Try this meal planner and grocery shopping checklist and it will make grocery shopping so much easier.
Seriously guys, this organizational printable is a game changer. If I’m out when it’s time to start dinner, my hubby can easily see what he can start cooking for me. When I get home, I’ll put the list up on our fridge so that everyone can see what the meal plan is for the week. I take the list with me to the store and check it off as I go. I love that this grocery list is organized into categories because then I’m not running back and forth through the store because I forgot something from the dairy section that got shoved to the bottom of my list. Weekly meal plan templates take the stress out of cooking and grocery shopping.
Then I go through the meals for the week and write each ingredient into the correct category in the grocery list. I don’t like to fill my whole menu with new recipes because I tend to get overwhelmed and just order pizza. I’ll start with that and add a new recipe or two. I have a running list of meals that I love to make. Here’s how I use my menu planner and grocery shopping checklist:įirst, I fill in my meals for the week. You can print one out each week, add it to your home planning binder, or print out several (front and back) and bind them together in a meal planning notebook. Click Here to Download the Free Printable Meal Planner It even has a spot to plan special meals like birthdays, potlucks, or Holidays.
It has your weekly menu plan and grocery shopping checklist all on one simple page. To make meal planning simple, I have created this super practical and easy to use free printable. I would buy way too much food and still completely forget what I planned to make. I would wander through the grocery store trying to figure out what we were going to eat that week. In fact, when my husband and I first got married I was terrible at it. Meal planning has not always come naturally to me. This saves time (avoiding the dreaded 5:00 questions…”What’s for dinner?” “Mom, I’m hungry, can we eat dinner?”) and money (because you only buy what you’ll need for the week). If you’re trying to save money and live simply, one of the biggest ways to cut expenses is by cooking at home and planning meals. This Free Printable Menu Planner with a Grocery Shopping List is the MOST practical Meal Planner and Grocery List. Also feel free to PM me if you need help.Y’all, I’m not joking. So take C3 * E2 in the grocery list tab, where E2 is the amount of meals, and C3 is the amount of the first ingredient (then drag the formula down). I have a running list of things to add to the next version, and I'll add this to the list! As you see it's designed for personal use, because I don't know who could eat 50 meatball meals in one week!! (: A temporary solution could be only selecting Chicken Alfredo then create a column that multiplies those ingredients by a cell that is dynamic. Thank you! So cool that you run a meal prep business. I run a meal prep business and if this had a way of inputting how many orders of each meal I got to then generate a list of the ingredients needed, would this be possible? Say I got 10 orders of Chicken Alfredo and 50 orders of Meatballs or whatever, instead of going onto the graph of the weekdays, would there be a way to just make a list like the following, regardless of the weekday to then generate the necessary list:Chicken alfredo- 10