VegetarianMonday
Golden Saag Paneer
Spinach and paneer curry to start the week. Paneer is the swap the meat-eaters don't argue with.
Family of four, one vegetarian teenager
A vegetarian family meal plan for the week, shopped at Tesco
Seven vegetarian dinners for a family where one teenager has stopped eating meat and nobody else has. Everyone swipes 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
- Vegetarian
VeganTuesday
Sticky Soy Lo Mein
Sticky soy noodles for the night everyone gets in late. It's hard to cook too many noodles for a teenager.
VegetarianWednesday
Coronation Chickpea Wraps
Coronation chickpeas rolled up in wraps and eaten with your hands. Midweek picnic food.
VegetarianThursday
Proper Cheddar Macaroni Cheese
Macaroni cheese made with proper cheddar. Nobody has to be talked into this one.
VegetarianFriday
Cheesy Black Bean Nacho Traybake
Black bean nachos on a tray under a lot of cheese. It's Friday.
VeganSaturday
Saucy Marmite Sloppy Joes
Marmite sloppy joes. Two of you loved them and two didn't, and two yeses make a match.
VeganSunday
Creamy Miso Cauliflower Cheese & Sausages
Cauliflower cheese with meat-free sausages, for whoever wants Sunday to feel like Sunday.
- 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 dinners a family like yours could end up with, and every meal on it is in the app.
Say your fifteen-year-old came home in September and announced they'd stopped eating meat. Fair enough. The principle was never the problem. Tuesday is the problem. You can cook two dinners every night, or one dinner the whole table eats, and only one of those leaves you with an evening.
So dinner goes vegetarian. In WFD that's one setting. Put vegetarian in the household's Dietary Needs and every meal the app offers fits it, in the swipe deck, Explore, search, Tonight and swaps. Set it on one phone and everyone's plan follows.
Then everyone swipes, on their own phone, whenever suits them. Your partner, who says "I don't mind" about most things, now has to mind one card at a time. Your eldest can swipe from halls on a Thursday night. Nobody sees what anyone else skipped. When two of you love the same meal it's a match, and matches build the week.
Why the week looks like this
The quick ones sit early in the week and the longer cooks wait for the weekend. Nachos land on Friday because it's Friday. The Marmite sloppy joes split the house down the middle, which doesn't matter. Two yeses make a match, and everyone's own likes get their turn on other nights. Sunday's a cauliflower cheese with meat-free sausages, for the meat-eater who still wants a proper Sunday dinner.
None of it got argued about at the fridge door. In our house, that's the bit we'd miss most.
If the week changes, so does the plan. Swap a meal, move it to another night or skip a night you won't be cooking, and the shopping list follows. Then the Personal Shopper puts it in your Tesco trolley, and the shop section further down shows how.
There's more on feeding one table with different tastes in how to stop cooking separate meals for everyone in the family.
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
Can a whole family eat vegetarian if only one of them is?
Yes, and it's usually less work than cooking two dinners. In What's For Dinner?! (WFD) you put vegetarian in the household's Dietary Needs, and every meal the app offers fits it, in the swipe deck, Explore, search, Tonight and swaps. The meat-eaters still swipe on their own phones, so the week is made of vegetarian dinners they picked.
Will my family get exactly this week in WFD?
Not this exact week. What's For Dinner?! (WFD) builds each household's plan from its own swipes, so your week comes from what your family liked. Every dinner on this page is a meal in WFD, and with vegetarian set in Dietary Needs, every meal you're offered fits it.
Does everyone in the family have to swipe?
No. What's For Dinner?! (WFD) builds the plan from whoever has swiped, so nobody's dinner waits on anyone else, and one person liking three meals is enough to start. The more of you who swipe, the better the week. When two people love the same meal it's a match, and nobody sees what anyone else skipped.
What if the meat-eaters don't like the look of a meal?
They skip it. In What's For Dinner?! (WFD) a skip is a swipe, not a row, and nobody sees what anyone else skipped. A skipped meal usually stays out for two weeks, and the plan is built from the meals people liked.
How does WFD get the shopping into a Tesco trolley?
The weekly plan in What's For Dinner?! (WFD) builds one shopping list, and on iPhone the Personal Shopper opens Tesco's own website inside the app and adds each line to your trolley, reading the trolley back after each add to check it went in. You sign in to Tesco yourself, review the trolley, pick a slot and pay there. WFD never sees your password and never places an order.
How much does WFD cost for a family?
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. The Personal Shopper is part of Full Access, and Dietary Needs is free.
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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