🌱 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 161 ingredients

📅 Full weekly plan

Day Lunch Dinner
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.
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…
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.
Shakshuka Shakshuka arrived in Israel with Sephardic Jewish immigrants from North Africa and the Middle East in the mid-twentieth century, bringing the dish…
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.
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.
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.
Pierogi Pierogi are one of the oldest preparations in Polish cooking, documented in culinary records from the thirteenth century.
Friday
Tabbouleh Tabbouleh comes from the mountain villages of Lebanon and Syria, where flat-leaf parsley grows in every kitchen garden.
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.
Saturday
Spanakopita Spanakopita — spinach and feta pie — is one of the most recognisable dishes in Greek cuisine.
Nasi lemak Nasi lemak — whose name means fatty or rich rice in Malay — is Malaysia's national dish and the nation's breakfast.
Sunday
Hummus Hummus — the Arabic word for chickpea — has been claimed as cultural property by Lebanon, Israel, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt for decades.
Coconut Rice Coconut rice is a staple across Southeast Asian, South Asian, and Caribbean cuisines — a simple technique with a surprisingly aromatic result.

🛒 Complete shopping list

161 ingredients

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