You cook whatever you want on COOK90, and that’s key—COOK90 is not a diet, and it definitely isn’t a cleanse. It’s a no-judgment, no-shade month of cooking everything you hunger for: tofu curry, spicy pork chops, skillet cookies, whatever.
It’s designed this way for a couple of reasons. The first is that restrictions are unnecessary, because daily cooking is intrinsically a physically, mentally, and financially healthy act. Secondly, COOK90 is a crash course on how to fit daily cooking into your life; you should learn with the foods that make sense for you, and recipes that you actually want to cook.
So the meal plans that follow are not dictatorial. More than anything, they’re a visual aid. I want you to see what a full week—a full four weeks, actually!—of daily cooking looks like. I want you to see the way one meal connects to another, to notice where meal prep gets tucked in here and there.
Let these meal plans inspire you when you’re filling out your own meal plan grids. Or hey, go ahead and follow the plan exactly for a few days, or a week, or the whole month. Stick to it, stray from it, add to it, subtract from it—it’s all kosher. If you’re meal planning at all, you’re doing COOK90 right.