Christmas and New Year, already made.
Cook the Wellington, the Boxing Day bubble and squeak and the New Year’s Eve soufflés on a weekend or two, freeze them, and spend the holidays at the table.
Dinner’s already made.
Cook once on a Sunday and waste less food. Nomstash plans the cook day, gives the shop a realistic cost and labels every container.
One cook day.
A freezer full of dinners.
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Saturday, 9.30am. One shop, with an estimated cost.
Nomstash turns the plan into one shopping list, so you know roughly what the cook day costs before you leave the house.
Cook day shop estimated - Beef mince, 5% fat, 1kg£6.50
- Red lentils, 1kg£1.85
- Chicken thighs, boneless, 1kg£5.25
- Chopped tomatoes, 6 × 400g£2.82
- Kidney beans, 3 × 400g£1.65
- Onions, carrots, garlic, ginger£3.40
- Coconut milk, yoghurt, spices£4.10
Total£25.57
24 portions · £1.07 a portion
Example figures. Yours come from your own plan, estimated at typical UK supermarket prices. How we estimate prices
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Sunday, midday. Three pots on.
Every recipe is scaled to the portions you planned, so you cook exactly enough to fill the containers, with no leftovers cluttering the fridge.
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Sunday, 4.30pm. Every container gets a label.
Print a label at home with the dish, the day it was made, who it feeds and a code you can scan. No printer? Write the code on the lid with a pen. Either way, you can tell the chilli from the bolognese without opening the drawer.
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Sunday, 5.15pm. 24 portions are in the freezer.
Nomstash keeps count of every container and which is oldest, so you know what’s in there without standing at the open door.
Then, every evening, it tells you what’s next.
- 5.30pm
Tonight’s lentil bolognese has been in the fridge since last night, so only the pasta needs cooking.
- 9pm
Before bed, move Wednesday’s tikka masala to the fridge, and take the oldest container.
- Forgot?
Nomstash shows you what you can have ready in 20 minutes instead.
Most of a month’s dinners from two cook days.
One cook day is on the Sunday before the month starts and the second is two weeks in. 19 of the 28 dinners come out of the freezer. The rest are nights you want to cook, and a Friday takeaway.
- From the freezer
- Cooked on the night
- Cook day
- Mon Lentil bolognese
- Tue Tikka masala
- Wed Chilli con carne
- Thu Omelettes
- Fri Lentil bolognese
- Sat Pizza, sauce from the freezer
- Sun Roast chicken
- Mon Tikka masala
- Tue Chilli con carne
- Wed Carbonara, made on the night
- Thu Lentil bolognese
- Fri Takeaway
- Sat Tikka masala
- Sun Cook day: katsu and lasagne
- Mon Katsu curry
- Tue Chilli con carne
- Wed Lasagne
- Thu Stir fry
- Fri Katsu curry
- Sat Lentil bolognese
- Sun Roast pork
- Mon Lasagne
- Tue Tikka masala
- Wed Katsu curry
- Thu Jacket potatoes
- Fri Chilli con carne
- Sat Lasagne
- Sun Sunday roast
What’s in our freezer.
We built Nomstash for our own kitchen. On Tue 13 Oct it counted 86 containers: 92 adult portions and 31 child ones. The pulled beef has been in longest, so it’s top of next week’s plan.
- Tikka masala sauce 14 adult oldest 237 days
- Chickpea curry 13 child oldest 17 days
- Beef bolognese 9 child oldest 4 days
- Chilli con carne 8 child oldest 171 days
- Cottage pie, vegetarian 8 adult oldest 34 days
- Spicy roasted parsnip soup 8 adult oldest 20 days
- BBQ pulled beef 6 adult Eat first · 304 days
and 13 more
24 dinners to build a cook day from.
Bolognese Tikka masala Cottage pie Chilli Lasagne Katsu curry Korma Fish pie Shepherd’s pie Moussaka Mac and cheese Fajitas Burrito bowl Chow mein Stir fry Wellington Arancini Goujons Fried chicken Burger Pizza Quesadilla Jacket potato Roast dinner
Soup, pie, tart, curry and pasta are there too, with a choice of what goes in, along with 12 dishes for breakfasts, lunches, bakes, puddings and weaning. Carbonara is made on the night, because eggs and cream don’t freeze.
Plan your first cook day.
Pick your dishes and Nomstash plans the rest. It’s in beta, and founding access is free.