Monday
Sticky Gochujang Chicken Noodles
Sticky gochujang chicken over noodles. A Monday dinner that tends to disappear.
Two parents, a teenager, a student home at weekends
A family meal plan with teenagers, shopped at Ocado
Seven family dinners for a house with teenagers in it, and a student who's home most weekends. Everyone swipes in What's For Dinner?! (WFD) on their own phone, the matches build the week, and the shopping goes into an Ocado trolley from one iPhone.
The seven dinners
Tuesday
Saucy Cheeseburger Pasta Shells
Cheeseburger flavours in a pan of pasta shells. It's daft and it works.
Wednesday
Sticky Chicken Fried Rice
Chicken fried rice, which a teenager will eat at any hour, including the next morning.
Thursday
Crispy Sausage Gnocchi Traybake
Sausages and gnocchi on one tray. It goes in the oven while you have the homework conversation.
Friday
Cheesy Loaded Beef Nachos
Loaded beef nachos for Friday. The card says it serves eight. With teenagers, call it five.
Saturday
Crispy Buttermilk Chicken Burgers
Crispy buttermilk chicken in a bun. The student's home, so make extra.
Sunday
Cheesy One-Pan Beef Lasagne
A one-pan beef lasagne for Sunday, when everyone's home and the table's full.
- The shopOne list, one trolleyAll seven dinners become one shopping list, and on iPhone the Personal Shopper puts it in your Ocado 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 dinners a house with teenagers in it could end up with, and every meal on it is in the app.
Teenagers eat like it's a sport. They also have views on dinner, strong ones, usually delivered at twenty to seven when the pasta's already on. Feeding them was never the hard part. Getting the views in early is.
That's what the swipe is for. Everyone has the app on their own phone and swipes on meals, love it or skip it. A sixteen-year-old will swipe through a deck on the bus without being asked twice. Your partner gets to say "I don't mind" with a thumb instead of out loud, which is progress. The student who's home most weekends swipes from halls, so Sunday's lasagne was partly their idea.
When two of you love the same meal it's a match, and matches build the week. Nobody sees what anyone else skipped, so the teenager who'd never admit to liking the cheeseburger pasta doesn't have to.
When the house isn't full
Some nights it's two of you and a lot of leftovers. Skip a night you won't be cooking and the shopping list drops that night's food. Skipping is free. Want something different on Thursday? Swap the meal, or move it to another night, and the list follows again.
Then there's the shop itself, which in a house like this is a big one. The plan builds one list, merged into the pack sizes the shop sells, and on iPhone the Personal Shopper puts it into your Ocado trolley. How that works is just below.
For more on giving everyone at the table a vote, read about a meal planning app where the kids get a say.
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 Ocado
- 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 Ocado.
- 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's a good weekly meal plan for a family with teenagers?
One they helped pick. The week on this page runs from gochujang chicken noodles on Monday to a beef lasagne on Sunday, with nachos and buttermilk chicken burgers in between. In What's For Dinner?! (WFD) everyone swipes on meals on their own phone, two yeses make a match, and matches build the week, so the teenagers' views are in before anything's cooked.
How do I get teenagers to say what they want for dinner before six o'clock?
Give them a phone to say it on. In What's For Dinner?! (WFD) each person swipes on meals whenever suits them, love it or skip it, and the plan is built from what people liked. Nobody sees what anyone else skipped, and nobody's dinner waits on the one who forgets.
Can a student who's away at university still have a say?
Yes. A What's For Dinner?! (WFD) household can have up to six people, each on their own phone, wherever they are. A student can swipe from halls on a Thursday, and if they match with someone at home, that meal can go into the week.
Can WFD do a big family shop at Ocado?
Yes. The plan in What's For Dinner?! (WFD) builds one shopping list for the week, and on iPhone the Personal Shopper opens Ocado's own website inside the app and adds every line to your trolley, reading it back after each add. In our own run on 25 October 2026 it added 70 of 70 lines to an Ocado trolley in 3 minutes 12 seconds. You check the trolley, pick a slot and pay with Ocado yourself.
What happens on a night nobody's in for dinner?
Skip it. In What's For Dinner?! (WFD) skipping a night is free, and the shopping list is rebuilt without that night's food. The shopping list itself is part of Full Access.
How much does WFD cost for a family of five?
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. For five people on the monthly plan, that's about 60p each a month.
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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