My superpower is creating dinner when everybody else swears we have no food. The cupboards look bare, the fridge has dwindled, but voila, outta seemingly nowhere, lentil soup, crusty garlic bread (with garlic confit!) and a tangy cabbage salad. Fresh, healthy, homemade—check . . . check . . . check!
And though I’ve gotten pretty dang good at it over the years, should that really be plan A!?! Isn’t there a better way?!
Enter: My friend Amanda (award-winning cookbook author and former head of culinary at Williams-Sonoma). So many of you might remember her from being a special guest at the FOOD LA LA COOKING CLUB, or from the House of Haas cooking school I helped her launch a few months ago. Though I’d argue she has nine million superpowers (she seared scallops for a crowd of five thousand with Gordon Ramsay and cooked a Thanksgiving feast for the whole cast of Hamilton!), meal planning is her superpower.
She recently shared with me that several years ago money had been very tight in her house. But she refused to not feed her family well. With some diligent planning, she could cook 20 meals a week for a family of four on a $200 budget (Carry the 4 . . . that’s $2.50 a serving! And she shopped at Whole Foods and included two bottles of wine each week!) She posted her recipes, method, and receipt to her blog each week and acquired over 10,000 readers who loved to follow her meal plans!
With the cost of groceries increasing (Anybody else noticing that?! Eeeek!) Amanda just launched her House of Haas Meal Planning Method—a four-week course with pre-recorded classes, live Q&A, and recipes you’ll treasure for a lifetime—that breaks down her four-step method to meal planning!
I’ll be taking the course with her members and because I’m such a believer in her work, she’s gifting the FOOD LA LA audience with 15% off. Click below (enrollment closes August 9th!) if you want to try it out.
P.S. She offers a full refund within 7 days if you sign up and decide it’s not your cup of tea. But I kinda think it will be your cup a’tea!