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Meal and Market Planner
Fifty-two meal pages for planning what gets cooked and what gets bought, and eighteen ruled pages for the rest of the kitchen's paperwork.
Specification
- Trim
- 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
- Pages
- 80
- Leaves
- 40
- Sheets
- 20
- Signatures
- 4 × 20pp
- Spine
- 4.58 mm
- Paper
- white
- Ruling
- lined
- Ruling pitch
- 9.17 mm · 26.00 pt
- Rows per page
- 18
A market list written from memory in the car park is missing at least one thing by the time the trolley is half full. Fifty-two meal pages exist so the list gets written at the table first, against a plan for the week's actual meals rather than whatever comes to mind standing in an aisle.
Each page holds a week: what gets cooked, and beneath it, what has to be bought to cook it. Fifty-two of them cover a full year of weeks without ever printing a date on one, so a week skipped in June is exactly as usable picked up again in November.
A recipe worth keeping, a substitution that worked, a note about what one particular guest will not eat: eighteen ruled pages at the back hold whatever a meal page does not fit. The book holds no recipes of its own and gives no dietary guidance. It only holds the plan you already have.
What is inside
- Meal
- 52pp
- A week's meals and the shopping list beneath them, on one page, never dated.
- Notes
- 18pp
- A recipe worth keeping, a substitution that worked, a note about a guest's diet.
- Reference
- 10pp
- Owner details, unit conversions computed from definitions, and emergency numbers checked against two sources.
The film
Page by page
A vertical film from our own bench — this page contacts nobody's server to play it, and downloads nothing until you press play.
Real pages
Made at the Hibrkraft bindery, Bogor · about the maker
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Questions
What goes on a meal page?
A week's meals, and beneath them, the shopping list needed to cook them.
How big is it?
A5, 148 x 210 mm, 80 pages, 4.58 mm across the spine.
Is it dated?
No. There are fifty-two meal pages for fifty-two weeks of use, and a week skipped in one month is usable again in any other.
Does it include recipes or a diet plan?
No. It holds the plan you bring to it: your own meals and your own shopping list, not a prescribed menu.
What ruling are the notes pages?
Lined, 9.17 mm, for recipes, substitutions and anything else a meal page does not fit.
Indeed, honest friend, it looks well, and tastes well, I thank you for it, and so does my friend _Peter_, or else he is to blame.
