Six dinners. One shopping list. Any size family.

Every week: six original weeknight dinners, planned to share ingredients and built around a real grocery budget — with a shopping list that scales to your household.

6 Easy Dinners with Flavors You Already Love
Set servings for the whole week
Applies to every dinner at once — tailor any single meal below if it needs more or fewer.
Estimated grocery total: $0 Jump to the shopping list ↓

6 Easy Dinners with Flavors You Already Love

General Tso's chicken, honey garlic pork chops, crispy cornmeal catfish, buffalo chicken mac and cheese, loaded vegetarian nachos, and country-fried pork chops with sausage gravy: six takeout, Tex-Mex, and Southern favorites built to share ingredients.

🧊 Before you shop: pick which 3 dinners you'll make first — ideally starting with the most perishable proteins (seafood, then ground meat), saving heartier ones like chicken thighs or a roast for later. Freeze the proteins for your back-half dinners the same day you shop; thaw each one in the fridge the night before you plan to cook it. Don't let a week's worth of raw meat just sit in the fridge hoping you'll get to it in time.

Combined Shopping List

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Check items off as you shop — skipped dinners are left out

Seasonings & spices are listed above so you don't forget them, but we assume you already have a stocked spice rack — they're left out of the estimated grocery total.

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