Two Hours on Sunday

Description

You think you gave up because you’re disorganised. But the truth is that almost nobody abandons the packed lunch through lack of willpower — they abandon it because the plan they followed was built as a chain, where each day is the raw material for the next. One lunch out on Tuesday and the next three days fall with it.

Two Hours on Sunday is a system of six independent bases — each one prepared to live alone in the fridge and owe nothing to the others — assembled differently across the week. With the chapter no other batch-cooking book writes: exactly what to do on the Wednesday the plan breaks, so that coming back stops costing more than starting again.

What you’ll find inside:

• 33 chapters, from the minute-by-minute clock to the six bases with quantities, times and temperatures
• The eighty minutes the oven works without you — and why that alone is what makes everything fit into two hours
• The assembly table: five different meals repeating neither a sauce nor a protein
• Four recovery protocols, from fifteen minutes to one hour, for the weeks that go wrong
• Why the pork isn’t sliced until the day you eat it, and the one rule in the book whose breach has real consequences
• The part nobody writes: the lunchbox at work — the microwave that isn’t there, the smell in an open-plan office, the sauce that turns everything soggy by Thursday

This guide isn’t for you if you’re looking for fifty recipes and photographs of beautiful food. It’s for you if you’ve tried this before, gave up on the Wednesday, and want to understand why before trying again.

Included in your purchase: all 3 complete language versions (English, French, Portuguese) — with a single purchase.