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The Week · Provisioning Manifest

The Bright & Green Week

Four dinners built around one armful of the same fresh produce — lime, cilantro, lemon, scallions, a tub of yogurt. Buy it Saturday, spend forty minutes prepping Sunday, and every night this week is fifteen minutes of actual work. Nothing in the crisper drawer dies unused.

The four dinners

Buy Saturday · One List

Shopping list

The 7 flagged items below are the shared perishables the whole week is built around — buy them once, use them across several dinners, waste none.

Produce

3.5 wholelemonshared ×4
2 wholered onionshared ×2
7 cloves + 3 clovegarlicshared ×5
1.75 bunchcilantroshared ×4
1.5 bunchscallionsshared ×2
5 wholelimeshared ×3
0.25 bunchparsley
4 wholecucumbers
0.5 bunchdill or mint
2 lbcarrots
1.5 lbbaby potatoes
1 bunchbroccolini

Meat & Fish

8 piecesbone-in chicken thighs
4 piecessalmon fillets
1.25 lbflank steak
1.25 lbchicken thighs boneless

Dairy

2 cupplain whole-milk yogurtshared ×3
1 tbspbutter

Bakery

12 countcorn tortillas

Pantry

3 tbspharissa paste
1 cancoconut milk
0.25 cupunsweetened shredded coconut
Check your shelf — staples you likely have
  • olive oil
  • cumin
  • kosher salt
  • couscous
  • rice vinegar
  • sugar
  • chili flakes
  • jasmine rice

Prep Sunday · ~40 min

Prep plan

Do these once, together, on Sunday. Then weeknight cooking is just heat, sear, and finish.

  1. Chop; hold half for the tacos later in the week.for Sheet-Pan Harissa Chicken
  2. Batons; pack into the brine Sunday. Keeps all week.for Quick-Pickled Carrots
  3. Char and blitz into sauce; keep a few raw for garnish.for Seared Salmon, Charred-Scallion Sauce
  4. Boil Sunday; smash-and-roast day-of in 15 min.for Lemony Smashed Potatoes
  5. Batons; pack into the brine Sunday. Keeps all week.for Quick-Pickled Carrots