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Meal Prep, Managed: A Tech Manager's System to Eliminate the 6 PM Panic, Save Time, and Eat Well All Week
Are you tired of the stressful 6 PM panic, staring into a chaotic fridge and defaulting to the same, uninspired meals every night? As a busy professional, you manage complex projects at work, yet your weeknight dinners often feel like a project in crisis. What if you could apply the same skills that lead to success in the tech world to your own kitchen?
In Meal Prep, Managed, Software Engineering Manager Seyda Bora Benzer shows you how to stop treating your meals like a daily chore and start managing them like a successful project. This isn't just a collection of recipes; it's a proven system that applies the powerful principles of project management and software design to the art of meal prep.
By learning to think like an engineer in the kitchen, you'll discover a clear, logical, and surprisingly fun way to eliminate stress, save time, and eat delicious, healthy food all week long.
Inside, you will
The Scoping How to define your weekly goals and create a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) to guarantee success from day one.System Architectures for Your Discover whether you're a Monolith (batch cooking), MicroServices (ingredient prep), or a flexible Hybrid cook.The Sunday Sprint : The 2 hour prep session blueprint that sets you up for an entire week of calm, delicious weeknights.Deployment & Smart, efficient strategies for storing your prepped meals to maximise freshness and eliminate food waste, including the Eat This First shelf system.The Retrospective : How to make small, weekly improvements that turn this system into an effortless, lifelong habit.And to ensure you can start immediately, this book also includes a complete Project Blueprint Library. You'll get five full weeks of unique meal plans, each with a delicious 5 day menu, a detailed Sunday Prep task list, and a categorised shopping list to take all the guesswork out of your first month.
Stop letting your weeknights be a source of chaos. It's time to debug your dinner routine and deploy a better system.
In Meal Prep, Managed, Software Engineering Manager Seyda Bora Benzer shows you how to stop treating your meals like a daily chore and start managing them like a successful project. This isn't just a collection of recipes; it's a proven system that applies the powerful principles of project management and software design to the art of meal prep.
By learning to think like an engineer in the kitchen, you'll discover a clear, logical, and surprisingly fun way to eliminate stress, save time, and eat delicious, healthy food all week long.
Inside, you will
The Scoping How to define your weekly goals and create a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) to guarantee success from day one.System Architectures for Your Discover whether you're a Monolith (batch cooking), MicroServices (ingredient prep), or a flexible Hybrid cook.The Sunday Sprint : The 2 hour prep session blueprint that sets you up for an entire week of calm, delicious weeknights.Deployment & Smart, efficient strategies for storing your prepped meals to maximise freshness and eliminate food waste, including the Eat This First shelf system.The Retrospective : How to make small, weekly improvements that turn this system into an effortless, lifelong habit.And to ensure you can start immediately, this book also includes a complete Project Blueprint Library. You'll get five full weeks of unique meal plans, each with a delicious 5 day menu, a detailed Sunday Prep task list, and a categorised shopping list to take all the guesswork out of your first month.
Stop letting your weeknights be a source of chaos. It's time to debug your dinner routine and deploy a better system.
73 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 6, 2025
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October 22, 2025
This book gives you everything you need to start or improve your meal prep routine. It’s a quick, practical read (you can finish it in just a couple of hours) and it’s packed with useful templates and tips. What I especially appreciated was how adaptable it is: the system works for any lifestyle or dietary preference. The author gives you the tools to make meal prep work for you, not the other way around.
As a bonus, the book uses fun and clever metaphors from the tech world. If you’re a software professional, you’ll enjoy the relatability to your daily work. And if you’re not a techie, you’ll still gain insight into how tech folks think (all through relatable meal prep analogies)
As a bonus, the book uses fun and clever metaphors from the tech world. If you’re a software professional, you’ll enjoy the relatability to your daily work. And if you’re not a techie, you’ll still gain insight into how tech folks think (all through relatable meal prep analogies)
January 1, 2026
So Funny
All the steps needed to prepare for the week, wrapped up in Software Development jargon! The results are fabulous and fun. Well done!
All the steps needed to prepare for the week, wrapped up in Software Development jargon! The results are fabulous and fun. Well done!
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