🌱 Weekly meal plan

Vegetarian – Colourful & Healthy

A meat-free week rich in plant proteins, fresh vegetables and global flavours. Perfect for reducing meat consumption.

2 people 7 days ~€31–42 / week 130 ingredients

📅 Full weekly plan

Day Lunch Dinner
Monday
Cacio e Pepe Cacio e Pepe is four ingredients and one perfect technique — spaghetti, finely grated Pecorino Romano, freshly ground pepper and starchy pasta water…
Koshari Koshari is Egypt's national street food, sold from carts and storefronts across Cairo and Alexandria.
Tuesday
Palak Paneer Palak paneer cooks spinach hot with spices — cumin, ginger, chilli, garam masala — folded around cubes of seared paneer cheese.
Som Tam Som tam — green papaya salad — is Isaan Thailand in a mortar: shredded papaya, fresh chilli, garlic, lime juice, fish sauce, peanuts and tomato…
Wednesday
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.
Greek Salad Horiatiki — literally 'village salad' — is the soul of the Greek summer table: tomatoes warmed by the sun, cucumber straight from the garden, a slab…
Thursday
Pizza Margherita Pizza Margherita was born in Naples in 1889, when baker Raffaele Esposito dedicated a pie to Queen Margherita in Italy's tricolour: red San Marzano…
Caprese Salad Insalata Caprese was created on the island of Capri in the 1920s — at the Hotel Quisisana, in some tellings — as a tribute to the Italian flag, with…
Friday
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.
Gazpacho Gazpacho is the signature cold soup of Andalusia in southern Spain, born in the sun-scorched farmhouses of the Guadalquivir valley where field…
Saturday
Pasta e fagioli Pasta e fagioli — pasta and beans — is one of Italy's most enduring peasant dishes, rooted in the cucina povera tradition of making a satisfying meal…
Coconut Rice Coconut rice is a staple across Southeast Asian, South Asian, and Caribbean cuisines — a simple technique with a surprisingly aromatic result.
Sunday
Tabbouleh Tabbouleh comes from the mountain villages of Lebanon and Syria, where flat-leaf parsley grows in every kitchen garden.
Fufu Fufu is the staple starch of West Africa — a dense, elastic paste made by boiling and pounding cassava together with plantain.

🛒 Complete shopping list

130 ingredients

All ingredients for the week, sorted alphabetically. Estimated ~€31–42 for 2 people.

Vegetables & herbs

  • Bell peppers200 g
  • Carrots
  • Cassava root700 g
  • Celery
  • Cucumber200 g
  • Fresh basil
  • Fresh chillies1 small
  • Fresh coriander
  • Fresh mint20 g
  • Fresh parsley200 g
  • Fresh rosemary1
  • Fresh scotch bonnet chilli
  • Fresh thyme1
  • Garlic
  • Ginger
  • Green pepper
  • Kalamata olives100 g
  • Lemon juice75 ml
  • Lemongrass1
  • Lettuce
  • Lime juice
  • Lime zest
  • Mild red bell peppers300 g
  • Onion150 g
  • Red onion
  • Shallot25 g
  • Spinach500 g
  • Spring onions
  • Tomatoes1.6 kg

Meat & fish

  • Pancetta100 g
  • Prawns

Dairy & eggs

  • Block feta200 g
  • Buffalo mozzarella250 g
  • Cream75 ml
  • Eggs
  • Eggs at room temperature4 large
  • Feta-style cheese50 g
  • Fior di latte mozzarella per pizza100 g
  • Full-fat coconut milk400 ml
  • Full-fat sour cream200 g
  • Paneer250 g
  • Parmesan
  • Parmigiano rind1
  • Pecorino200 g

Dry goods

  • Canned borlotti beans400 g
  • Chickpeas400 g
  • Coarse cornmeal250 g
  • Fine bulgur wheat50 g
  • Green lentils200 g
  • Long-grain rice400 g
  • Long-grain white rice200 g
  • Pasta200 g
  • Semolina
  • Small macaroni150 g

Sauces & oils

  • Chicken stock1.2 L
  • Red wine25 ml
  • Tamarind concentrate
  • Tomato paste50 ml

Bakery

  • White bread100 g

Miscellaneous

  • 00 flour500 g
  • About 150 ml hot cooking water reserved from the pot
  • Brânză de burduf200 g
  • Coconut oil
  • Coriander powder
  • Green papaya400 g
  • Heaped tablespoon
  • Kasoori methi
  • Long beans
  • Palm sugar25 ml
  • Pandan leaves
  • Pot of hot west african soup600 ml
  • Roasted peanuts25 ml
  • Semi-ripe plantains500 g
  • Thai fish sauce25 ml
  • Tonnarelli400 g
  • Unsweetened desiccated coconut25 g

Pantry staples

  • Balsamic vinegar
  • Bay leaves
  • Black pepper
  • Butter
  • Caraway
  • Cumin
  • Cumin seeds
  • Dried oregano
  • Neutral oil
  • Olive oil
  • Paprika
  • Salt
  • Sugar

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