Garden Meal Plan & Shopping List
Pick recipes or press Suggest a plan, set people and days, and get a combined shopping list with nutrition per person per day.
Planning meals around what the garden is giving you is half the point of growing food, and the other half is not buying the same onion three times. This planner takes the 50 recipes on this site, lets you pick the ones you want (or suggests a week), scales every recipe to the number of people and days, and combines all of the ingredients into one shopping list. It also gives the average nutrition per person per day for what you picked, and links to a grow guide for each crop on the list.
Garden Meal Plan & Shopping List
Set the people and days, then press Suggest a plan, or tick recipes and set how many serves of each. Choose a crop under “Plan around” if you have a glut, and the suggestion picks recipes that use it first.
Your plan: —
Serves per person per day: —
Average nutrition per person per day: —
Shopping list: —
Full guide, more detail, and a printable version at https://hollyshomestead.com.au/tools/garden-meal-plan-shopping-list.html
How It’s Worked Out
Every recipe on the site is written for a set number of serves. Each one you pick is scaled by the number of serves you ask for divided by the recipe’s own serves, so six serves from a four-serve recipe uses one and a half times everything. The ingredients from every recipe are then added together by name: onions across all the recipes become one line, and so on. Weights are added as weights, volumes as volumes (teaspoons, tablespoons and cups are converted to millilitres) and whole items as counts, and counts are rounded up because you cannot buy half an onion. Water, optional ingredients and “to taste” seasonings are left out.
Nutrition is the per-serve estimate from each recipe page, multiplied by the serves you chose, then divided by the people and days. It is an average of the recipes in the plan, not dietary advice. A real day of eating includes more than these recipes, and individual needs vary a lot.
Making the Plan Work
Cook once and eat twice: the planner suggests more serves than one meal needs for dishes that freeze well, so some dinners become next week’s lunches. Check the pantry section before you shop, since flour, oil and spices are on the list in the amounts the recipes need, not what you have left. If you are planning around a glut, the glut rescue planner shows what to do with the rest.