Life is bad in a house where the hen crows and the cock cackles. (Slovenian proverb) To stop this from happening in your house, we recommend this SUNDAY dinner: Chicken soup with noodles Roast chicken Buckwheat porridge (millet porridge) Cucumber salad with pumpkin seed oil Cake made with turnips or pumpkins; Biba There's no lunch without potatoes. (Popular saying) To get the week off to a nice start, spoil yourself with this menu on a MONDAY: Potato soup with milk Noodles with curd cheese or poppy seeds Eat greens instead of meat, and drink wine instead of water! (Popular saying) On TUESDAYS, cook this tasty, healthy meat-free meal: Mushroom soup Herb noodles (sweet and sour) or Shredded dumplings with poppy seeds Hunger makes beans from the field taste sweeter. (Slovenian proverb) On WEDNESDAYS, savour legumes in these dishes: Brawn with pumpkin seed oil and onions, or Bean soup with sour cream Potato dumplings with poppy seeds Compote of dried fruit Greens on their own won't satisfy your hunger. (Popular saying) For a balanced meal, add meat to your vegetables on THURSDAYS. Szegedin goulash Potato purée Fritters (beignets) It's easy to sing the praises of fasting when your belly is full. (Popular saying)

Fans of vegetarian food can look forward to FRIDAYS: Buckwheat soup Dödöli Mixed salad Bread isn't just made with flour - you need hands as well. (Slovenian proverb) SATURDAY is pig-slaughtering day, so the menu is: Bujta Repa Buckwheat sausages Home-made bread A variety of strudels Typical dishes from the region: 1. Milk soup with smoked meat 2. Sour suckling pig soup 3. Sweet white cabbage and Vrtanek (yeast ring cake) 4. Prekmurje Bogrács (stew) with game meat 5. Grammelpogatscherl (crackling rissoles) 6. Maize dumplings 7. Gibice 8. Prekmurska Gibanica 9. Posolanka