Hours of cooking the same boring meals. You already know what they were.

Chicken. Rice. Broccoli. Repeat.

The worst part? Cooking 15 meals for the week — then tossing most of them by Thursday. I can still taste that rubbery 5-day-old chicken.

Then I remembered how we fed 200+ people living in a tin can for months at a time, with one "restaurant" and zero alternatives.

When I ran a kitchen in the Military, we used theme nights.

You've probably done at least one:

This simple tactic made planning for a 6-month deployment simple.

For each theme night, you can change up the menu. But you have a template for what type of recipe to plug in the slot.

Because now you’re not asking “what should I cook tonight?”.

Instead, you’re wondering “what fits into Taco Tuesday”?.

Maybe you make enchiladas one night, or a steak burrito.

Marinara Monday doesn’t have to mean one meal either.

It’s a category, which could be any of the below:

The main point is that it gives you a baseline of what type of meal you’ll be cooking each weeknight, which is 90% of the battle — always wondering “what’s for dinner?”.

Once I switched to using this framework for my life outside of the Military, meal prep stopped being a 3-hour Sunday chore. It started becoming a 10 minute weekly setup that I looked forward to each night.

Marinara Monday leftovers? Next day's lunch.

Taco Tuesday extras? Thursday's dinner when you've got nothing left in the tank.

Anything you won't eat that week — freeze it. Pull it out on the nights you're running on empty.

If you want help actually setting this up into a repeatable system (not just the idea), that’s exactly what I built Meal Planning OS for.

It takes this framework and turns it into something you can execute in 10 minutes a week.

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