 Before the pandemic, I would be out of the house at least three times a week, so I could stop at the store multiple times a week. Now I only want to go out every eight days. This meant that I had to adjust the quantities of the vegetables in each bowl so I would use them all up after the eight days.
Some vegetables keep better, and come in larger quantities. The carrots and radishes I buy will last 16 days, or eight bowls. I divided out the weight by of the package by eight, so that means I measure out 57 grams of radishes and 42 grams of carrots for each bowl.
One problem is green beans. I can't keep them from getting soggy after 8 days, so I divide the whole package across the 4 bowls. This means 84 grams per bowl. Another problem vegetable is cauliflowers. They too need to be eaten in 8 days, so I divide the whole package into four, yielding 74 grams per bowl.
The other low-calorie vegetables work out to about 35 grams a bowl, and many are used in the morning omelets. There are some high-calorie vegetables like peas, garlic, garbanzos, and olives where I still measure out 22 grams.
The sour cream I put on the omelet is portioned out to last eight
breakfasts, plus leaving about 1/4 cup that I can mix with cream of
mushroom soup to give a poor-man's Stroganoff sauce. The 1/2-gallon of
milk means 8 cups for the 8 coffees I make each period.
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Using that spreadsheet linked to above, I guestimated my breakfasts at 400 calories. When I am doing the Analog Diet diet, trying to lose weight, I keep the lunch bowls to 1000 calories or so, which gives 500 calories a day. Then I have a coffee with a cup of whole milk at night that has another 150 calories. This means an average day has 1050 calories, give or take.
