Weekly meal plan with grocery list

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General meal ideas for a North Indian vegetarian kitchen where eggs are fine and the children dislike bitter gourd. Not medical diet advice. Roti, rice, and curd are staples and can appear daily. Named dishes appear at most twice, and the second time is a leftover. No prices are stated. I cannot tell whether this list stays inside ₹3,500. Total it at the shop. If it is over, use the tighter version at the end.

Weekday dinners are planned for about 30 minutes and assume the Sunday chopping and boiled potatoes are done. Saturday cooking can take longer.

1. Meals

| Day | Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner |
| Monday | Vegetable poha | Chana dal, rice, cucumber | Masala omelette and roti |
| Tuesday | Besan chilla and curd | Leftover chana dal and roti | Aloo matar and roti |
| Wednesday | Suji upma | Leftover aloo matar and rice | Moong dal and rice |
| Thursday | Egg bhurji and roti | Leftover moong dal, rice, carrot | Paneer bhurji and roti |
| Friday | Vegetable poha | Curd rice and cucumber | Carrot, beans, and peas with roti |
| Saturday | Aloo paratha and curd | Kabuli chana and rice | Vegetable pulao and raita |
| Sunday | Dalia with milk and banana | Rajma and rice | Leftover rajma and roti |

Snacks: banana; roasted chana with a little jaggery.

2. Grocery, planning quantities for 2 adults and 2 children, adjusted to what you already have

Vegetables: onion 1.5 kg, tomato 1 kg, potato 2 kg, peas 500 g, carrot 500 g, beans 250 g, cucumber 500 g, ginger 100 g, green chilli 100 g, coriander 2 bunches, lemon 4. No bitter gourd.

Fruits: banana 12, plus 1 kg of a seasonal fruit the children already eat.

Dairy and eggs: milk 5 litres, curd 1 kg or make it from the milk, paneer 250 g, eggs 10.

Grains and pulses: atta 2.5 kg, rice 2 kg, poha 500 g, suji 500 g, besan 300 g, dalia 400 g, chana dal 400 g, moong dal 400 g, rajma 300 g, kabuli chana 300 g.

Spices: buy only what is missing from salt, turmeric, cumin, mustard seed, red chilli, garam masala, and hing.

Other: cooking oil if you are low, roasted chana 250 g, jaggery 200 g.

Also do two short soaks that are not part of Sunday's 30 minutes: kabuli chana on Friday night for Saturday, rajma on Saturday night for Sunday.

3. Sunday prep, 30 minutes
- Chop and box onion, tomato, ginger, and coriander.
- Put potatoes on to boil for aloo matar and Saturday's paratha.
- Wash the greens and the cucumber.
- Start curd if you need it.
Stop when 30 minutes are up, even if the potatoes need a few more minutes on the stove with you elsewhere. Do not start a second dish.

Tighter-budget version: remove paneer, and make Thursday dinner besan chilla with curd. That uses the chilla a second time, which is the limit, and it does not add a third serving of moong dal. Make Saturday dinner the leftover kabuli chana instead of pulao. Drop the roasted chana and keep banana as the snack. Re-total at the shop. Still no prices from me.