Meal plan — week of 2026-06-29
This week's dinners
- Tzatziki
- Easy Boneless Chicken Thighs
- Instant Pot Chicken Thighs · 13 min · Chicken
- Easy Chickpea Salad · Vegetarian
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Estimated cost
$55.11 for the week · ~$2.30 per serving
Estimate from typical grocery prices — 10 item(s) auto-estimated, 4 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 31% of ingredients (22 distinct items across 32 recipe slots), spanning 3 proteins and 1 cuisines.
- Tzatziki — seed (highest rating)
- Easy Boneless Chicken Thighs — +0 shared ingredients, +0 new items
- Instant Pot Chicken Thighs — +0 shared ingredients, +1 new items
- Easy Chickpea Salad — +2 shared ingredients, +7 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.
| dill | ×2 | prepared as finely chopped, chopped |
| garlic | ×2 | prepared as minced, grated |
| lemon | ×2 | no special prep |
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):
- chickpeas — Roast leftover chickpeas for a crunchy snack
- dill — Mix leftover dill into cream cheese for a bagel spread
- lemon — Squeeze leftover lemon into a water or vinaigrette
- parsley — Toss leftover parsley into a lemony grain bowl
- tomato — Make a quick bruschetta toast snack
Whole Foods order
Opens Amazon Whole Foods in your browser (make Chrome your default so the Claude extension is available).
- Open the Claude for Chrome side panel: press ⌘E (Mac) / Ctrl+E (Windows), or click the Claude icon in the toolbar.
- Copy the task below — click it, then ⌘A to select all and ⌘C to copy — and paste it into the panel.
- Claude fills the cart and stops before checkout for your review.
Add these groceries to my Amazon Whole Foods Market cart, then STOP at the cart for my review — do not check out or change payment/address. Store: https://www.amazon.com/ Items (total amounts for the week; round up to sensible packages): - english cucumber (1) - garlic (4) - lemon (6 tbsp) - onion (1) - oregano (1.5 tsp) - parsley (0.25 cup) - persian cucumbers (9) - tomato (1) - chicken thigh (9) - plain whole-milk greek yogurt (6 cup) - chickpeas (2 can) - black pepper (as needed) - garlic powder (1.5 tsp) - onion powder (0.75 tsp) - pepper (as needed) - salt (as needed) - thyme (0.75 tsp) - honey (1 tsp) - olive oil (7.5 tbsp) - white vinegar (1 tbsp) - (6) - dill (10 tbsp) - za atar (as needed)