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My wife and I find it easier to plan a menu every week. Makes shopping easier and dinner less of a guessing game. Also, when in doubt, buns and a salad kit. Never fails. The buns can be anything. Burgers? Cool! Regular or mushroom Swiss? How about chicken patties/chicken burgers? Meatball Marinara sandwiches? Whatever you want, brother.
I'm honestly surprised that more people don't come up with a weekday menu over the weekend. It can be simple, like you mentioned buns plus whatever. Simple meat, grain, veg is easy (frozen fish or fried tofu, rice/quinoa, and some broccoli or Brussels).
When all else fails... Breakfast tacos for dinner will do. Prefer egg and sausage, but I'll settle for egg and avocado with some hot sauce.
I guess Im at a loss on how else to do it? Like I only go grocery shopping ~once a week so i have to plan everything.
I think the folks that don't plan meals just kind of buy ingredients sporadically and hope for the best. Sometimes it works. Sometimes there's just a bunch of mismatched items. Food tends to get wasted as stuff goes bad before it's eaten.
Source: my partner was like this before we moved in together