🥟 Weekly meal plan
Eastern European Comfort Food
Stews, soups and traditional dishes from Romania, Georgia, Hungary and Poland. Soul food, authentic and nourishing.
📅 Full weekly plan
| Day | Lunch | Dinner |
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| Monday |
Lobio
Lobio — the Georgian word for bean — is one of Georgia's oldest and most widely prepared dishes.
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Chicken Kiev
Chicken Kiev is a dish of exceptional technical refinement: a deboned chicken breast pounded thin around a cylinder of cold butter mixed with garlic…
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| Tuesday |
Pierogi
Pierogi are one of the oldest preparations in Polish cooking, documented in culinary records from the thirteenth century.
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Cepelinai
Cepelinai — named after Count Zeppelin's airship for their oval shape — are Lithuania's national dish.
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| Wednesday |
Solyanka
Solyanka is Russia's festive soup — a thick and tangy broth with beef, smoked sausages, ham, pickled cucumbers, olives, capers, and tomatoes, all…
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Halászlé
Halászlé, or fisherman's soup, is one of the oldest dishes in Hungarian cuisine, rooted in the fishing communities that worked along the Danube and Tisza rivers.
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| Thursday |
Chakhokhbili
Chakhokhbili is a Georgian braised chicken stew whose name traces back to the word for pheasant — khokhobi — reflecting an era when the dish was made with wild game.
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Kharcho
Kharcho comes from Samegrelo, a region in western Georgia known for intensely spiced, sour cooking.
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| Friday |
Verivorst
Verivorst is Estonia's national blood sausage — a pork intestine casing filled with pig's blood, barley, onion, and pork fat, boiled and then pan-fried before serving.
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Töltött Káposzta
Töltött káposzta, or Hungarian stuffed cabbage, is a close relative of Romanian sarmale, but with a strong identity of its own, marked by the…
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| Saturday |
Chicken Paprikash
Csirkepaprikás — chicken paprikash — is the emblem of Hungarian cuisine: chicken pieces braised slowly in a sauce of onion and sweet Hungarian…
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Satsivi
The name satsivi comes from the Georgian word for "cold" — a clear signal about how it's served, unlike almost any other Georgian main course, which…
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| Sunday |
Beans with Sausages
Fasole cu cârnați is the winter dish of the Romanian household — white beans slow-cooked together with smoked pork sausages, onion, carrots, tomato…
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Mtsvadi
In Georgia, mtsvadi is considered the original form of skewered grilled meat, with roots that may well predate the Russian term "shashlik," which…
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🛒 Complete shopping list
All ingredients for the week, sorted alphabetically. Estimated ~€33–45 for 2 people.
~€33–45 / week
170 ingredients
- Vegetables & herbs
- Meat & fish
- Dairy & eggs
- Dry goods
- Sauces & oils
- Bakery
- Miscellaneous
- Pantry staples
Why plan meals in advance?
- Reduce food waste by up to 30%
- Save time and money — one shopping trip
- Eat healthier
- Eliminate the daily "what should I cook?" stress