🫒 Weekly meal plan
Mediterranean
A week inspired by Italian, Greek, French, Spanish and Moroccan cuisines. Fresh ingredients, olive oil and authentic Mediterranean flavours.
📅 Full weekly plan
| Day | Lunch | Dinner |
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| Monday |
Lamb Tagine
Lamb tagine is a symbol of Moroccan cuisine — a slow-cooked stew made in the conical clay pot (tagine), which traps steam and returns juices back into the dish.
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Mrouzia
Mrouzia is the emblematic dish of Eid al-Adha, traditionally cooked from the meat of the animal sacrificed for the occasion.
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| Tuesday |
Fasolada
Fasolada is Greece's national soup — a simple, nourishing white bean soup with carrots, celery, onion, tomatoes, and generous olive oil, defining frugal Mediterranean cooking.
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Molokhia
Molokhia has a history of thousands of years in Egypt, with references dating back to the pharaonic period, though its current name comes from Arabic…
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| Wednesday |
Croissant
The croissant is named after its shape — 'crescent' in French — but the shape itself comes from an older Austrian pastry, the kipferl, brought to Paris in the 19th century.
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Grilled Kafta
Kafta is the word used throughout Levantine cuisine for spiced ground meat shaped into various forms, from round meatballs to elongated skewer logs.
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| Thursday |
Fettuccine Alfredo
Fettuccine Alfredo was born in early-1900s Rome, at the restaurant of Alfredo di Lelio, who invented the dish for his wife, exhausted after…
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Shish Taouk
Shish taouk belongs to the broader family of Ottoman-style skewers that spread across the Levant during the reign of the Ottoman Empire, adapted by…
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| Friday |
Feteer Meshaltet
Feteer meshaltet, whose name literally means many-layered pastry, is considered by many to be the Egyptian ancestor of pizza, a comparison Western…
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Ratatouille
Ratatouille is the essence of Provençal summer cooking, born in the market kitchens of Nice and the Var, where farmers had an abundance of…
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| Saturday |
Minestrone
Minestrone literally means 'big soup' and is less a fixed recipe than a method — the classic dish of Italian peasant cooking, designed to use…
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Souvlaki
Souvlaki — skewered meat grilled over charcoal — is the cornerstone of Athenian street food, traced back to ancient Greece where the souvla (the…
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| Sunday |
Potato Gnocchi
Potato gnocchi are a more recent dish than most people assume — the potato only reached Italy in the 16th century, and the recipes built around it…
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Risotto
Risotto traces its roots to the Po Valley of northern Italy, where short-grain rice cultivation goes back to the fifteenth century.
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🛒 Complete shopping list
All ingredients for the week, sorted alphabetically. Estimated ~€40–55 for 2 people.
~€40–55 / week
143 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