{"id":47,"date":"2026-09-02T22:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T22:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/mini-supermarket\/2026\/09\/03\/five-lunches-from-one-shopping-trip\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T02:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T02:58:13","slug":"five-lunches-from-one-shopping-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/mini-supermarket\/2026\/09\/02\/five-lunches-from-one-shopping-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Lunches from One Shopping Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"\">One cooked chicken, one bag of leaves and a short list of storecupboard extras will carry a working week of lunches without cooking twice.<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 style=\"\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Buy One Anchor, Not Five Meals<\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"\">Meal planning fails when every day gets its own recipe, because every recipe brings a half-used ingredient with it. Buy one anchor instead \u2014 a cooked chicken, a tray of eggs, a tin of tuna \u2014 and let the rest of the week be variations on it. Five recipes need thirty ingredients. One anchor and five dressings needs about twelve.<\/p>\n\n\n<h4 style=\"\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Week<\/h4>\n\n\n<ul style=\"\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\t<li><strong>Monday.<\/strong> Chicken, cucumber and cherry tomato over leaves, with a lemon and oil dressing.<\/li>\n\t<li><strong>Tuesday.<\/strong> The same bowl with kidney beans added and a spoon of the dressing thinned with yogurt.<\/li>\n\t<li><strong>Wednesday.<\/strong> Chicken through cold rice with spring onion, which is the day the anchor stops looking like salad.<\/li>\n\t<li><strong>Thursday.<\/strong> Egg and leaves, because the chicken is finished and Thursday is the day everyone gives up.<\/li>\n\t<li><strong>Friday.<\/strong> Whatever is left, in a wrap, with the last of the dressing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<h4 style=\"\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dress at the Desk<\/h4>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"\">Carry the dressing separately in a small jar. A salad dressed at seven in the morning is a wet salad by one in the afternoon, and that single habit is the difference between a lunch you look forward to and a lunch you buy again on the way to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote style=\"\" class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\t<p>Cook once, dress five times. Nothing about a week of lunches has to be interesting except the last thing you add to it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One cooked chicken, one bag of leaves and a short list of storecupboard extras will carry a working week of lunches without cooking twice. Buy One Anchor, Not Five Meals Meal planning fails when every day gets its own recipe, because every recipe brings a half-used ingredient with it. Buy one anchor instead \u2014 a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_brandy_post_header_transparent":"inherit","_brandy_post_header_template":"inherit","_brandy_post_footer_template":"inherit","_brandy_post_header_blur_background":{"type":"inherit","value":3},"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[39,31],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recipes","tag-meal-prep","tag-quick-meals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/mini-supermarket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/mini-supermarket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/mini-supermarket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/mini-supermarket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/mini-supermarket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/mini-supermarket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/mini-supermarket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/mini-supermarket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/mini-supermarket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/mini-supermarket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/mini-supermarket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}