Today I used all my energy making lasagna. This involves shredding eggplant, sauteing mushrooms and onions, browning meat, cooking pasta, mixing seasoning into cheese, cooking sauce with meat, and assembling it all. Then it waits in the frig for a while. Then I bake it, and eat it.Then it cools, and gets cut into portions, and frozen for other dinners.
It isn't really a days' worth of work, but I have a good book to fill in the between time. My granddaughter gave it to me. It's The Atlantis Complex, an Artemis Fowl story by Eoin Colfer. I really enjoy it. Read the other Artemis Fowl stories first, it's a series, written for children.