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Budget friendly summer family dinners - week 1

Week 1 of our summer meal plan that make shopping and cooking easy and affordable. Zero food waste and nutritionally balanced.

It’s never been easier to feed the whānau!
This week one summer meal plan has five easy and tasty dinner recipes that can feed four people. Download the shopping list and recipes to enjoy in season veges, zero food waste and nutritionally balanced dinners!

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Week 1 meal plan

Week one features flavourful chicken couscous, easy-peasy corn fitters, Chinese-style beef stir-fry, a deliciously healthy poké bowl and takeaway style souvlaki. Download and print the planner and shopping list here. 
Tips for this meal plan
  • Cook the poké and souvlaki in order, so the seasonal salad leaves are used up over the two days. Other than that, you can cook the meals in any order you like. 
  • You can use salad ingredients you already have at home instead of buying a bag of seasonal salad leaves.
  • To stop your salad leaves going soggy, open the bag when you get home and pop a piece of paper towel on each side of the bag, then fold it closed. This will absorb excess moisture and keep the leaves fresh.  
  • Skinless chicken breast can be substituted with skinless thigh fillets if preferred.
  • Instead of fresh corn cob kernels you can use frozen corn kernels and defrost when needed.  
  • Eggs are listed as a staple ingredient – you’ll need three for the summer fritters

Some ingredients will be used across more than one meal in a week. These ingredients are all marked with a * so you know not to use all of the ingredient in one meal.

* Each meal plan of 5 meals is designed to use in-season fruit and veges. Fruit and vege growing conditions and pricing vary throughout each season, so choose cheaper in season fresh, or frozen substitutes if  a particular item is unseasonably expensive.