ADHD Guide to Meal Planning: Meal Planner for people that hate meal planning

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Meal planning can be exhausting. You have to consider what you want to eat in the future, what you have sitting in the fridge, and what to buy today to cook in the next few days.Layer that with actually remembering to eat, managing your time to prep and cook, and not getting distracted while cooking; you can be left with a sense of overwhelm before you even begin!It can feel like there are a hundred moving parts, and a hundred reasons for meal planning to fail.So how do we get it right?Maybe we don’t.Maybe, what we need is a new way to shop, prep, cook and eat that works for us at in whatever circumstances we find ourselves in.Maybe we need to throw the old rules about perfect meal planning down the drain and create a flexible, bespoke way of doing this ourselves.Why we made this plannerHi *waves* I’m Jade, a neurospicy designer who has nerded out on all the ways executive dysfunction, sensory issues and the OVERWHELM of:Planning mealsBuying groceriesPrepping foodCooking the foodCleaning upActually getting fed multiple times a day, every single dayEating is an “essential” human activity, but it’s so dang hard depending on your energy, mood, budget, time, and how many dirty dishes are still cluttering up the kitchen.This planner is designed to help you…Understand your unique taste + needsReduce decisions and overwhelmCreate easy meal options when you’re out of spoons and energySave time, effort and cost in the kitchenEliminate the need to meal plan and meal prep the “standard” wayWe do this by including:weird, fun and/or crazy solutions for kitchen strugglesquizzes, reference lists and inspirationtools and options for dealing with specific executive dysfunctionsa section for your unique menusThis is NOT:a series of generic meal plansa how-to guide on perfect, healthy eating as “Fed is Best!”loads of questions to answer with no context or reference listsA “normal” way to meal plan and prepSpark some inspiration in the kitchen (or at least make it easier for you when it comes to food each week) with fun quizzes and exercises to help you break out of the made-up rules around meals and discover meal planning that is bespoke for you - by you!