The Weekly Table

THE WEEKLY TABLE — Seven days. Seven plates. One week, thought through.

A week has seven dinners in it. That's all. Seven.

Put like that it sounds manageable — and it is, right up until Wednesday, when the plan you made on Sunday turns out to have been written by an optimist, there's nothing in, and everyone is hungry.

This is a planner built for the whole week, not just the good bit of it.

At 120 pages it's the deepest planner we make: twenty weekly spreads, twenty grocery lists, your own repertoire written down at last — and three dishes from around the world, written out in full.

WHAT'S INSIDE — 120 hyperlinked pages in four parts

PART ONE · THE TABLE (fill this in once; every week afterwards gets easier)

• The Seven-Plate Method — seven dinners, but not seven equal efforts. One anchor, one easy, one repeat, one batch, one new, one generous, and one night deliberately left open.
• Your Repertoire — everything you can already cook, written down. Not aspire to cook. Can cook.
• Anchor Nights · Theme Nights · Cook Once, Eat Twice
• Who's Eating · Allergies & Dislikes · Standing Staples · In Season · The Sunday Set-Up · Portions · The Freezer Shelf · Meals That Travel · Feeding Other People

PART TWO · THE WEEK

• Twenty weekly spreads. Left page: seven days, three meals, an effort level beside every dinner. Right page: what to prep, what needs using up, and — crucially — what actually happened to the plan.
• The Leftovers Ledger · Week in Review · The Month at a Glance · What We Ate Most

PART THREE · THE SHOP

• Twenty grocery lists — built from the plan, never from hope
• Staples Checklist · Price Notes · Where Things Are Kept · Storage & Keeping
• The Waste Log — an uncomfortable page, and it will change your shopping faster than any budget
• The Online Basket

PART FOUR · THE KITCHEN

• 14 recipe cards for your own dishes
• THE WORLD KITCHEN — three complete recipes, written out in full:

★ SHAKSHUKA (Tunisia & Israel) — eggs poached in a spiced tomato and pepper stew, eaten straight from the pan ★ CHICKEN ADOBO (the Philippines) — braised in vinegar, soy, garlic and bay. Genuinely better as a leftover than as a dinner. ★ RIBOLLITA (Tuscany) — the bread-and-bean soup made today and eaten tomorrow, because that is the dish

Every recipe gives metric and imperial measurements, so it works wherever your kitchen is.

FULLY HYPERLINKED Tap any contents entry to jump. Tap any recipe in the index to open it. The Arwign wordmark in every footer brings you home.

WHY UNDATED MATTERS — read this bit Most weekly meal planners are dated. That means you buy another one next year, and the year after that, forever. This one is undated. Start on any week of any year, skip a fortnight, come back in March. It never expires and you never repurchase.

WORKS WITH GoodNotes, Notability, Noteshelf, Xodo, Samsung Notes and any PDF annotation app, on iPad and Android tablets. Also lovely printed.

INSTANT DIGITAL DOWNLOAD

• No physical item will be shipped
• For personal use only

A plan that only survives a good week is not a plan.

— Arwign Planners