Monday
Sticky Chicken Chow Mein
Chicken chow mein, the Chinese takeaway order, made at home on a Monday.
A couple with a takeaway habit
A fakeaway meal plan for the week, shopped at Tesco
Seven takeaway-style dinners to cook at home, one for each usual order: Chinese, curry, the chippy, a kebab, pizza, burgers and katsu. You both swipe in What's For Dinner?! (WFD), the matches build the week, and the shopping goes into a Tesco trolley from one iPhone.
The seven dinners
Tuesday
Speedy Lamb Keema Curry
A lamb keema curry. Curry night, without the wait for the driver.
FishWednesday
Classic Fish Finger Sandwich & Chips
A fish finger sandwich with chips. The chippy, in your own kitchen.
Thursday
Garlicky Chicken Souvlaki Wraps
Garlicky chicken souvlaki wraps. The kebab-shop order, heavy on the garlic.
Friday
Garlic Butter Baguette Pizzas
Baguette pizzas with garlic butter. Friday pizza night, with no delivery fee.
Saturday
Cheeseburger Smash Tacos
Cheeseburger smash tacos. Burger night, folded in half.
VeganSunday
Crispy Katsu Mock Chicken Buns
Crispy katsu buns with plant-based chicken. Sunday's wildcard.
- The shopOne list, one trolleyAll seven dinners become one shopping list, and on iPhone the Personal Shopper puts it in your Tesco trolley.How the shop works
Pictures, cooking times and servings are from each meal's card in the app.
Disclosure first: we make What's For Dinner?! (WFD). This is a week of fakeaways, takeaway-style dinners you cook at home, that a couple could end up with. Every meal on it is in the app.
Hardly anyone orders a takeaway because they planned to. It's twenty to eight, the little one's finally asleep, nobody's decided anything and you've both got nothing left. The delivery app's already open on someone's phone. That isn't a willpower problem. It's a deciding problem, and it started about four hours earlier.
So decide earlier. In WFD you both swipe on meals on your own phones, in your own time, and when you both love the same meal it's a match. Matches build the week and the week builds the shopping list. By twenty to eight on Friday, Friday's already pizza.
A takeaway for every night
This week works through the usual orders. Chinese on Monday, curry on Tuesday, the chippy on Wednesday, a kebab-shop wrap on Thursday, pizza on Friday, burgers on Saturday and katsu on Sunday. Seven nights of the food you'd order, and not one delivery fee.
In our view that's where WFD saves you money. The plan builds one list with the quantities merged into the pack sizes the shop sells, there's a "Have it" button for whatever's already in the cupboard, and the trolley gets filled from the week's dinners instead of from whatever looked good in the aisle.
You'll still order in sometimes, and you should. The difference is you'll order because you fancy it, not because it's twenty to eight and nobody decided.
When the week's set, the Personal Shopper puts the list into your Tesco trolley on iPhone. That part's further down the page. There's more on what not deciding costs in the indecision tax.
How a week like this gets made
What's For Dinner?! (WFD) is a swipe-to-match dinner-decision and meal-planning app for couples, families and households: everyone swipes on meals, you match on one you both want, matches build your weekly plan, and the plan builds your shopping list. Available on iPhone and Android.
Everyone swipes
Each person swipes on meals on their own phone, whenever suits them. Love it or skip it. Nobody sees what anyone else skipped.
Two yeses make a match
When two people love the same meal, it's a match. The plan builds from whoever has swiped, so nobody's dinner waits on anyone else.
Matches build the week
Matched meals build a seven-night plan. Swap a meal, move it to another night, lock the ones you're sure of or skip a night you won't be cooking.
The plan builds the list
One shopping list for the whole week, and on iPhone the Personal Shopper puts it in your supermarket trolley.
Shopping the week at Tesco
- The plan builds one shopping list for the week, with quantities merged into the pack sizes UK shops sell and sorted by supermarket aisle. Tap "Have it" for anything that's already in the cupboard.
- Each ingredient is mapped by hand to a real product at the supermarket, so packs are counted, not guessed.
- The Personal Shopper puts every line into your own trolley at Tesco, Sainsbury's, Ocado or Morrisons, on iPhone, in the UK, and reads the trolley back after each add to check it went in. This household shops at Tesco.
- You sign in to the supermarket yourself, review the trolley, pick a slot and pay there. WFD never sees your supermarket password, never places an order and takes no payment.
- In our own run on 25 October 2026, the Personal Shopper added 70 of 70 lines to an Ocado trolley in 3 minutes 12 seconds.
- WFD is free to use, with no time limit: swiping, matching, the weekly plan and cook mode. Full Access adds the shopping list and the tools to change the week, £2.99 a month or £24.99 a year for up to six people, with a 3-day free trial.
The whole run, timed, is in the weekly food shop in under four minutes.
Questions, answered
What is a fakeaway?
A fakeaway is a takeaway-style dinner you cook at home, like a chow mein, a curry, fish and chips, a kebab or a pizza. Every dinner on this week's plan is a meal in What's For Dinner?! (WFD), where you swipe on meals, match on the ones you both want, and the matches build the week.
How do we stop ordering a takeaway every Friday?
Decide Friday on Sunday. In What's For Dinner?! (WFD) you both swipe on meals on your own phone, two yeses make a match, and matches build a seven-night plan with a shopping list behind it. When Friday comes, dinner's already decided.
Is cooking fakeaways cheaper than ordering in?
In our view, yes. What's For Dinner?! (WFD) builds one shopping list from the week's plan, merges quantities into the pack sizes the supermarket sells and has a "Have it" button for what's already in the cupboard, so you buy the week's food in one shop instead of paying for delivery night by night.
Will we get this exact week in WFD?
Not this exact week. What's For Dinner?! (WFD) builds your plan from your own swipes, so your week comes from what the two of you liked. Every dinner on this page is a meal in WFD.
How does WFD get the shopping into a Tesco trolley?
On iPhone, the Personal Shopper in What's For Dinner?! (WFD) opens Tesco's own website inside the app, shows you which product is going in for each line, then adds each one to your trolley and reads the trolley back to check. You sign in to Tesco yourself and pay there. WFD never sees your password, never places an order and takes no payment.
How much does WFD cost?
What's For Dinner?! (WFD) is free to use, with no time limit: swiping, matching, the weekly plan and cook mode. Full Access adds the shopping list and the tools to change the week, £2.99 a month or £24.99 a year for up to six people, with a 3-day free trial.
More in the full FAQ. If anything on this page is out of date or wrong, tell us and we’ll correct it.
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