Meal planning fails when it assumes you will cook something new at every slot. Most consistent eaters rotate a small set of meals and leave one or two slots open.
Pick anchors you already like: a breakfast you can assemble half-asleep, a lunch that survives a commute, and two dinners you can cook on a weeknight. Grocery lists should fall out of those anchors, not the other way around.
Build plates in a fixed order if decisions are the hard part: a protein source, a high-volume plant food, a carbohydrate that matches your training, and a fat you enjoy. The combination can change; the structure does not.
Batch the parts that spoil your evening — grains, a tray of vegetables, a pot of beans — and assemble at mealtime. Full “meal prep Sunday” containers are optional.
In Calora, saved recipes and meal plans exist for this loop. Log the anchor once, copy it forward, and spend attention on the meals that were actually different.
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