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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow this really helps me op I appreciate it!  How do you scale it though, is that per person  per week?  How does it split into meals ie two veggie meals per week ?  I’ve got three growing boys and a carnivore husband so I struggle with meal planning.  We do eat a lot of beans does that fall into starches? [/quote]

I assume you would scale. Say you buy 15 pounds of meat, you should buy 25 pounds of veggies. If you buy 6 pounds of meat, 10 pounds of veggies.

But the whole thing seems silly to me. It's like you're buying the food for one week and expect to consume it all that week. That's not how I shop. I buy certain essentials: for me that means 1 gal milk, 1-2 onions (I don't buy bags ever since a fruit fly adventure, so I weill buy one onion no matter what), fresh fruit for the week, veggies (I buy 5 lb carrots at a time, which lasts awhile, so that's part of the veggie stock). Anything else is determined by 1) what I am out of and use regularly enough I need to keep it around; 2) what's on sale and can be stored, so I stock up--that's where meat, fish, chicken, and cheese come in; 3) what I need for a special recipe or meal.

The rest is just meal planning.

PP beans are considered both protein and starch in terms of meals, although cornbread or fresh tortillas with chili just makes sense to me, and falafel and hummus go on pita, so there you are. Maybe the magic numbers should be adjusted for a vegetarian diet because that will focus on grains and legumes. 
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