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4-Week Meal Rotation

28 recipes from the Efficiency Is Everything Cookbook. Click any meal for the full recipe.

Estimated weekly cost (2 people): ~$24

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📚 The Books

The complete Efficiency Is Everything book collection — cooking, nutrition, and budget eating.

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EIE — In Cooking
The Cookbook V1.52 · 66 pages

Recipes that have you eating for $24 a week. Eight recipes that take two active minutes and make enough food for a week. Work-instruction-style directions anyone can follow.

  • ▸ 4-week meal rotation (28 recipes)
  • ▸ Slow cooker meals, stovetop, oven
  • ▸ Budget grocery lists sorted by aisle
  • ▸ Cooking cheat codes & efficiency tips
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EIE — $1.59 Perfect Eating
In Economic Crisis Cookbook · V0.96

The extreme budget edition. Eat perfectly balanced nutrition for $1.59/day. Calorie-per-dollar optimized meal plans built from the EIE nutrition database.

  • ▸ $1.50/day complete meal plans
  • ▸ Potato soup, crepes, pierogis, homemade noodles
  • ▸ Calorie & nutrition per dollar rankings
  • ▸ Emergency budget survival guide
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EIE — Speed Cooking
Experimental Alpha · V0.98 · 41 pages

Save 20–120 minutes per day by reducing active cooking to 2 minutes. Target: 1000 calories per minute of active prep. Industrial engineering meets the kitchen.

  • ▸ 1-minute chicken, noodles, rice, vegetables
  • ▸ Calories-per-minute rankings for recipes
  • ▸ Speed lifestyle: batch cooking, delivery hacks
  • ▸ "Approaching Infinity" cal/min zero-prep foods
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About the Books

Written by Michael Kirk, these books apply Industrial Engineering principles to everyday cooking and eating. The philosophy: food should be delicious, fast, cheap, and nutritious — and with the right system, it can be all four. Every recipe is battle-tested on a real family budget.