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Cook Once, Eat Three Times

Buy one package of chicken. Cook it once. Turn it into tacos, a rice bowl, and pasta so you are not starting from zero every night.

  1. 1. Buy one package of chicken — about 1.5 to 2 pounds, thighs or breasts, whatever is on sale.
  2. 2. Cook the whole package once on a sheet pan. That is dinner number one plus leftovers.
  3. 3. Night two: tacos. Night three: rice bowl. Night four if you still have some: pasta.

Cook the package

40 min

Sheet-Pan Chicken

Chicken and vegetables on one pan. This is the 'cook once' base. You mostly wait.

$11 · 36g protein · 360 cal

Then use the leftovers

12 min

Chicken Rice Bowl

Leftover sheet-pan chicken + rice + something green. Night two of cook-once week.

$4 · 40g protein · 520 cal

10 min

Chicken Tacos

Night one after sheet-pan chicken. Warm tortillas, pile chicken, drown in salsa.

$4 · 32g protein · 450 cal

15 min

Chicken Pasta

Night three. Noodles, leftover chicken, spinach, cheese. The package is gone and you did not order out.

$3.50 · 36g protein · 560 cal

Store cooked chicken in containers, 3 days max, reheat until steaming.