Sunday evenings I'm standing in the kitchen thinking right, there are four of us, my husband will eat anything, my daughter is doing some version of low carb, my son is 22 and basically a labrador, and I'm trying to get more protein in without it turning into a separate meal for every person. I've started doing three nights planned, three nights winging it, one night everyone fends for themselves. The planned nights I'm leaning into things like a big tray of chicken thighs with whatever veg is cheap that week, or a lentil and sausage thing that stretches further than it has any right to. Both do fine for protein and don't cost a fortune which matters because everything costs a fortune now. What I've noticed, and I want to mention this at my next GP appointment because I can't tell what's what, is that my weight has been slowly creeping up since about 2021 even though I genuinely don't eat more than I used to. If anything I eat less. I've been trying to write down roughly when it started and whether anything else changed at the same time, just so I have something concrete to say rather than 'I don't know, a few years maybe?' Anyway. Does the three nights planned thing work for anyone else or does it fall apart by Tuesday? x