{"id":270585,"date":"2026-06-18T07:08:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T07:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/270585\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T07:08:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T07:08:33","slug":"what-i-cooked-in-a-week-as-a-food-writer-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/270585\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Cooked in a Week as a Food Writer in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019d love to tell you that, as a staff writer at a food magazine, I have my life together enough to boast a longstanding meal planning routine<\/a>. The truth is, I\u2019ve historically been more of a scrounger than a prepper when it comes to weekday meals. I live with one roommate and am often cooking just for myself, so I\u2019m reliant on my well-stocked pantry<\/a> and the fact that I live half a block away from a grocery store. All that said, over time I have developed a grocery shopping strategy that sets me up for success.<\/p>\n

Rather than plotting out every single breakfast, lunch, and dinner, I like to stock up on enough groceries to cover most breakfasts and a couple of multi-serving dinners that can double as office lunches throughout the week. Work events, friend hangs, new store-bought snacks<\/a> I need to test out, and leftovers from tastings in the Test Kitchen tend to make up most (if not all) of the remaining meals. Read on for everything I added to my grocery cart last week, plus how I turned it into a week of meals.<\/p>\n

Sunday<\/p>\n

For this week\u2019s Sunday shop, I bought ingredients to make Shilpa Uskokovic\u2019s Basil Chicken Stir-Fry<\/a> and Andy Baraghani\u2019s Honey-Chipotle Shrimp Tacos<\/a>, plus some Greek yogurt<\/a> (Fage\u2019s 2% is my favorite).<\/p>\n

I was meeting friends for tacos at Greenpoint\u2019s El Chato Sunday night, so there was no need to cook\u2014but in the name of setting myself up for a calm entry into the week, I prepped three servings of protein overnight oats: Just combine \u00bd cup oats, \u00bd cup almond milk, a spoonful of Greek yogurt, \u00bd scoop protein powder<\/a>, and a pinch of salt in each container. I\u2019ve been working my way through a bag of Be Amazing\u2019s Brown Sugar Oatmeal<\/a> vegan protein, which tastes like an oatmeal cookie.<\/p>\n

\"Be<\/a><\/p>\n

Be Amazing Vegan Protein Powder<\/p>\n

Monday<\/p>\n

Mondays always feel hectic, so I was glad to have prepped a hearty breakfast the day before. I grabbed a jar of my overnight oats from the fridge and topped it with a handful of frozen Maine blueberries<\/a> before tossing it in my bag and heading to the office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019d love to tell you that, as a staff writer at a food magazine, I have my life…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9868,9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-270585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-cooking","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}