Why is it so hard to meal plan for the week?

Question

Every week I run into issues planning meals to cook for the week for myself and my family.It's the hardest thing I've done in my life. The planning, the grocery shopping, figuring out what ingredients to buy for simple, healthy fast meals to cook.How have you all hacked your meal planning / cooking to make it easier?

PaulHoule · Accepted Answer

The usual advice is that most people eat the same few meals over and over again.So just learn to get good at cooking one meal, then two meals, and pretty soon you have all the meals.

yosito · Answer

> Every week I run into issuesWhat kind of issues?

Why is it so hard to meal plan for the week?

The usual advice is that most people eat the same few meals over and over again.
So just learn to get good at cooking one meal, then two meals, and pretty soon you have all the meals.

> Every week I run into issues
What kind of issues?