What I eat when I'm shipping
Three meals, one rule, and why I stopped pretending I would cook on launch week.
I used to pretend I would cook on the week I was shipping. I would buy groceries, plan meals, post pictures of the pan I had not used. By Wednesday I had eaten three times at the same place down the street and the groceries were starting to look at me.
I have stopped lying about this.
The three meals#
Coffee and toast, on the same plate, made in two minutes. Soup from a place near the studio at lunch, the same soup most days. Pasta in the evening, the same shape, the same sauce, with whichever vegetable did not spoil during the week. Variety is not the point on a shipping week.
The point is decisions that are already made.
The rule#
If I am shipping, the food decision is made before the week starts. Not a plan, not a strict menu — three defaults that I do not negotiate with. Negotiation costs minutes that compound.
What it changed#
Shipping weeks are no longer also "what am I eating" weeks. I am sleeping better. I am working better. I am eating worse, but only relative to weeks I am not shipping, and I am at peace with that trade.
The weeks I cook well are not the weeks I ship well. I no longer try to do both.