A week that does not fight the picky eater.
Some nights the goal is not an adventurous new dish. It is dinner nobody argues about. This week sticks to plain, familiar food and leaves the experiments for another time.
The week
Plain, familiar dinners. Open any dish for the recipe.
- Monday
Spaghetti Carbonara
- 20 min
- 4 portions
- 28 g protein / portion
Pasta, egg, cheese, bacon. About as plain and familiar as dinner gets.
Ingredients & method - Tuesday
Grilled chicken fillets
- 20 min
- 4 portions
- 60 g protein / portion
Plain grilled chicken, no sauce to negotiate around.
Ingredients & method - Wednesday
Breaded chicken with tomato rice
- 35 min
- 4 portions
- 55 g protein / portion
Breaded chicken and rice, two things that show up on most picky-eater menus for a reason.
Ingredients & method - Thursday
Ham and cheese toastie
- 10 min
- 4 portions
- 24 g protein / portion
A ten-minute toastie for a night nobody needs a fight over dinner.
Ingredients & method - Friday
Chicken Parmigiana
- 40 min
- 4 portions
- 63 g protein / portion
Breaded chicken under tomato and cheese, a familiar shape most people already like.
Ingredients & method - Saturday
Oven-baked chicken thighs with lemon
- 50 min
- 4 portions
- 41 g protein / portion
Roast chicken thighs, plain enough that the lemon can be scraped off by anyone who wants it that way.
Ingredients & method - Sunday
Tuna sandwiches
- 10 min
- 4 portions
- 24 g protein / portion
A tuna sandwich, ten minutes, for an easy end to the week.
Ingredients & method
Cook times, portions and protein come from each recipe as written, and update with it. They are the author's figures, not lab measurements. A leftover night shows the reheat, not the original cook.
Photographs are AI illustrations of the dishes.
The idea
Every dish this week is something most people already know how to eat: pasta with a plain sauce, breaded chicken, a grilled fillet, a toastie. Nothing stewed with unfamiliar vegetables. Nothing that needs explaining before anyone will try it.
That is a starting point, not a guarantee. No list of recipes can promise a specific child or partner will eat a specific dinner. If the picky eater needs a smaller plate, the portion scaler handles that without changing everyone else's.
How PlanMyMeals works
Limits
No dish here is guaranteed to win over a specific picky eater. This is a plain, familiar starting week.
No nutrition advice beyond the protein per portion each recipe already carries. If someone needs a different plate size, the portion scaler adjusts it without changing what everyone else gets.
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