The mmmiso blog
Waste nothing, taste everything.
Meal planning, food waste, and getting dinner on the table without another decision to make.
Social Recipes
How to screenshot a recipe so it actually imports cleanly
Most social media recipes live in the caption or a pinned comment, not the video. A few habits stop a rushed screenshot cutting off the line you needed.
10 November 2026Switching Apps
Switching recipe apps without losing years of saved recipes
Moving looks like more work than putting up with the annoyance. It's smaller than it looks, because many saved recipes never get cooked.
9 November 2026Recipe Collections
How many recipes does anyone actually need?
A bigger recipe collection is usually treated as the goal. Past a certain point, it starts working against you.
6 November 2026Cooking From Your Phone
The recipe is open on your phone. Your hands are covered in flour.
Cooking from a phone comes with one recurring annoyance nobody really designed for: the screen locks while your hands are busy.
4 November 2026Food Memories
Some recipes aren't about the food
A soup that means a specific person, a specific kitchen. Why some recipes matter far beyond their ingredient list, and how to keep them.
2 November 2026Holiday Food
Why December's food shop always costs more than you planned
The centrepiece meal gets planned and budgeted. Everything around it usually doesn't, and that's where the extra cost comes from.
30 October 2026Beyond Dinner
Why meal planning usually means dinner planning (and what gets missed)
Ask someone if they meal plan and the answer is almost always about dinner. Breakfast and lunch run on habit, and it costs more than it looks.
28 October 2026Leftovers
Leftovers don't have to mean eating the same thing twice
Most people don't mind using up leftovers. They mind eating the same meal twice in a row. Here's how to give them a second life.
26 October 2026Shopping Lists
The shopping list that fights your supermarket's layout
A list built straight from recipes comes out in an arbitrary order, which means backtracking across the shop. Here's why it matters and what helps.
23 October 2026Learning to Cook
Teaching yourself to cook from a cookbook as an adult
Most cooking instruction is pitched at children or at people who already know the basics. Here's what builds confidence for an adult starting from scratch.
21 October 2026Shift Work
Meal planning when your week doesn't look the same twice
Most meal planning advice assumes a predictable week. Here's what helps when your hours rotate, shift or change every few days.
19 October 2026Household Decisions
"I don't know, what do you want?" is a bigger source of friction than it sounds
A small, repeated exchange — and neither person wants to be the one deciding, though someone has to, every single day.
16 October 2026Saving Habits
Why saving a recipe feels like progress (even when it isn't)
Hitting save feels like having done something useful, but nothing has been cooked yet.
14 October 2026Healthy Cooking
You don't need a diet app to cook with your goals in mind
There's a middle ground between full tracking and no structure at all, and it runs on defaults rather than willpower.
12 October 2026Food Waste
The jar of gochujang you bought for one recipe and never opened again
Why specialty ingredients get stranded after a single use, and how to close the loop.
9 October 2026Shopping Lists
Why your shopping list says "200g of onion" twice
Half an onion, 100g diced, one medium — three recipes, three units, three separate lines.
7 October 2026Cooking for One
Meal planning isn't just a family problem
"Just halve the recipe" skips the real reasons solo cooking is harder to plan for.
5 October 2026Family Cooking
Cooking one dinner when everyone wants something different
Different diets, allergies, phases and fussiness — why memory breaks down, and what actually helps.
2 October 2026Fast Dinners
The 20-minute dinner that isn't boring
The constraint is speed, not ambition — and those turn out to be more separable than the "quick dinner" genre suggests.
30 September 2026Cooking Confidence
Your dinner doesn't need to look like the photo
Lit carefully, styled by a professional — the recipe photo was never a fair comparison for a normal kitchen at 6pm.
28 September 2026Household Budgeting
What a week of takeaway actually costs, compared to cooking it
The problem isn't any single order — it's how often "nobody had the energy" ends up being the deciding factor.
25 September 2026Weekly Routine
The Sunday habit that actually makes the week easier
Forget the spotless kitchen and matching containers — the useful version needs about fifteen minutes, nothing else.
24 September 2026Family Cooking
Getting kids involved in dinner without adding an hour to cooking it
Most recipes weren't built with a second, smaller pair of hands in mind — here's what actually makes one work.
