Week of May 4.
Mostly settled.

Five dinners pinned, two open spots, one grocery run on Sunday afternoon. Tuesday is doing some work for Wednesday.

Household Ramirez · family of 4

Cadence Mon → Sun · renews Sunday

Shared with 3 cooks

MR JL EM

Gusto · thinking out loud

Your weekly chef

"I've routed Monday's roast chicken into Tuesday's tacos. You'll have nothing to do Tuesday but reheat. Thursday is open — soccer ends at seven, so something fast. May I suggest the miso butter mushrooms you keep saving and not making?

The week

Mon → Sun. Settled by Sunday.

Each square is a dinner. Tap a gap to fill it, drag dishes to swap nights, or let Gusto patch the holes for you.

Mon 4 May

All home

Cook & multiply ~ 1h 20m

Poulet rôti aux herbes

Roasted carrots MR Marisol

Recipe ready · serves 6

Tue 5 today

Tonight

↺ From Monday ~ 25m

Chicken tacos al carbón

Lime crema · pickled onion JL Jamie

Uses Mon's roast

Wed 6 May

Soccer 5–7

↻ House favorite ~ 30m

Sheet-pan gnocchi & blistered tomato

Kid-approved EM Eli

4× cooked · 25 min

Thu 7 May

Soccer · 7p

What's Thursday?

Fri 8 May

Date night

Eating out

No dinner needed at home

Sat 9 May

6 guests

Dinner party 3 courses

Saturday Supper · burrata, coq au vin, tarte tatin

6 guests MRJL co-hosts

→ Linked party Open

Sun 10 May

All home

Sunday is yours.
Cook something slow?

Mon → Tue · roast chicken

Gusto's pick waiting

Open · slow Sunday?

One run · settles the week

The grocery list, consolidated.

Across all five planned dinners. Sorted by aisle, dedupe'd against your pantry, split between whoever's actually shopping.

Sunday afternoon · one trip

Whole Foods + the corner bodega

28 items · 19 to buy · 9 already home in your pantry

$87.40 Saved $31 — 9 pantry items skipped

Splitting the run MRMarisol · Whole Foods JLJamie · bodega & produce

Produce 7 items

Carrots, 1 bunch Mon

Limes, 4 Tue

Red onion, 2 Tue/Sat

Cherry tomatoes, pint Wed

Garlic in pantry

Lemons in pantry

Figs, 1 pint Sat · party

Butcher 3 items

Whole chicken, 4–5 lb Mon → Tue

Burrata, 1 ball Sat · party

Bone-in chicken thighs, 6 Sat · party

Pantry & dry 9 items

Gnocchi, 2 packs Wed

Corn tortillas, 12 Tue

Olive oil in pantry

Sea salt · pepper in pantry

Herbes de Provence in pantry

Cumin · paprika in pantry

All-purpose flour in pantry

Hot honey, small jar Sat · party

Apples, 4 (tarte tatin) Sat · party

9 of 28 already in your pantry

The household.

Who's here, what they won't eat, who's cooking.

Marisol

You· cooks weeknights

Jamie

partner · cooks Tuesdays + grocery runs

Eli, 12

picky · learning to cook

No mushrooms

Sienna, 8

peanut allergy

Nut-free

This week's wrinkles

Wed

Soccer practice 5–7p · home by 7:15

Kids · 30m max

Thu

Sienna at grandma's · only 3 eating

Mushrooms OK

Fri

Date night · sitter at 6:30

No dinner needed

At a glance

How the week balances out.

A weekly plan should feel inevitable, not effortful. Here's the rhythm Gusto built.

Cuisine balance 5 nights · varied

French Veg-fwd Fish Misc

No dish repeats. Two French nights are different French nights.

Who's cooking 3 cooks · split fair

MRMarisol 3 nights

JLJamie 2 nights

EMEli 1 night

Pantry pull-through 9 items · already home Of 28 ingredients across the week, you'll only buy 19. Olive oil and herbs you have, again.

32% from pantry $31 saved

Repeats from your library 2 standards · regulars

Poulet rôti

3rd time this month

📌 pinned

Sheet-pan gnocchi

4× cooked · house favorite