Free companion guides · 5-Ingredient Cooking for Two

The Bonus Vault

Three printable guides that pick up where the book leaves off — the pantry that makes five ingredients enough, the chart that answers “there’s nothing to eat”, and twelve date-night menus with the timings already worked out.

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3PDF guides
48Pages
12Date-night menus
101Recipes referenced
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Guide 01 · 15 pages The 5-Ingredient Pantry Blueprint, cover The printable one-trip shopping list inside the guide

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The 5-Ingredient
Pantry Blueprint

Build the 22-item pantry that turns five ingredients into a hundred dinners.

Five ingredients only works because of what is already on your shelf. This guide is that shelf, written out: twenty-two items across three tiers, what each one actually does, and which recipes in the book it unlocks.

Tier One costs about $55 and most of it lasts a year. After that, every recipe in 5-Ingredient Cooking for Two is within reach of a five-item shopping list.

  • The Essential EightThe non-negotiables, with what to buy and how long it keeps
  • The emulsion formula3 : 1 : 1 — and you never buy bottled dressing again
  • The storage mapWhich zone each item belongs in, and the three things everyone stores wrong
  • The 60-minute resetOne hour, five steps, a pantry that finally makes sense
  • A printable shopping listTiered and priced, so it is genuinely one trip
  • Five pantry dinnersCook tonight without buying anything at all

Constraint is freedom. When you limit yourself to five ingredients, you stop overthinking and start tasting.

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Guide 02 · 15 pages The Emergency Dinner Matrix, cover The master matrix chart inside the guide

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The Emergency
Dinner Matrix

What to cook when the fridge looks empty and it is already 7:14 PM.

Half an onion, four eggs, a bag of something green and a heel of Parmesan. Your brain reports nothing to eat and reaches for your phone. Your brain is wrong — that is two dinners.

The gap is never ingredients. It is decision fatigue. So this guide removes the deciding: find the one thing you definitely have, read across, cook.

  • The master matrix19 “you have this → cook that” routes, pointing at real recipes
  • The substitution bible18 swaps for the ingredient you are missing right now
  • The 15-minute listEvery recipe in the book that beats a delivery driver
  • The use-it-up indexWhat to do with the half-thing in the door before it turns
  • The flavour rescue cardSplit sauce, overcooked meat, thin soup — fixed in ninety seconds
  • A fridge card to cut outThe whole guide in one glance, on a magnet

The meal you actually cook beats the meal you meant to cook. Every single time.

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Guide 03 · 18 pages Date Night In, cover Menu cards inside the Date Night In guide

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Date Night In

Twelve complete menus, the timings, the playlist — and who does what.

Restaurants sell you the meal. This sells you the evening: three courses drawn straight from the book, a drink, a playlist, and the one technique that makes each menu work.

It also settles the argument every home date night produces — two people orbiting one pan — by naming the two roles before anyone turns on the heat.

  • Twelve full menusFrom The Midweek Rescue to The Anniversary, about $25–$40 for two
  • The 90-minute timelineMinute by minute, split between the Lead and the Second
  • The five-minute tableFive things, no shopping, and the warm-plate trick
  • Pairing without pretendingFour rules instead of a wine course — including the no-alcohol version
  • Twelve conversation cardsCut them out for the nights the talking runs dry
  • A date-night logPrintable. In two years it is the best thing in the drawer.

The best date nights happen at home. No one is rushing you to turn the table.

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