How To Save 5 Hours of Cooking and Grocery Shopping Every Week

Do you have time to spend 1 hour cooking every day? If not, learn how to save time cooking and grocery shopping.

Explaining how to make your food fast, healthy, varied, and affordable.

TLDR Summary

Build up a library of 40 recipes in your local home delivery app, plan meals 1 week ahead and have the food delivered to your door. This saves money, time shopping and adds variety.

Using recipes, you can make it healthy by having full control over what you eat and cooking mostly from the ground up.

Save time by cooking 4 portions per person in the oven using oven-, dishwasher-, and microwave-proof glass containers.

The 10 Steps of Fast, Healthy, Varied, and Affordable Cooking

Planning, Recipes, and Shopping

1. Find & store recipes in Paprika Recipes Manager 3. Criteria for choosing recipes:
   • Preferably oven cooked. If not, below 15 min cook time
   • Below 15 min prep time
   • Max 5 ingredients.
2. Build up a library of 40 recipes/shopping lists for meals in your local home delivery app. I use Oda in Norway and store the recipes as lists.
3. Plan dinner/lunch 1 week in advance on the weekend in Paprika.
4. Order food from a home delivery app.

Cooking

5. Make 4 portions per person.
6. Use kitchen appliances you can put in the dishwasher.
7. Cook in the oven.
8. Bonus: Cook directly in portion-sized oven-, dishwasher-, and microwave-proof glass containers. If you eat meat, use a thermometer to get it perfect every time.

Eating

9. Eat 1 portion, and store 1 portion in the fridge for lunch/dinner tomorrow. Store 2 portions in the freezer. Reheat in the microwave when needed.
10. Serve the food in containers instead of plates or use them as bowls and eat from plates.

Cleaning

11. Put everything that needs to be cleaned in the dishwasher.

Author: Marius Norheim