Week of 28 September – 4 October

YKGrub · Seven days · One short Sunday session · No new recipes

Seven days on one short Sunday session. No new recipes — every dinner is a proven one from the corpus, because the last two weeks and the brunch already spent the budget for new technique.

The prep guide is the working document →

The week

DayDinnerLunchStarch
Mon 28Brunch leftovers — reheated hash, celery salad, labnehThe same, coldPotato
Tue 29Za’atar salmon, tomato-feta farroFarro bowl, chickpeas, kale, lemon-tahiniFarro
Wed 30Ginger-garlic tofu stir-fry, riceFarro bowl, roasted broccoli, egg, ginger-soyRice
Thu 1Chana dal with the snake gourd in place of lauki, riceLeftover stir-fry with kaleRice
Fri 2Mahi-mahi in parchment, pickled peppersDal with greensNone
Sat 3Minimalist mussels, sourdough, big saladOpenBread
Sun 4Use-up slotOpenWhatever is left

Leila’s numbers

Around 1,600 cal a day. The lunch bowls land near 500 with an egg or tinned fish on top; dinners run 450–550. One starchy carb a day except Monday, which carries the brunch potatoes. Protein is the thing to watch mid-week — the tofu and dal days are the light ones, so an extra egg at lunch on Wednesday and Thursday is the lever.

Greens, stated plainly

Massaged kale in four lunch bowls, cabbage and bok choy in the stir-fry, chard or spinach folded into the dal, a full salad on Saturday. Two bunches of kale and two of chard on the list.

Scale