Marisa Draper

Marisa Draper didn't get into meal planning because she loves cooking. She got into it because she was tired of the 5:30 p.m. panic, two little kids melting down and nothing thawed. As a quality tech, systems are how her brain works, so she treated dinner like a process that was failing and needed root-cause analysis. Turned out the problem wasn't cooking. It was deciding, every night, at the worst time of day. She built a template, made a list she could hand off for a grocery run, and got her evenings back. She's been running this system for about two years. It's not fancy, and that's the point.