In my current job I have to interact with a lot of young and, usually, single people. When the topic of my extremist activism in favor of the container comes up, they usually admit that it is a good idea but that they are bored with eating “the same thing every day.”

And I say, if you make some potatoes one day fried, another day in the oven, the next day mashed, one night in a salad (as I propose this week) and another day in the “bakery” style, are you eating “all of them?” the days the same”? I do not think so!

Furthermore, having the Internet, YouTube, ChatGPT, the Comer section of La Vanguardia and even grandma’s WhatsApp at hand, it seems to me that what my young colleagues have is not a fear of monotony, but rather laziness in a chemically pure state.

I understand that it is not easy after a day of work to start thinking about what you are going to eat the next day, and that the temptation to eat a mediocre menu or a sandwich at the corner bar is very great, but maybe it is time to try something new.

And I would like nothing more than for you to try those new combinations with the menu that I propose every seven days. This week, as always, three recipes with legumes, two with fish, the

Baked preparations

Turn the oven on to 180°C and cook all the following foods:

Preparations with sofrito

Prepare a sauce with three onions, two cloves of garlic, a stalk of celery and a stalk of leek. When everything is well poached and the onion is translucent and smiling, divide the sauce into three parts. This will be the base for the asparagus cream, cauliflower cream and chickpea curry.

Fire preparations

Raw preparations