Do you know what you ate on 24 February 2010? I do! I know…🤓

I started meal planning when I was at Uni, soon realising if I was going to survive on a budget, it was what I needed to do.

It was around 2010, however, that meal planning became a passion for me. There was more to it than just being mindful of budget; it was a way to ensure I could work my way through the thousands of recipes in my cookery books, try and test out my own creations, recall the delicious meals I ate out as well as play around with ways to make it quicker, easier, flexible and useful for anyone no matter their circumstances. 

Since 2014, my meal plans have been recorded electronically but back then, they were written down like this. I can’t bring myself to throw them away.

By the way, dinner on 24 February 2010 was potato, pea and spinach curry using a curry masala paste from the freezer, tarka dhal and naan.