![]() ![]() Fill in any days you’ll eat away from home The point of the meal plan is to plan ahead until the next time you go to the store so you’re not scrambling for dinner every night or panicking about what you’ll bring for lunch at work the next day. If you know you’ll be going to the store twice a week, then just plan for the days in between. I highly suggest choosing a day to grocery shop every week, as then you’ll know that day is your “grocery day” and you can plan around it. We always shop on Friday evenings (yup, that’s what we do on Friday nights) so our meal planning week runs Friday to the following Thursday. This can be done on the back of a spare piece of paper, or you can download my free How to Create a Weekly Meal Plan Guide for the exact template we use each and every week, plus a 12-page guide to how to get started. This is simply a calendar of the week with boxes for each meal occasion, like breakfast, lunch, snack, and dinner. The first step is to create your weekly meal planning grid. Create your weekly meal planning grid and fill out the days of the week You CAN make, shop, and stick to a weekly meal plan with nothing more than pen and paper. You likely already know the benefits of adopting a meal planning habit (it’s sustainable!) but you don’t know where to start. If this rings true to you, I’m here to tell you there’s another way. Finding sad, rotten food in the back of your refrigerator because you forgot it was there (you never had a plan for when to eat it).Buying a week’s worth of groceries only to end up eating out three times and never once bringing your lunch to work.Going to the grocery store and buying what sounds good only to come home with five random things that do not equal a meal.In fact, one month we spent over $300 on work lunches alone (thanks to San Francisco cost of living…and poor meal planning skills). We grocery shopped sporadically, ate out more often than I’d like to admit, and wondered where all of our spending money went at the end of the month. Sound familiar? My family lived this life for YEARS. Picture this: you get home from work at the end of a long day after spending $12 on a salad because you forgot to pack your lunch, and there’s nothing in the refrigerator to eat. UPDATE: This article was originally posted in January 2019 and was updated in January 2021 with new photos and information. Download our FREE meal planning template guide! ![]() Want to start meal planning but not sure where to start? This simple step-by-step guide shows you how to create, shop from, and stick to a weekly meal plan. ![]()
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