If you’re anything like us, food is the core of our lives. Our schedule, conversations, and memories revolve around it. We love to eat and we make sure we have the time and the tools we need to thoroughly enjoy it.
Week after week we found that going out to eat was consuming our budget. We would come home from work very hungry and not in the mood to cook and would resort to going out. When we would stay home we were indecisive on what to make and often lacked the ingredients to complete something that was healthy, tasty and out of the ordinary. We were getting bored, yet were overwhelmed with the prospect of meal prepping.
The first step was to analyze our current approach to mealtimes and identify pain points. These included the time it took to plan and a space that both of us could access to see what was on the schedule. We made a list of the most important steps to planning our meals for the week. With those steps in place we created a shared Airtable base and tables that corresponded to these new steps. The final design included 4 tables that are linked within each other to help plan the schedule quickly each week.
The solution came in the form of a single shared Airtable base designed with linked tables for each of the tasks at hand: