Sweet potatoes and fried eggs in fifteen minutes

Some days I plan meals carefully. Today I did not. We pulled sweet potatoes110 kcal from the bin because that is what we had, cracked eggs72 kcal into a pan, and cooked them in olive oil119 kcal.

Fifteen minutes from start to plate. No recipe card and no scale. I still notice the urge to treat that like an accomplishment, which probably says something about how I used to approach food. There was a time when cooking without measuring would have felt like skipping steps. Tonight it was just dinner.

I have been thinking about how much planning I bring to meals. Some days the plan helps. Other days it becomes one more obstacle. Today was the second kind of day. We skipped the plan and still made dinner.

Nothing about the plate was impressive. We sat down to food we had made ourselves in less time than it takes to talk yourself out of cooking. Afterward I was glad we had fed ourselves without turning dinner into a project.

I used to believe feeding myself well had to wait for the right moment, and that moment rarely arrived. Tonight was not perfect. We had sweet potatoes, eggs, olive oil, and fifteen minutes. Consistent ordinary meals matter more for weight gain than special ones. This plate was ordinary, and we ate it.