🌱 Weekly meal plan
Vegetarian – Colourful & Healthy
A meat-free week rich in plant proteins, fresh vegetables and global flavours. Perfect for reducing meat consumption.
📅 Full weekly plan
| Day | Lunch | Dinner |
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| Monday |
Polenta with Cheese & Sour Cream
Mămăligă is the unwritten bread of Romanian cooking — a simple cornmeal porridge that fed the countryside from one end of the country to the other for centuries.
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Moin Moin
Moin moin, sometimes spelled moimoi, is considered one of the oldest traditional Nigerian dishes, a method of transforming black-eyed peas — an…
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| Tuesday |
Chakchouka
Chakchouka is an iconic dish of North African cuisine, originating in Tunisia, where eggs poached in a spiced tomato and pepper sauce became the symbol of communal breakfast.
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Jollof Rice
Jollof rice is West Africa's most widely eaten and passionately contested dish — a tomato-based one-pot rice cooked in a thick base of blended…
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| Wednesday |
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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Semmelknödel
Semmelknödel arose from the practical need not to waste bread — a central concern in rural Austrian cooking, where stale rolls were too precious to throw away.
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| Thursday |
Tabbouleh
Tabbouleh comes from the mountain villages of Lebanon and Syria, where flat-leaf parsley grows in every kitchen garden.
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Pierogi
Pierogi are one of the oldest preparations in Polish cooking, documented in culinary records from the thirteenth century.
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| Friday |
Koshari
Koshari is Egypt's national street food, sold from carts and storefronts across Cairo and Alexandria.
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Lentil Soup
Red lentil soup is one of the oldest dishes in the world — lentils were a staple across the Levant and Mesopotamia thousands of years before the common era.
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| Saturday |
Sarson da Saag
Sarson da saag is considered the signature dish of the Punjab region, both on the Pakistani and Indian sides, a recipe intrinsically tied to the…
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Fondue
Fondue in its modern form owes much to deliberate promotion: the Swiss Cheese Union championed it internationally from the 1930s onward to boost cheese exports.
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| Sunday |
Gado-Gado
Gado-gado is an Indonesian salad of boiled and blanched vegetables, fried tofu and tempeh, and hard-boiled egg, brought together by a thick peanut sauce poured warm at the table.
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Käsespätzle
Spätzle is considered the signature dish of Swabia, in southwestern Germany, where locals are often called "Spätzlesschwaben" — the Swabians of…
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🛒 Complete shopping list
All ingredients for the week, sorted alphabetically. Estimated ~€31–42 for 2 people.
~€31–42 / week
149 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