The couple that eats together, stays together.
This Is What Ina and Jeffrey Garten Eat for Lunch Every Day
Published on Jun. 06, 2025
Ina Garten is a domestic goddess for good reason. For starters, her signature catchphrases (“store-bought is fine” and “how easy is that”) echo in the heads of so many home chefs as they pull off an exciting recipe. She knows exactly how to help you both elevate and simplify your next dinner party. It’s why fans are obsessed with her recipes—like her beef bourguignon and pork tenderloin.
But as so often happens with celebrity chefs, the longer they stay in the spotlight, the more we become interested in what they eat on a daily basis. Sure, I can make Ina’s brownie pudding to my heart’s content, but is that the dessert that she is eating on repeat? (Turns out it’s the humble French apple tart!) So when I found out that Ina and Jeffrey eat the same thing together for lunch every day, I just about swooned. Especially because it’s one of my favorite lunch options, too!
What do Ina and Jeffrey Garten eat for lunch together every day?
For the uninitiated, Ina and Jeffrey Garten got married in 1968. If you don’t want to do the math (I never do!), that means they have been married for an astonishing 56 years. And apparently, they eat soup together every day for lunch! Makes sense, because soup is just the perfect lunch option—and it’s so versatile. She revealed this lunch date menu on an episode of the Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus podcast.
“Jeffrey and I always have soup, which is so easy because I can make a lot of soup and leave it in the freezer,” she told Julia.
It looks like both Ina Garten and I are big fans of batch-preparing soup and freezing it for later. In fact, Ina’s favorite comfort meal is butternut squash soup. I like to imagine her sitting down to enjoy a nice big bowl of soup with some crusty bread, a glass of wine and, of course, Jeffrey!
If you want to learn more about Ina and Jeffrey and somehow haven’t read Ina’s memoir yet, I can’t recommend it enough. Listen to the audiobook version if you can, because she narrates it!
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