KITCHEN PRACTICE 2 — Build Your Own Weekly Meal Plan
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TASK
Using this chapter's own table as a starting point, write a real 5-7
day meal plan drawing on dishes and techniques from this course,
adjusted to what you actually like to eat.

WALKTHROUGH

Step 1 — Start from the course's own dish list.
List out every real dish and technique this course has covered:
scrambled eggs, pancakes, crepes, Thai beef salad, roast/pan-seared
chicken, pan-seared fish, a fresh green salad, a basic white sauce,
a pan sauce, rice, pasta, roasted vegetables, fish and chips.

Step 2 — Pick genuine favourites, honestly.
Not everything needs to be in rotation every week. Choose the 4-5
dishes from that list you'd genuinely be happy to eat regularly — this
is about a real repertoire, not proving you can cook everything.

Step 3 — Slot them across your week.
Assign your chosen dishes to specific days, the same way this
chapter's own table did. Leave room for at least one "whatever's in
the fridge" day, using Chapter 9's own substitution skill rather than
planning every single meal months in advance.

Step 4 — Balance for real variety.
Look at your plan as a whole: is it all pan-fried? All using the same
2-3 vegetables? A genuinely sustainable weekly rotation usually mixes
cooking methods (Chapter 4) and protein types across the week, not
just different named dishes that are secretly all very similar.

Step 5 — Note which chapter each dish draws on.
Exactly like this chapter's own table did — this isn't just
decoration, it's a genuine check that you can actually recall the
technique behind each meal without looking it up every time.

Step 6 — Write it down somewhere you'll actually see it.
A plan that exists only in your head rarely survives contact with a
tired Tuesday evening. A shopping list (Kitchen Practice 3) built
from this plan is the natural next step.

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WHY THIS MATTERS
The whole point of a repertoire, per this chapter's own framing, is
that it's genuinely repeatable without relearning technique each
time — a plan built from dishes you've actually practiced in this
course, not aspirational ones you've only read about, is what makes
that repeatable in practice rather than just in theory.