SHOPPING LIST: Lighter French Onion Soup with Cheese Toast (1 portion) Meal Plan 5, Saturday lunch (vegetarian) [ ] 2 large onions (about 300 g) [ ] 1 head of garlic (you need 1 clove) [ ] Reduced-salt vegetable stock cubes (you need 1 cube) [ ] Wholemeal bread (2 slices) [ ] 20 g mature Cheddar cheese [ ] Dried thyme (1/2 tsp) [ ] Olive oil (1 tsp) [ ] Black pepper Cupboard check: garlic, stock cubes, thyme, olive oil and pepper are probably already at home. Tip: browning the onions slowly takes about 25 minutes and gives the soup its flavour.