“It sounds cliché, but the pandemic-as awful as it has been-also gave me an opportunity. “I put a lot of work into this project, and I’m thinking, what am I going to do here? Do I throw in the towel, or do I keep going?” Shahrik says. It was shown at the 2021 Official Latino Film and Arts Festival, which he attended with his mother. Renaissance man: Diran Shahrik wrote the short film Picking Daisies, about a man struggling with a moral choice. “You meet with your advisor and they have to approve your research for the problem.”īut just a month after starting work on his app-during his first semester on campus as a CGS student-the pandemic hit. “The beauty of the BUild Lab is that they force you to research the problem, and you can’t skip steps,” he says. Shahrik pitched his idea, and received a $1,000 grant to get started. Sierra pointed him towards BUild Lab’s Innovation Pathway, a program that helps students bring their start-ups to reality. “It then formulates everything into a grocery list, as well as a meal plan based on those preferences, so your money isn’t wasted.”Įven before he arrived at BU-shortly after he was accepted to the College of General Studies-Shahrik met with former Student Government president Oliver Pour (CGS’20, COM’22) and later with Jeff Sierra, a CGS academic advisor, to discuss his idea and to find out who at BU might be able to help. “Savor takes certain things into consideration, like your dietary preferences, your family size, your weekly budget,” Shahrik says. It would outline the cost of each recipe ingredient and then recommend other recipes with the same ingredients, helping home chefs use up everything they purchased and leading to less waste. When he entered BU in January 2020, Shahrik (CGS’21, Questrom’23) had the inkling of an idea for a meal planning app that could avoid his aunt’s conundrum.
That’s $166 billion a year of food waste, resulting in an additional 20 percent of greenhouse gases. It’s estimated that worldwide, up to 40 percent of all food is thrown away. But it really bothered him, for both environmental and economic reasons, that she tossed half the container of coconut flakes away when she was done. If you're new to meal planning and would like some tips to get started, you can find them here at Budget Meal Planning Basics.Growing up, Diran Shahrik loved his aunt’s coconut cakes. So, the meal plans below will be for breakfast, snack, and dinner, daily for the whole month! All you have to do is print, add in your sides and veggies, and shop!ĬLICK HERE to View your Monthly Meal Plan for November 2016! For previous monthly meal plans, go to the Meal Planning ArchivesĪnd be sure to check my Recipe Archives (there's even a section just for side dishes!) for more meal planning inspiration! If we don't have leftovers (which is rare), we usually just scrounge up a sandwich. We eat leftovers for lunch daily because I absolutely hate wasting food. I usually buy produce from our grocer every week based on the weekly sales, and it’ll be easier on the ol’ wallet if you do the same. We try to eat as much fresh fruit and veggies as possible and at every meal.
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On Sundays, we get together with family after church, and I don’t have to cook! Yippee! So it’s a free day from lunch and snack, and we usually just have snacks, pizza, or leftovers for dinner so I get a day off from the kitchen. Let me give you a rundown on how meals usually work for our family:
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