🌱 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 |
Menemen
Menemen is the quintessential Turkish breakfast — eggs cracked directly into a pan with tomatoes, green bell pepper, and sometimes onion, everything cooked in olive oil.
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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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| Tuesday |
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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Shakshuka
Shakshuka arrived in Israel with Sephardic Jewish immigrants from North Africa and the Middle East in the mid-twentieth century, bringing the dish…
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| Wednesday |
Cinnamon Bun
Kanelbulle is the Swedish cinnamon bun — a soft, lightly enriched dough flavoured with cinnamon and cardamom, twisted into distinctive knots and scattered with pearl sugar.
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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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| Thursday |
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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Pierogi
Pierogi are one of the oldest preparations in Polish cooking, documented in culinary records from the thirteenth century.
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| Friday |
Tabbouleh
Tabbouleh comes from the mountain villages of Lebanon and Syria, where flat-leaf parsley grows in every kitchen garden.
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Ful Medames
Ful medames is one of the oldest prepared foods still in common use — fava beans cooked and eaten in Egypt and the Levant for at least four thousand years.
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| Saturday |
Spanakopita
Spanakopita — spinach and feta pie — is one of the most recognisable dishes in Greek cuisine.
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Nasi lemak
Nasi lemak — whose name means fatty or rich rice in Malay — is Malaysia's national dish and the nation's breakfast.
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| Sunday |
Hummus
Hummus — the Arabic word for chickpea — has been claimed as cultural property by Lebanon, Israel, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt for decades.
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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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🛒 Complete shopping list
All ingredients for the week, sorted alphabetically. Estimated ~€31–42 for 2 people.
Vegetables & herbs
- Bean sprouts150 g
- Bell peppers2 large
- Bunch chives1 small
- Cabbage200 g
- Carrots200 g
- Cornichons and boiled new potatoes
- Cucumber400 g
- Fresh chillies
- Fresh coriander
- Fresh dill25 g
- Fresh mint20 g
- Fresh parsley250 g
- Fresh thyme
- Garlic
- Ginger25 g
- Green beans200 g
- Handful flat-leaf parsley1 small
- Lemon juice150 ml
- Lemongrass1
- Lime zest
- Onion200 g
- Potatoes800 g
- Red onion200 g
- Shallot150 g
- Spinach1 kg
- Spring onions
- Tomatoes1.9 kg
Meat & fish
- Ikan bilis50 g
- Prawn crackers and lime wedges
- Smoked bacon lardons100 g
Dairy & eggs
- Coconut milk200 ml
- Eggs19 large
- Emmental200 g
- Farmer's cheese200 g
- Feta300 g
- Feta-style beyaz peynir25 g
- Full-fat coconut milk800 ml
- Gruyère400 g
- Kefalotyri100 g
- Milk250 ml
Dry goods
- Chickpeas400 g
- Fine bulgur wheat50 g
- Firm tofu400 g
- Long-grain jasmine rice400 g
- Long-grain parboiled rice400 g
- Long-grain rice400 g
- Red lentils300 g
- Small fava beans400 g
- Tempeh150 g
Sauces & oils
- Chicken stock750 ml
- Tahini75 g
- Tamarind paste25 ml
- Tamarind paste dissolved in 4 tbsp warm water25 ml
- Tomato paste50 ml
- Vegetable stock1
- White wine300 ml
Bakery
- Crusty baguette500 g
- Crusty bread
- Phyllo pastry500 g
Miscellaneous
- Belacan
- Coconut oil
- Curry powder
- Fast-action7 g
- Ice-cold water75 ml
- Kecap manis25 ml
- Kirsch25 ml
- Note on regional debate
- Palm sugar25 ml
- Pandan leaves
- Pandan leaves tied into a knot
- Pearl sugar25 ml
- Pul biber
- Scotch bonnet
- Sivri biber150 g
- Skinless peanuts50 g
- Smooth peanut butter200 g
- Thick slices of
- Turkish oil50 ml
- Unsweetened desiccated coconut25 g
Pantry staples
- Bay leaves
- Black pepper
- Butter
- Cardamom
- Cayenne pepper
- Chilli flakes
- Cinnamon
- Cornstarch
- Cumin
- Dried oregano
- Flour
- Neutral oil
- Nutmeg
- Olive oil
- Paprika
- Salt
- Sugar
- Turmeric
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