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How it works

How WeekTable works.

A walkthrough in two minutes, using a marked example week. Then plan your own.

Try the example first

  1. Open the example week. It is marked Example: four people, peanut free, budget friendly, favouring the Nigerian and Caribbean kitchens.
  2. Read it like a menu. Each day is a card with breakfast, lunch with a side, and dinner as a tasting menu: a starter, the main, a side and a dessert.
  3. Do not fancy a dish? Press Swap beside it. The next best dish takes its place, and a new main brings sides that suit it.
  4. Press Shopping list. The whole week is added up for four and sorted by aisle. Tick things off as you shop.
  5. Press Prep plan to see what to do at the weekend and when to start each meal.
  6. Press a day, for example Monday, to cook: the ingredients for your table and every step in order.

Then plan your own

  1. Go to Plan your week.
  2. Choose how many people, which meals and dishes, your diet, the allergens to leave out and the kitchens you like.
  3. Answer the five questions, then press Plan my week.
  4. Keep the plan by keeping its link: bookmark it, or send it to whoever is cooking. Nothing is stored anywhere else.

Words you will see

Tasting menu: a dinner served as several small courses, one after another.

Prep: the jobs done ahead, such as chopping, marinating and making sauces.

Swap: change one dish for another that fits the same place in the meal.

The 14 allergens: the foods UK law says must be shown, such as milk, eggs, peanuts and sesame. The full list.

Plan your week