Meal plan — week of 2026-06-29

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Estimated cost

$96.79 for the week · ~$4.03 per serving

Estimate from typical grocery prices — 17 item(s) auto-estimated, 1 couldn't be priced.

Why these recipes

Recipes are chosen to maximize shared ingredients, keep the shopping list short, minimize leftovers from whole-unit items (e.g. pairing a recipe needing 1.5 cans of beans with one using 0.5), and favor pairs that use the same protein cooked the same way so you can batch-cook it once — while keeping variety: no repeated or near-duplicate dish, and at most two dinners per cuisine.

This week reuses about 24% of ingredients (28 distinct items across 37 recipe slots), spanning 3 proteins and 1 cuisines.

• Waldorf Salad — seed (highest rating)
• Arugula Salad With Parmesan — +1 shared ingredients, +2 new items
• Fruity Curried Chicken Salad — +2 shared ingredients, +5 new items
• Colorful Tomato and Spinach Seafood Pasta — +3 shared ingredients, +8 new items

Shared ingredients — prep once, use across recipes

These ingredients appear in multiple dinners. Where the prep matches, do it all at once (e.g. mince the whole head of garlic up front) to simplify the week's cooking.

Likely leftovers — turn them into lunch or a snack

These perishable ingredients usually leave a little behind. Ideas to use them up (spices, oils, and vinegars are excluded):

• celery — Fill leftover celery with peanut butter or cream cheese for a snack
• lemon — Squeeze leftover lemon into a water or vinaigrette
• parmesan — Shave leftover parmesan over a lunch salad or pasta
• parsley — Toss leftover parsley into a lemony grain bowl
• spinach — Wilt leftover spinach into a lunch omelet or quesadilla
• tomato — Make a quick bruschetta toast snack

Whole Foods order

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Items (total amounts for the week; round up to sensible packages):
-  (0.75 cup)
- apple (6 servings)
- cranberries (6 servings)
- garlic (6 clove)
- lemon (8.5 tbsp)
- parsley (4.5 tbsp)
- shallot (3 large)
- tomato (6 large)
- cod (24 oz)
- pasta (12 oz)
- chicken (3 can)
- chicken broth (1.5 cup)
- black pepper (0.38 tsp)
- curry powder (0.75 tsp)
- flour (6 tbsp)
- salt (as needed)
- salt and pepper (6 servings)
- honey (1.5 tsp)
- mayonnaise (14 tbsp)
- olive oil (4.5 tbsp)
- white wine (0.75 cup)
- crisp red (3)
- ounces baby arugula (6)
- pecans (6 servings)
- seedless red grapes (1.5 cup)
- walnuts (1.5 cup)