Nine recipes beat twenty-seven recipes.
Meal prep usually means cooking five identical lunches and resenting them by Wednesday. The alternative is not more recipes - it is fewer, chosen so they combine. MealMosaic publishes components rather than finished dishes: three bases, three proteins, three sauces. Cook nine things once and you have twenty-seven dinners.
How we test
Every component is cooked at least twice on an ordinary home stove. More importantly, each one is tasted against all the tiles in the other columns before it earns a place on the grid - the chicken against all three bases and all three sauces, and so on. A component that only works with one partner does not belong in a system like this.
What makes a good tile
- It keeps. Bases four days, proteins three, sauces five. Those figures are on every page, because a grid is useless if half of it spoils by Wednesday.
- It is good cold. Nothing here depends on being served hot from the pan, which is what makes combinations practical on a weeknight.
- It goes with everything in the other columns. Not equally well - we say which pairings we would choose - but nothing on the grid clashes.
The maths, honestly
Three times three times three is twenty-seven. That is a real number of distinct dinners, but they do share components, so the twenty-fifth will not feel brand new. The honest claim is that nine cooking sessions give you several weeks of varied dinners without repeating the same plate twice in a row.
About the domain
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