A week for a shared kitchen and separate shopping.

Nobody wants a shared menu with people they only split rent with. Each night here is one person's own dish, sized for them, not for the whole flat.

Written and edited by Duarte Cruz, Co-founder and editorUpdated 12 September 2026

The week

Each row is one person's dinner. Small portions, short cooks, no shared shop.

Roommate 1
Steak sandwich
- 15 min
- 2 portions
- 40 g protein / portion
A steak sandwich sized for one or two, done in fifteen minutes with a short shopping list.
Ingredients & method
Roommate 2
Pasta with tuna
- 25 min
- 3 portions
- 39 g protein / portion
A pantry-and-tin pasta. No need to coordinate with anyone else's shopping.
Ingredients & method
Roommate 3
Veal steaks
- 20 min
- 2 portions
- 70 g protein / portion
A single pan, two portions, no leftovers to negotiate over.
Ingredients & method
Roommate 1
Bifanas (pork steaks in a roll)
- 15 min
- 3 portions
- 35 g protein / portion
Fifteen minutes, one pan, one person's own dinner.
Ingredients & method
Roommate 2
Grilled burger
- 20 min
- 3 portions
- 52 g protein / portion
A burger for whoever is cooking, without needing the grill or the kitchen for long.
Ingredients & method
Roommate 3
Sandwiches with Iberian ham, rocket and mozzarella
- 5 min
- 2 portions
- 30 g protein / portion
Five minutes, no cooking at all, for a night nobody feels like using the stove.
Ingredients & method
Roommate 1
Burger in artisan bread or bolo do caco (Madeiran flatbread)
- 15 min
- 3 portions
- 45 g protein / portion
Another quick one, sized small enough not to leave a pile of someone else's leftovers in the shared fridge.
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

A flatshare is not a family. Most nights, meal planning means each person cooking a quick dinner in a kitchen they happen to share, with their own ingredients, on their own schedule.

So this week is not one plan for four people. It is four short ones. Every dish is sized for one or two portions, quick enough that it is not a project, and easy to shop for without a shared list.

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