🫒 Weekly meal plan

Mediterranean

A week inspired by Italian, Greek, French, Spanish and Moroccan cuisines. Fresh ingredients, olive oil and authentic Mediterranean flavours.

2 people 7 days ~€40–55 / week 143 ingredients

📅 Full weekly plan

Day Lunch Dinner
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.
Mrouzia Mrouzia is the emblematic dish of Eid al-Adha, traditionally cooked from the meat of the animal sacrificed for the occasion.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Souvlaki Souvlaki — skewered meat grilled over charcoal — is the cornerstone of Athenian street food, traced back to ancient Greece where the souvla (the…
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…
Risotto Risotto traces its roots to the Po Valley of northern Italy, where short-grain rice cultivation goes back to the fifteenth century.

🛒 Complete shopping list

143 ingredients

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