https://youtu.be/9eaDl78PK_kThe average monthly cost for my approach to food would be around 435 PLN (117 USD)The biggest barrier to entry into my system is the freezer, because the air fryer is, cheap stuff.In fact, I used a can of legumes because stores don't stock them in bulk and I didn't want to buy online for the film. This increased the cost of this item by about 60-70%. Using dry chickpeas bought in bulk would have reduced the operating costs even further. Besides, I mentioned what would be worth buying in bulk. So this system can be optimized even further financially, probably down to 300-350 PLN.And I wasn't optimizing solely for cost, but also for health and minimal effort. The magic of discovering frozen foods.And the best proof that my system actually went through TRIZ and wasn't just "embellished with theory" is the potato. Initially, I wanted to eliminate it from the chopping process entirely, but it turned out there was no sensible reason to strive for zero chopping at all costs. I found a better solution: I don't eliminate potatoes, I just eliminate the repetition of the process.Potatoes -> ONE chopping -> soupDinners -> pre-cooked frozen potatoesThis is a pretty elegant solution to the contradiction.So, in my system, the only vegetable left to be regularly chopped is onion.Carrots are outsourced to sauerkraut/soup.If you have your own ideas for improving this system, please leave feedback.
Take rice and just mix other crap in there. Throw on hot sauce if it's too bland
>>22147794and you will eat it for a month, right?
>>22147798Pretty much
>>22147790Looks like a good collection of foods Polish anon, what made you want to optimize your eating?
>>22148532I wanted to optimize the whole process rather than individual recipes.I was spending too much effort on food relative to what I actually got from it: shopping, chopping, cooking, cleaning, deciding what to eat, etc. At the same time I didn't want to solve that by just eating junk or spending money on takeout. So I optimized the whole pipeline: shopping storage cooking freezing eating washing dishes.So I set three main objectives: low cost, reasonably healthy food, and minimal effort. Variety was also important, but I treated it as a constraint rather than optimizing taste above everything else.TRIZ helped me approach it as a system-design problem: batch cooking, modular components, frozen vegetables, reusable bases, eliminating repeated operations rather than necessarily eliminating the ingredients themselves, etc.The result is basically a food system rather than a collection of recipes and a daily chore.
>>22147790If you start cooking with the potatoes first you can just boil them whole and then just break them up with a spoon while adding the other ingredients. If they're not too big you can boil them whole. I don't usually add potatoes but when I do I usually steam them in a microwave while everything else is cooking and add the potatoes later. I use small potatoes anyway.Chopping onions isn't inescapable, maybe you can get bulk bags of frozen onions. I don't mind chopping aromatics, it's the only chopping I normally need to do for soups and such. I'm very fast at it now (knife skills!)I dislike chopping carrots though
>>22148605That's actually useful feedback.I used a very similar method for supper, but after I came across a rotten potato while cutting it for soup, so i preferred to at least cut it in half Frozen onions could potentially eliminate my last regular vegetable-chopping operation. And truth be told, one of my mixes contains onions, so I'd just have to sort them out from the package, which would add unnecessary time (but okay, I didn't optimize the prep time, so i can count). I couldn't find frozen onions without anything else, just peas.I think the interesting part is that I'm not necessarily trying to optimize how fast I can chop vegetables. I'm trying to make chopping unnecessary in the first place. Knife skills are great, but "don't need the knife" is even better if the tradeoff is acceptable.And yeah, I also hate chopping carrots, which is why I outsourced that shit to frozen vegetables and sauerkraut :D