21 September 2026App Abandonment
Why meal planning apps get deleted after two weeks
A burst of enthusiasm, a slow drift back to the old way — usually a sign the app added a step instead of removing one.
18 September 2026Recipe Notes
Why the same recipe never quite turns out the same way twice
More chilli last time? Longer on the simmer? Without a record, the good version becomes a memory you're trying to recreate.
17 September 2026Grocery Shopping
Online shop or walk the aisles? The list matters more than the method
Substitutions, delivery windows, the sensory check of picking your own produce — the debate misses the bigger factor entirely.
14 September 2026Hosting
You don't need a new recipe to host people
The recipe you've made ten times is the safer bet for guests, not the boring one.
11 September 2026Trusted Sources
The best recipe recommendations come from people you actually trust
A friend's "you have to try this" beats an algorithm's guess — but it's gone within a week unless someone writes it down.
9 September 2026Recipe Preservation
The recipe card in the drawer isn't getting any younger
A fading handwritten card that exists in exactly one place — why that's a different kind of risk, and how little it takes to fix.
7 September 2026Grocery Spending
The real reason your grocery bill keeps creeping up (and it's not inflation)
Duplicate staples, impulse adds, round-number packs — the controllable half of a rising grocery bill that has nothing to do with prices.
5 September 2026New Parents
The first six months: what actually gets cooked when you have a newborn
One-handed, interrupted at any point, reheated without much care — the honest version of "dinner" in the newborn period.
3 September 2026Batch Cooking
The freezer stash system that actually works (because most don't)
A stack of labelled containers on Sunday, mystery frost-bitten tubs a few weeks later — the one piece most batch cooking systems skip.
31 August 2026Meal Planning
How much time does meal planning actually save? We did the (entirely subjective) maths
"Saves you time" gets said so often it stops meaning anything. Here's where the time actually comes from, and roughly how much it adds up to.
28 August 2026Recipe Organisation
How to get your entire recipe collection into one place in an afternoon
Screenshots, cookbooks, forwarded links, social saves — a realistic plan for getting it all into one place without losing a weekend to it.
26 August 2026AI vs. Organising
AI can write you a new recipe. It can't tell you what your family will actually eat.
A different tool for a different job — the real gap between generating something new and organising what you already know works.
24 August 2026Recipe Preservation
Why your saved recipes keep disappearing (and how to actually keep them)
A 404, a deleted post, a vanished account — why saving a link isn't the same as saving a recipe, and what actually fixes it.
21 August 2026Seasonal Eating
Eating what's actually in season without becoming a full-time farmer's market person
The real case for seasonal eating is just cheaper, better-tasting produce — not a proper relationship with a market stall holder.
19 August 2026Recipe Cleanup
Why you have three versions of the same chicken recipe (and what to do about it)
Saved in the moment, forgotten by the time the next near-identical one shows up — here's why duplicates pile up, and what actually stops it.
18 August 2026App Pricing
What you're actually paying for with a recipe app subscription (and what you're not)
Recipe app pricing pages all look near-identical. Here's what the fee actually buys, and what a good free tier should really offer.
14 August 2026Cookbook Challenge
The "cook the book" challenge: how to finally get through your cookbook shelf
Pick a cookbook and cook your way through it — a simple, structured way to finally use what's on your shelf.
12 August 2026Household Sharing
Your family's recipes live in five different phones. Here's how to fix that.
Screenshots on one phone, WhatsApp links on another, a laminated card in a drawer — here's how to bring it all into one shared place.
10 August 2026Cookbook Guilt
You own 40 cookbooks and still cook the same 5 recipes. Here's why.
Not the guilt of not cooking — the guilt of not cooking enough of what you already own.
7 August 2026Food Waste
The hidden cost of not meal planning: waste, duplicate buys, and last-minute takeaway
A wilted bag of spinach, a second jar of cumin, a last-minute order in — none of it feels like much, until it adds up.
5 August 2026Recipe Import
Your recipes are trapped in 6 different apps. Here's how to get them back.
Screenshots, saved Reels, browser tabs, a text from a friend — here's why your recipes end up scattered, and what actually fixes it.
3 August 2026Meal Kit Alternative
You don't need a £60/week meal box — you need 10 minutes and the recipes you already love
Thinking about cancelling HelloFresh or Gousto? Here's the meal kit alternative that doesn't ask you to gamble on a stranger's recipe every week.
30 July 2026