This week is full of easy, family favourites. We have the best homemade smash burgers, crispy air fryer chicken tenders and a no-cook spicy tuna bowl for the busiest night or weekday lunches. Plus my go-to easy version of a classic apple turnover for dessert night. Enjoy!
Week of 14–20 September
This week’s menu
Find below your five dinners for the week plus an optional bonus. Under that is your shopping list to print or tick off as you go, then a prep-ahead plan and a few notes to make sure you use up every ingredient. Everything is dairy free, with the gluten free swaps and allergens flagged.
Air Fryer Chicken Tenders
Spicy Tuna Sushi Bowls
Slow Cooker Devilled Sausages
Vegan Mac and Cheese
Easy Apple Turnovers
Shopping list
Download printable PDFBuilt for the quantities on each card (dinners serve 2–8; the bonus serves 8).
Fresh produce
- Apples (Granny Smith/Pink Lady) 2–3
- Avocado 2
- Brown onion 1 large
- Cucumber 1
- Garlic
- Granny Smith apple 1
- Lettuce
- Potatoes 800 g
- Sweet potato 350 g
- Tomato
Meat & seafood
- Beef mince (80/20) 500 g
- Chicken tenderloins 500 g
- Thick beef sausages 800 g
Fridge & freezer
- Burger buns 4
- Dairy free butter
- Dairy free cheese slices 8
- Dairy free milk 1 cup
- Egg (or dairy free milk) 1
- Eggs 2
- Frozen peas
- Frozen puff pastry 2 sheets
- Kewpie mayonnaise
- Mayonnaise 4 tbsp
- Oat milk
- Shelled edamame 2 cups
Pantry & sauces
- Beef stock 500 ml
- Coconut milk ½ cup
- Elbow pasta 400 g
- Nutritional yeast ⅓ cup
- Panko breadcrumbs 1 ½ cups
- Pickles
- Seasoned roasted seaweed
- Tinned tuna in spring water 2 x 185 g
Check your pantry staples
- Apple cider vinegar
- Brown sugar
- Cornflour
- Dijon mustard
- Garlic powder
- Ground cinnamon
- Ketchup
- Olive oil
- Onion powder
- Paprika
- Pepper
- Plain flour
- Rice wine vinegar
- Salt
- Sesame seeds
- Smoked paprika
- Soy sauce
- Sriracha
- Sushi rice
- Tomato paste
- Vanilla extract
- White vinegar
- Worcestershire sauce
Nothing goes to waste
A handful of ingredients stretch across more than one meal. Buy once, use it up:
- Lettuce, tomato & pickles → pile onto the smash burgers and into chicken tender wraps.
- Mayonnaise → the burger sauce and the honey mustard dip for the tenders.
- Potatoes → mash for the devilled sausages, and wedges alongside the burgers.
Your prep plan
- Make the burger sauce and honey mustard dip ahead — both keep for days in the fridge.
- Slow-cook the devilled sausages during the day for proper set-and-forget comfort food.
- The tuna bowls are no-cook — just have rice ready for the busiest night.
- Boil potatoes for mash while the sausages finish in the slow cooker.
Happy cooking, Sally x
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