I started cooking ahead the week I ran out of dinner ideas three evenings in a row and ate cereal standing up. Not for macros, not for a body goal — just to stop making the same decision at seven in the evening when I had nothing left to decide with.

So this site is meal prep for people who do not particularly enjoy cooking during the week. Everything here comes out of a normal supermarket, gets eaten over several days, and is judged on how it tastes on day three — which is the only test that matters.

What you will find here

• Weekly Plan — one cooking session, the shopping list, and what it came to.
• Make-Ahead Breakfast — the ones that survive until Thursday, and the one that goes soggy.
• 20-Minute Dinners — with a timer actually running.
• Budget Cooking — cheap weeks with the receipt attached.
• Pantry & Gear — containers and staples, tested long enough to know.

How I work

• Every recipe is cooked before it is published, in a normal home kitchen with normal equipment.
• Timings are measured, not estimated. If it took forty minutes, it says forty minutes.
• Prices are from an actual receipt and carry the month they were paid, because groceries do not stay still.
• If something did not reheat well, that is in the article too — usually near the top.
• Recipes are updated when I find a better way, with a note on what changed.

Why there is no photo of me

A monogram instead of a face. I would rather you trusted the timings than a portrait, and I am not going to invent a chef who does not exist. The hands in the photos are mine, the kitchen is mine, and that is as personal as this gets.

Something did not work in your kitchen? Write to contact@prepfiction.com — that kind of message is the most useful one I get.