How to Plan a Week of Meals

A simple method for building a realistic seven-day meal plan without overbuying ingredients.

Pick a few meals with overlapping ingredients so one shopping trip can cover multiple recipes.

Mix short and longer recipes. A 10–20 minute meal can cover a busy night while a soup, curry or baked dish can provide leftovers.

Plan leftovers deliberately. For example, cooked rice can become fried rice, and leftover roasted vegetables can become a couscous bowl or flatbread topping.

Use the ToolZeroo Kitchen meal planner to save the seven selected recipes locally and create a combined shopping list.