage and couscous dish, like a, um, skillet dish, and it was flavored... It was supposed to be flavored with harissa, but I couldn't find any harissa paste at the grocery store. So I think I need to go to a specialty grocery store to really get some. So I kinda, like, w- I whanged it on the, on the, uh, seasoning side of things.

But let me tell you what. This was one of those recipes where, you know, it's a one-skillet meal. It's a one-pan meal. And usually when a one-pan [00:28:00] meal calls to cook the grain in the one pan, I avoid it, because I'm like, if you cook... You're supposed to cook rice in the pan with all of the other things. I feel like it takes 10,000 years to cook, um,

of extra liquid

tons of extra liquid, or if it's, like, you cook the noodles in the thing and then it's like, why is there so much liquid?

The noodles don't absorb as much liquid. I don't know. But couscous I feel like is the exception, because it cooks so quickly, or maybe just whoever wrote this recipe did a great job, and it was like the amount of liquid was great for the amount of couscous, and it only s- takes, like, 10 minutes for couscous to cook.

So that was great. And then we're having that go to Jane chicken tonight with rice and some roasted vegetables. We're gonna have an Italian grinder salad, ground beef stir-fry, and then, Thai peanut chicken bowls courtesy of Riley's suggestion.

Hope you love 'em

All right, well that wraps us up for this week. We appreciate you listening, and we'll talk [00:29:00] to you again in two weeks