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The Rooted Me
A house that runs, food that gets made, and a week that does not fall over on Wednesday.
This week
Seven dinners, one shop, nobody asking what is for tea at 6pm.
Photographed on the day it was actually made, on the plates it was actually served on.
4:3 · Sunday
3:2 · the pantry
1:1 · bread
3:2 · Tuesday
4:3 · the shelf
1:1 · the freezer
Everything here comes out of one household, mine. The prices, the timings and the amounts are the ones I got, not the ones a recipe promised.
What it takes to run it
Meal plans, from-scratch basics and the systems underneath them. Start with a free week. The rest is priced like what it is: a few hours saved every single week.
one week
One week of dinners
Seven dinners, one shopping list, costed. The week most people run twice before buying anything.
12 weeks
A season of dinners
Twelve weeks, each with its shopping list and its cost. Built so Sunday cooking covers Monday and Tuesday.
from scratch
From-scratch basics
Bread, stock, jam, yoghurt. One card each, with what it costs against buying it and whether that is worth your hour.
the week
The week that holds
Laundry, cleaning and pantry rotation as one schedule. The part nobody photographs and everybody needs.
everything
Everything, and everything next
All three packs, plus every season added this year.
12 · the cat
Cat peeing: sort it and fix it
It started after the baby came home. Which of two problems it is, and three things to do tonight. Most of them are moving something you already own.
photographs
What is actually in my kitchen
The things in daily use after three years, the two that were worth the money, and the one everybody buys and never uses.
Questions people actually ask
- What does a loaf of bread cost to make at home, once you count the flour and the hour
- How many dinners can you really get out of one roast chicken
- What to batch cook on Sunday so that Monday and Tuesday are already done
- Building a pantry from nothing, on one income, without a bulk store
- Which four meals freeze and reheat without tasting frozen
- Is a stand mixer worth it if you bake once a week
- What a homemaking schedule looks like with a toddler in the house
- The kitchen things that get used every day, and the ones that were a waste
A new season, when it lands
A new season of dinners every few months, and the kitchen list when it changes. One email each time, nothing else.
Six other lives are open from here.
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