Welcome to this week’s meal plan. The aim of these plans is to help you plan your weekly meals. Whether you are trying to cut down on your meat intake, and you are looking for some vegetarian dinner inspiration or you’re a new vegetarian and you’re stuck for dinner ideas. I hope you find these plans helpful. You can follow them for the week or you can pick and choose one or two recipes. It’s up to you. All recipes cater for 4 servings. They can be adjusted to suit less or more by using the serving tool in the recipe cards. Toward the end of this page, I have included a shopping list and a store cupboard list. If you’d like to see last week’s meal plan you can find week 4 here.
Monday - Halloumi Wraps
These spicy halloumi wraps are super tasty, filling and great for lunch or dinner. With roasted chickpeas and a minty yoghurt sauce, they're definitely not short on flavour. We love these on their own but they are really great with some crispy baked potato wedges if you are feeling particularly hungry. They're quick and easy to make and ready in 30 minutes. Perfect for a busy weeknight dinner.
Tuesday - Vegetable Orzo Soup
This vegetable orzo soup is perfect for when the weather gets cooler. It’s packed with flavour, with a tomato base, lots of herbs and a little kick from the chilli. It’s filling enough to serve as a main meal due to the orzo in it. We happily have this on its own with a generous grating of cheese or if we're really hungry we have it with some good crusty bread. That’s all you need with this soup, it really is a complete meal.
Wednesday - Vegan Sausage Casserole
This vegan sausage casserole is spicy, rich and very comforting and really easy to make. A rich, slightly spicy tomato sauce with herbs, garlic and a little bit of wine is the base for this casserole. Add in some sweet peppers, creamy butter beans and some good vegan or vegetarian “sausages” and you have a great weeknight dinner. We like to have this with a generous serving of creamy mashed potatoes, however, creamy polenta or couscous works really well too.
Thursday - Creamy Spinach and Mushroom Pasta
This spinach and mushroom dish comes together fairly quickly, it’s ready in about 30 minutes so is perfect for an easy weeknight dinner. It’s creamy, indulgent and packed with mushrooms and spinach. The creamy, cheesy sauce is smooth and garlicky. Perfect for mushroom lovers, this pasta dish is everything you want in a cosy pasta dinner.
Friday - Baked Feta with Chickpeas and Spinach
I’m keeping it warm and cosy today with this baked feta dish. This baked feta dish is a firm favourite with the whole family. It’s rich and warming and perfect for a chilly Autumn day. With creamy feta, chickpeas and spinach in a rich harissa tomato sauce, this is perfect on its own with some crusty bread or it's also really good with a side of couscous. Another easy to make dish this is ready in 40 minutes.
Shopping List
- Baby spinach 300g
- 8 x cherry tomatoes
- 1 small cucumber
- 1 x red onion
- 2 x large brown onions
- 3 x large shallots
- 2 x large romano peppers
- 250g chestnut mushrooms
- 1 x stalk of celery
- 1 x medium onion
- 1 x medium red bell pepper
- 1 x bulb of garlic
- Fresh mint (6 or 7 leaves)
- Parsley (1 small pack)
- Thyme ( 1 small pack)
- Rosemary (1 small pack)
- 2 x lemons
- 1 x lime
- 1 x 100g tub of natural yoghurt
- 150ml of double cream
- 1 x 250g pack of halloumi
- 1 x 200g pack of feta
- Vegetarian parmesan cheese
- 2 x 400g can of chickpeas
- 1 x 400g can of butter beans
- 5 x 400g cans of chopped tomatoes
- 4 x large tortilla wraps
- 100g x orzo (dry weight)
- 200g linguine (dry weight)
- Red wine (optional)
- 6 vegan or vegetarian sausages
Store Cupboard Ingredients
- Olive oil
- Vegetable stock cubes/bouillon
- Pine nuts
- Red harissa
- Smoked paprika
- Ground cumin
- Dried coriander
- Dried oregano
- Dried Bay Leaf
- Dried red chilli flakes
- Butter
- Sea salt
- Black pepper