Dinner Menu

Week of September 3, 2026
Shrimp Fajitas with Avocado-Lime Crema & Cilantro-Lime Rice⏰ 40 min✓ Cooked
Shrimp Fajitas with Avocado-Lime Crema & Cilantro-Lime Rice
🍽 Serves 4📊 Easy
Chicken Piccata with Roasted Lemon Asparagus⏰ 45 min✓ Cooked
Chicken Piccata with Roasted Lemon Asparagus
🍽 Serves 4📊 Easy
Skillet New York Strip with Smashed Potatoes & Blistered Peppers⏰ 1 hr 25 min
Skillet New York Strip with Smashed Potatoes & Blistered Peppers
🍽 Serves 4📊 Moderate — the long night of the week
Penne alla Vodka with Lemon-Arugula Salad⏰ 40 min
Penne alla Vodka with Lemon-Arugula Salad
🍽 Serves 4📊 Easy
Shopping List

Produce

  • Bell peppers, mix of red, yellow and green6 total — 3 for fajita night, 3 for steak night
  • yellow onion2 — 1 large for fajita night, 1 small for pasta night
  • lime4 — crema, cilantro-lime rice (juice AND zest), deglazing the shrimp pan, and wedges for the table
  • Avocado, large Hass1 — on sale $0.97 (fajita night crema)
  • Cilantro, fresh whole bunch1 large bunch — fajita night only (the crema and the rice)
  • lemon4 — 2 for piccata, 1 for the arugula salad, 1 for steak night (half over the peppers, a tsp in the garlic butter)
  • asparagus1.5 lbs (piccata night)
  • baby gold potatoes2 lbs, similar sizes (steak night)
  • Parsley, fresh flat-leaf bunch1 bunch — piccata sauce and the steak butter
  • Thyme, fresh1 package (steak butter)
  • Rosemary, fresh1 package (smashed potatoes)
  • Garlic, pre-peeled cloves1 bag — needed on 3 of the 4 nights
  • Apples, Cosmic Crisp (fresh, whole)in-season fruit slot — if out of season, sub Honeycrisp (on sale $1.27/lb) and flag it
  • Cantaloupe, H-E-B Season's Select "Sugar Rush" specialty melon (whole)the "fancy cantaloupe" — confirmed by Cam 2026-09-04
  • strawberriesweekly staple
  • blackberriesweekly staple
  • blueberriesweekly staple — jumbo on sale $3.97
  • raspberriesweekly staple
  • clementinesweekly staple
  • Pineapple, fresh wholeweekly staple — whole, not pre-cut
  • kiwiweekly staple
  • Bananas, looseweekly staple — 10, loose, not organic
  • Arugula, fresh — 10 oz total (2 containers)5 oz goes entirely into the pasta-night salad; the rest is the weekly staple green. Buy 2x 5 oz or one larger clamshell.

Meat & Seafood

  • Shrimp, large raw peeled and deveined (not cooked, not breaded)1.5 lbs. Gulf shrimp on sale $7.97 but TAIL-ON — look for peeled tail-off raw first. Search surfaces scallops and breaded/cooked/coconut shrimp first; the allergen backstop will NOT catch scallops. Verify the label says RAW.
  • Chicken breasts, boneless skinless whole (not pre-sliced)1.5 lbs / 2 large (piccata night)
  • New York strip steak, boneless, 1 to 1.25 inches thick2 steaks / about 1.5 lbs — on sale $7.99/lb
  • lunch meatweekly staple

Dairy & Eggs

  • Sour cream, 16 oz H-E-B Regular (pasteurized)the 8 oz is recorded out of stock and fails to add; only 1/3 cup is used
  • Oat milk, barista blend (not the regular/original oat milk)requested 2026-09-04 — barista/barista-edition formulation for steaming
  • eggsweekly staple
  • whole milkweekly staple
  • H-E-B Sweet Cream Salted Butter Sticks, 4 ctweekly staple — real butter, not Country Spread; separate from the unsalted above
  • Snack cheese (string cheese or Babybel)weekly staple
  • Greek yogurtweekly staple
  • shredded cheeseweekly staple
  • sliced cheeseweekly staple
  • heavy cream1 pint — 3/4 cup goes in the vodka sauce
  • Parmesan, block or wedge, at least 8 oz (not pre-grated)1 cup grated for the sauce (~3 oz), shavings for the salad, plus extra at the table

Pantry & Canned Goods

  • long-grain white rice1 bag (cilantro-lime rice)
  • capers1 small jar (piccata sauce)
  • tomato paste1 can, 6 oz — the whole can goes into the vodka sauce
  • Penne, REGULAR semolina — not whole wheat1 lb. Override the cached H-E-B Organics Whole Wheat Penne: whole wheat fights a sweet tomato-cream sauce and there is already a thumbs-down on record for whole wheat noodle texture.

Bread & Bakery

  • Flour tortillas, fajita size1 package of 8
  • H-E-B Split Top Honey Wheat Enriched Sliced Bread, 20 ozweekly staple — plain sliced bread, not a sourdough loaf
  • Nature's Own Life Wheat + Protein breadweekly staple — not Sola
  • Sola 15g Protein Everything Bagels, 12.4 ozweekly staple
  • H-E-B Bakery Plain Bagels, 4 ctweekly staple — the plain/normal bagels

Frozen

  • croissant bacon egg and cheese breakfast sandwichesfrom your Keep list

Other

  • Cheeriosfrom your Keep list
  • Teddy Grahams, Originalfrom your Keep list
  • individual mac and cheese cupsfrom your Keep list
  • dried mangofrom your Keep list
  • Bath color tablets (bath dropz)from your Keep list
  • Panty liners and regular thin padsfrom your Keep list
  • Sparkling water, unsweetenedweekly staple — brand and flavor your call at the cart
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Generated by Meal Planner · 2026-09-04