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Sorted by store, then by aisle

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Type an item and the store picks itself. Items sort into walking order so you're not doubling back.

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No chain publishes floor plans, so these defaults follow how each store format is built — discount banners start with produce at the door; Costco is a warehouse where fresh sits in the cold room at the back. Close, but not your exact store. Walk it once, fix the order here, and yours wins permanently.

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Khushi
Riya
Gujarati, vegetarian, built around Dad

The family table

Traditional food, adjusted: less jaggery, lower-GI grains, protein pushed into dishes that already exist rather than bolted on.

Cooking ideas, not medical advice. Dad's actual limits on sodium, carbs and portion size should come from his doctor or a registered dietitian, and this doesn't replace his medication. Use these as recipes to cook from, not a treatment plan.
Vegetarian — everyone
Chicken — you & the girls
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Six people, four diets, one pot

Cook once

The rest of this site gives everyone their own list. That was the wrong answer — it means four pots on a Tuesday. This is the fix.

The rule: whatever excludes someone goes in LAST
  1. Cook the base plain. Grain, dal, vegetables, turmeric. No salt, no sugar, no heat.
  2. Riya exits before salt. Her kidneys set the first limit, so she comes out first.
  3. Dad exits before jaggery — and his grain gets swapped to millet or bajra.
  4. Khushi and Mummy exit before chilli.
  5. Chicken never enters the main pot. Small separate pan, added at the plate.
Two pots maximum, ever. The main pot, plus one small pan for chicken or Dad's grain.
Load it and leave

Slow cooker

Set it before work, dinner is done before the evening starts. Same divert logic — the salt and heat go in at the end, so one pot still feeds everyone.

Three rules that make it work. Salt goes in at the end, never the start — it toughens bean skins over eight hours. Spice powders go in at the end too; long heat flattens them. And brown your onion base in a pan first, because a slow cooker cannot brown anything.
Thirty minutes, start to table

Instant Pot

And the trick that solves your actual problem: pot-in-pot.

Pot-in-pot — two meals, one cycle

Riya's unsalted food goes in a small steel bowl on a trivet, stacked above the family's dal. Both cook in the same cycle. Hers never touches salt or spice, and you never cooked twice.

TOP BOWLRiya — plain khichdi, no salt
TRIVETkeeps her bowl above the liquid
BASEFamily dal, water, turmeric
Look for the stacked marker on the recipes below — those are the pot-in-pot ones.
Natural release for anything with dal in it. Quick release sprays starchy foam through the valve. And rice under pressure needs a 1:1 water ratio, not the 1:2 you'd use on the stove.
What's fine to buy, and how to tell

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Buy the boring, cook the flavour. There's no prize for making everything from scratch on a Tuesday.

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