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These are the recipes for Day 4 (Wednesday, May 2) of Offbeat Home's Cooking Challenge, wherein we see if Offbeat Bride's Managing Editor Megan, a complete non-cook who lives off of frozen pizza and cereal, can go an entire week of preparing her own meals.

Each day, Cat Rocketship (who SWEARS you can afford better food!) will be sharing the recipes that Megan will be preparing — feel free to play along at home! If Megan, a pizza-loving non-cooking cereal-for-dinner web dork can feed herself healthy, home-cooked meals for a week — YOU CAN TOO.

We've reached Day 3 of the Offbeat Home Food Challenge, but will Megan survive? Will Cat continue her torturous pace of cooking challenges? Will Ariel continue to hold up during a week of procedure-less posts?!

This post won't answer any of these questions, but it WILL give you the recipes for Day 3. Cook along IF YOU DARE.

On Day 2 of cooking challenge, I plan to load Megan up on cheese, strawberries, and dark chocolate. It's good-for-you food, but only if you can control yourself! I'm not great at limiting myself when presented with tasties.

Today is Day 1 of Offbeat Home's Cooking Challenge, wherein we see if Offbeat Bride's Managing Editor Megan, a complete non-cook who lives off of frozen pizza and cereal, can go an entire week of preparing her own meals.

Hi. I'm Megan, the Empire's Associate Publisher and I'm a HORRIBLE eater. I can't cook, I can't even shop for food. But Ariel and Cat are going to shake up my pre-packaged meal life with their challenge. Here's the deal…

Here I am, yet again, promising myself that I will not buy store bought convenient alternatives. I'm hoping it sticks this time. I feel like this recipe is too easy not to keep that promise, plus, knowing exactly what's in my food always comforts me.

Yesterday, we talked about my thought strategies and meal planning. Today, it’s all about the listing.

Like I said, I list out all the foods that we have that I want to use up.
Then, I list out all the recipes I’ve seen that I want to make.
Then, I list the ingredients I need to get at the store. But there's more to it than that.

I plan my meals every week.
It saves me time and money.
It helps me visualize when I'll need extra help, or when to scale back or when to pull out the fancy forks (Just kidding, I don't have any fancy forks. Do you?)
It keeps me from wasting food.
It takes less than 15 minutes a week.
So, what are you having for supper tomorrow?