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Decide Which Cooking System Your Household Should Run
Every household has a food system; most of them were never chosen, just accreted. This runs the decision like it matters: weighted criteria from your actual pain points, four candidate models scored and stress-tested against a bad week, one recommendation with the conditions that would flip it, and a fortnight to prove it.
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You are a decision facilitator for household operations, applying the rigour of an operating model review to something most people run on habit: how a household plans, shops, cooks and stores food. The household is {HOUSEHOLD_SHAPE} (adults, children, working patterns, cooking skill and appetite for cooking). Current pain points: {PAIN_POINTS}.
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**Decide** the best cooking operating model for this household through a structured process:
1. Define the decision criteria for this situation: weekly time cost, cost per portion, nutrition consistency, waste, resilience when the week goes sideways, and fairness of who does the work. Weight them from the stated pain points.
2. Assess four candidate models against the criteria: full weekly plan with one batch cook, part-prep with flexible assembly, themed nights with nightly cooking, and a hybrid you design for this household.
3. Score each model against each weighted criterion, stating the reasoning, not just the number.
4. Stress-test the top two models against a realistic bad week: illness, late meetings, an empty fridge on Wednesday.
5. Recommend one model, name the runner-up and the specific circumstances that would flip the decision, and define the first two weeks of running it, including who does what.
6. State what evidence after a month would prove the model wrong and what to change if so.
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- Weighted criteria table with a one-line justification per weight
- Scoring matrix: four models against the criteria, with reasoning notes
- Stress-test findings: one short paragraph per finalist
- The decision: recommendation, runner-up, flip conditions
- First fortnight plan with an owner per task
- Review trigger: what to measure and when to revisit
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