

- #EDITABLE WEEKLY MEAL PLANNER TEMPLATE HOW TO#
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#EDITABLE WEEKLY MEAL PLANNER TEMPLATE FREE#
The Free Monthly Meal Planner for Excel has four tabs that make it the ultimate in meal planning, as it offers four sections for managing meal plans, ingredients, recipes and shopping lists. This feature is especially useful for busy families to ensure that they don’t forget any ingredient in the grocery and that they eat a good, hearty meal together. Meanwhile, Excel automatically compiles this into a weekly grocery list. With this template, you can input a month’s worth of meals and ingredients. The Free Monthly Meal Planner for Excel is a great template to provide you ease of use. Considering that meals are one of the most important times that you can have with your family seated in one table to dine and discuss a healthy, trusty meal planner is a must. Sometimes, so much so that they tend to not eat together as a family at all. With the free printable meal planner as a guide, you've got an almost-fool proof system for a cheaper, healthier, less wasteful diet.Without a meal plan, most families would just resort to fast food and take outs. Ordering online for pickup is usually free (or super cheap), and it ends up saving sooo much money in the long run. It's habit, and it's good marketing, but it's not good budgeting. Ice cream (my weakness), junky snacks, extra food that I won't eat, and things that I just don't need always seem to find their way into my cart. I don't know about you, but particularly when I'm not meal prepping, I'm such a sucker for extras at the grocery store. I first heard Milena Ciciotti talking about how she and her husband always order on Instacart, which actually saves them money, and thought it was genius. We both enjoy cooking but don't want to have to do a big meal every night, so making things that reheat well and taste good a couple days late is a big win.Īfter picking those recipes, we'll schedule them into the meal planner, write down our groceries, and THEN - this hack literally changed the way I meal prep and buy food - we order everything for online pickup. For portion reference, I meal prep with my boyfriend, and we usually pick 3 recipes that we want to eat that week for lunch/dinner (lunch is usually leftovers). Once a week, usually on the weekend, I'll sit down with my computer and open up Pinterest.
#EDITABLE WEEKLY MEAL PLANNER TEMPLATE DOWNLOAD#
As you can tell, the free download has sections for every day of the week, as well as a spot for a grocery list where you can write everything down.

When it comes to using the meal planner printable, things are pretty straightforward. This is saving me more money than ever & helping me eat healthy and stop wasting food.
#EDITABLE WEEKLY MEAL PLANNER TEMPLATE UPDATE#
Not only am I dropping this totally free printable meal planner for you, but I'm also going to give you my entire update meal prep strategy. You can either print out the free meal planner every week, or for a more sustainable option, get it laminated at Staples or Office Depot to just wipe + reuse with dry erase markers! I love having my grocery list right next to my meal planner - it just makes it SO simple to write down what I need for each recipe, and I never forget anything. I've laid it out with a spot for notes on each day, as well as a separate section for shopping items. This meal planner printable is free, simple, easy, and super cute (what more could you want?!). Both my food costs + stress levels skyrocketed when I stopped meal prepping, so I've been very focused on rebuilding the habit in my life.

#EDITABLE WEEKLY MEAL PLANNER TEMPLATE HOW TO#
As some of you may remember from my post on How to Start Meal Prepping, I'm a huge fan of meal planning and prepping - in fact, it saved my life as a broke student.īut in quarantine, I fell out of the pattern of meal prepping, and man did I pay for it. I am SO freaking excited to show you this printable meal planner.
