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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This seems very gimmicky. I don’t want to have to tailor my meal planning to an arbitrary grocery list. I plan meals and then buy the necessary ingredients. Once in a while, if there’s a really good sale that I stumble onto in the grocery store, I may make a spur of the moment change to my menu plan.[/quote]

+1. This seems like something that you would use if you don’t know how to cook a meal or shop for ingredients. Sometimes you just need to buy milk and eggs. Sometimes you just need cucumbers and tomatoes. I can’t imagine anyone shopping with this restrictive rubric. [/quote]

Try it once. Just try buying the items you need for a week based on these numbers/person in your home who eats.[/quote]

I'm not sure why the number varies with the number of people in the home.  Maybe a little bit, but if I'm making chicken thighs with quinotto, roasted carrots and broccoli, and peaches and blueberries for dessert (a meal that might be in line with the 5, 4, 3, 2 thing, assuming I ate the other food for breakfast and lunch), and I have 3 other people coming, then I need 4 times as much of each ingredient, but I don't suddenly need 8 veggies, because everyone will still be eating the same menu.  [/quote]

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