meal plans, built on overlap
Real weekly plans where the recipes share ingredients on purpose — so the shopping list gets shorter and less ends up in the trash.
Chipotle Chicken Avocado Melt, Chicken Tinga Tacos, Chipotle-Glazed Shrimp, and Tenderloin with Woodland Mushrooms
One can of chipotles in adobo ties all four recipes. Rotisserie chicken spans the melt and the tacos. Garlic, lime, and cilantro each run through three recipes.
Chicken Fried Rice, Sheet Pan Chicken Pot Pie, Cajun Shrimp Alfredo, and Swiss Steak
One rotisserie chicken does double duty — Monday's fried rice and Tuesday's pot pie. Onion runs through all four recipes. Celery, heavy cream, and chicken broth bridge the creamy pot pie to the Cajun pasta.
Chicken Parm Meatballs, Greek Sheet Pan, Scalloped Potatoes, and a Roast Chicken
Four dinners that share a surprisingly tight shopping list — panko and eggs anchor two meatball-style dishes, potatoes run through two more, and onion, garlic, and lemon tie everything together.
Steak, Shrimp, Chicken, and Salmon — One Lemon-and-Garlic Shopping List
Chopped chimichurri steak salad, shrimp scampi, honey lemon chicken, and pesto salmon — four very different dinners built around the same garlic, lemon, and parsley.
A Week of Global Flavors, One Surprisingly Tight Shopping List
Kenyan beef, a Nigerian omelet, Indian-style sloppy joes, and a zesty crab salad — four recipes from four continents with more ingredient overlap than you'd expect.
4 Classic Weeknight Dinners, One Smart Shopping List
Balsamic chicken, bruschetta pasta, honey mustard chicken, and a Greek sheet pan dinner — 4 recipes with serious ingredient overlap around garlic, dijon mustard, and balsamic vinegar.
from the kitchen
The thinking behind the extension — and how to plan this way yourself.
Why I Built Save Thyme: A Meal Planning Extension with a Specific Goal
I built Save Thyme because most meal planning misses the point. Here's the food waste problem that inspired it and how the extension solves it.
Read more → March 28, 2026How to Meal Plan to Reduce Food Waste
Most food waste happens because we buy ingredients for one recipe and never use the rest. Here's how to plan meals around overlapping ingredients.
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