A little bit of everything this week, from a speedy teriyaki beef bowl to a creamy garlic prawn pasta that feels fancy but comes together in 15 minutes. We’ve also got a cosy potato and leek soup with the most delicious bacon crumb and my all time most popular recipe – the classic sausage rolls. They make the best weekend treat or snack!
Week of 31 August – 6 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.
15 Minute Creamy Garlic Prawn Pasta
Dairy Free Potato and Leek Soup with Bacon Crumb
Sweet Potato and Chickpea Burgers
Shopping list
Download printable PDFBuilt for the quantities on each card (dinners serve 2–8; the bonus makes ~22).
Fresh produce
- Broccoli 1 small head
- Carrot 1 small
- Fresh ginger
- Fresh parsley several recipes
- Garlic several recipes
- Leeks 2
- Lemons 2
- Lettuce
- Onion several recipes
- Potatoes 4
- Red capsicum 1
- Red onion
- Small potatoes 500 g
- Spring onions
- Sweet potato 1 medium
Meat & seafood
- Bacon 100 g
- Beef mince 250 g
- Chicken thighs (skin on, bone in) 4
- Lean beef mince 500 g
- Pork mince 250 g
- Prawns (peeled, deveined) 400 g
- Shortcut bacon 2 rashers
Fridge & freezer
- Crusty bread 1 loaf
- Dairy free butter 4 tbsp
- Dairy free cream 1 ⅓ cups
- Egg 1
- Eggs 2
- Frozen puff pastry 3 sheets
- Plant-based brioche buns 4
- Vegan mayonnaise
Pantry & sauces
- Breadcrumbs ½ cup
- Chicken or vegetable stock 3 cups
- Chickpeas 420 g can
- Coconut milk ¼ cup
- Long pasta (linguine/fettuccine) 400 g
- Mirin 3 tbsp
- Panko breadcrumbs ¾ cup
- Sliced pickles
- Tomato relish
Check your pantry staples
- Bay leaf
- Brown sugar
- Canola oil
- Cayenne pepper
- Cornflour
- Dried oregano
- Ground cumin
- Honey
- Olive oil
- Pepper
- Rice
- Salt
- Sesame oil
- Sesame seeds
- Smoked paprika
- Soy sauce
- Tomato sauce/ketchup
- Worcestershire sauce
Nothing goes to waste
A handful of ingredients stretch across more than one meal. Buy once, use it up:
- Garlic → runs through the prawn pasta, the chicken tray bake and the soup.
- Lemon → flavours the chicken tray bake and a squeeze finishes the prawn pasta.
- Bacon → a little in the soup crumb and again in the sausage rolls.
Your prep plan
- Bake a loaf of no-knead bread for soup night — start the dough the night before, it’s hands-off.
- Prep the sausage rolls ahead and freeze for easy meals or after school snacks.
- The prawn pasta (15 min) and teriyaki beef (25 min) are your quick wins.
- Make the soup ahead — it only gets better the next day.
Happy cooking, Sally x
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