The circle of life, presented in squares
Medal Menu is both a blog and a web application. It's designed to inspire you to cook more meals at home. Read on for how we intend for this to be accomplished.
Exemplary Menus
You'll be presented exemplary menus that highlight culture, diet, way of life, etc. Routinely, Medal Menu staff will visit with users around the world - they cook, we enter data. Every week we'll (aim to) publish both the menu and a video of the cooks cooking in their habitat. You'll learn from others (for better or *cough* for worse).
Don't Plan on Planning
Menus you find in the system can be copied ("cloned") to your own account. You don't have to start from scratch. Follow the cloned menu as it is and use it to decide next week's meals. Or, use it as a starting point and make your own changes using the editor.
Put it on Semi-social Media
You can share your menu. Not to the world, but to others in your circle. They may be interested in what you are cooking up or it's possible they've assembled a menu you'll want to emulate or make your own. Either way, a good menu doesn't have to be secret.
Why else might this be of use?
Several times a day we make decisions about what we'll eat and drink. It's not easy to choose and in fact more often than not we don't know what's on the menu.
Often we say to ourselves that we should pick better, or differently. Why don't we? There are many factors to consider but separate from those and most important is that we're creatures of habit and convenience. Our choices tend to gravitate to the "tried and true", which really are the foods and drinks that are most routine to us, the ones in the front of our memory. Medal Menu might just help you choose better, or at least differently.
Medal Menu facilitates this by connecting you, the consumer, to others' menus.
Our mission
At the end of the day (or the beginning, or the middle), Medal Menu has helped you to make quicker and better decisions about what to eat and drink, while learning about culinary life along the way.