Devin Okonkwo
Summary
AIDevin is a freelance sound editor who plans weekday dinners for a household of four and shops twice a week (3:08).
Devin finds midweek planning hardest because two family members eat differently and the grocery budget shifts week to week, so lists get rewritten in a notes app the night before (3:08). They asked for a shared list any household member could add to without a login (3:08). Matching delivery windows to rehearsal nights is a second worry, as is the recipe scaling control being buried three screens deep (6:27). Devin pays for the full order and reconciles shares later, which they described as the slowest part of the week (6:27).
Recording March 4th, 2026. Participant: Devin, 37, freelance sound editor in Leeds. The goal is to understand how weekday dinner planning breaks down and how households handle differing diets. Hi Devin — instead of a single recipe, walk me through a full week of planning. Sure, that's my job in the house. Last week I sat down Sunday evening with the delivery app open and a notes file, and I got about four dinners in before I gave up. Why did you stop at four? Because Thursday is a rehearsal night and I never know what time I'm home, so I leave it blank and we end up ordering. One person in the house eats no dairy, my partner is training and wants the protein counted, and I'm trying to keep the weekly shop under £85. So I write the list, then rewrite it once someone reads it. I'd rather send one link everybody can add to, instead of being the person holding the notes file.
Once the order is in, what worries you most? The timing against the evening. I don't want the delivery landing in the middle of a session, but I also don't want everyone waiting around at nine. And the control for scaling a recipe to four portions is buried — I usually give up and just double things in my head. How do you handle paying? I put the whole shop on my card and work out the shares afterwards, which is honestly the slowest half hour of my week. Calculating the split and then chasing three separate transfers. Alright, thank you — that's the part I was hoping to hear about.