🌱 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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…
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Koshari
Koshari is Egypt's national street food, sold from carts and storefronts across Cairo and Alexandria.
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| Tuesday |
Palak Paneer
Palak paneer cooks spinach hot with spices — cumin, ginger, chilli, garam masala — folded around cubes of seared paneer cheese.
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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…
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| 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.
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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…
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| 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…
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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…
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| 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.
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Gazpacho
Gazpacho is the signature cold soup of Andalusia in southern Spain, born in the sun-scorched farmhouses of the Guadalquivir valley where field…
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| 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…
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Coconut Rice
Coconut rice is a staple across Southeast Asian, South Asian, and Caribbean cuisines — a simple technique with a surprisingly aromatic result.
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| Sunday |
Tabbouleh
Tabbouleh comes from the mountain villages of Lebanon and Syria, where flat-leaf parsley grows in every kitchen garden.
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Fufu
Fufu is the staple starch of West Africa — a dense, elastic paste made by boiling and pounding cassava together with plantain.
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🛒 Complete shopping list
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