The two-week dinner rotation: stop deciding what's for dinner

Decision fatigue, not cooking skill, is why weeknight dinners collapse into takeaway. The fix is boring on purpose: a pool of 10–14 meals your family already likes, rotated so nothing repeats within two weeks.

Building the pool

• Start with the last 10 dinners everyone actually ate — not aspirational recipes.
• Tag them by effort: a couple of 15-minute meals for the worst weeknights.
• Add one new recipe a month at most; retire anything that gets groans twice.

Keeping it fresh without thinking

The rotation only works if you don't have to remember what you cooked lately. A planner that can fill an empty week from your recipe box — automatically preferring meals you haven't planned in the last two weeks — turns the rotation into one click, and the grocery list generates itself from there.