Pocket Kitchen

POCKET KITCHEN — Everything you need. Nothing you don't.

Most meal planners are enormous, and most of their pages go unused.

There'll be a mood tracker in there somewhere. A gratitude section. Forty pages of habit grids you filled in for nine days in January. And buried somewhere in the middle, the four or five pages you actually wanted.

This one is only the four or five pages.

WHAT IS DELIBERATELY NOT IN HERE No mood trackers. No habit grids. No gratitude prompts. No water logs. No monthly reviews. No quotes to colour in.

They're all perfectly nice things — and not one of them helps you get dinner on the table.

WHAT IS IN HERE — 80 hyperlinked pages

PART ONE · THE BASICS (four pages, filled in once — twenty minutes, then never again)

• Your Ten Meals — everything you can already cook without looking it up. Ten is plenty; rotated, it covers a fortnight without repeating.
• The Staples — the things that should never run out
• Anchor Nights — two or three nights that never change. Friday is pizza. It's not boring; it's quiet.
• Allergies & Needs

PART TWO · THE WEEKS (the heart of it)

• 24 weekly spreads — near enough half a year. Every week is a pair:

— The plan. Seven dinners, lunch if you want it. Dinner is the column that matters; the rest is optional and always was. — The list. Built from the plan, never the other way round.

• The two pages cross-link to each other, and every list page taps straight through to your staples check. Tap any of the 24 weeks from the contents page.
• One Week in Review page. Exactly one.

PART THREE · THE KITCHEN

• 12 recipe cards for your own
• THE WORLD KITCHEN — three complete recipes, written out in full:

★ PAD THAI (Thailand) — three minutes in a hot pan, and the entire art of it is having everything ready before the wok goes on ★ HUEVOS RANCHEROS (Mexico) — char the tomatoes and chillies in a dry pan. Four minutes, and it is the whole difference between a decent salsa and a very good one. ★ CONGEE (China) — one part rice to ten parts liquid. The congee is the canvas, not the painting.

Metric and imperial throughout.

WHY SMALL IS THE POINT A planner you finish is worth ten you abandon. Everything in these 80 pages earned its place, and everything that didn't was cut.

UNDATED Start any week. Skip a fortnight. Week Twelve waits for you. You buy this once.

WORKS WITH — GoodNotes, Notability, Noteshelf, Xodo, Samsung Notes and any PDF annotation app, on iPad and Android tablets. Also lovely printed.

INSTANT DIGITAL DOWNLOAD — 3 PDF files. No physical item. Personal use only.

Everything you need. Nothing you don't.

— Arwign Planners