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November 14, 2017

Free Meal Planning Worksheets

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Get organized and lose the “what’s for dinner” stress! Grab a free meal planning worksheet that puts your grocery list and menu planning all in one place.
Meal Planning Worksheet

Meal planning is a gift that keeps on giving. Spending ten minutes on it at the beginning of the week means no more 5:30 “what’s-for-dinner??” angst.

A crucial step in meal planning is food shopping. I make my week’s dinner menus and grocery list at the same time so I can avoid last minute trips to the store where I run in for garlic and come out with $150 worth of other stuff. (And completely forget the garlic. Sound familiar?)

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I’ve used other grocery list templates but found myself making separate columns for multiple stores and scribbling my meal plan at the bottom. 

I typically shop at two stores, and I like having the week’s dinners right on my grocery list so I can be sure I’ve got everything I need. So I asked my husband to design me a sheet that fits the way I do meal planning. He also designed a sheet for shopping at one store.

Here’s my worksheet at the grocery store with me…

Meal Planning Worksheet

Want a copy? Download this sheet if you shop at one store:

Get the sheet for 1 store

Download this sheet if you shop at two stores:

Get the sheet for 2 stores

 

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Free Meal Planning & Grocery List Worksheet

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  1. Tracy says

    September 24, 2014 at 2:33 am

    I love Plan to Eat, an app/website that I use to save recipes from the web (or type in). You can drag recipes you have saved into a calendar (say Monday lunch, or next Tues breakfast), then it automatically populates a shopping list. There are tons of little helpful features. It has really, really made menu planning an easier task for me.

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    • Sally says

      September 24, 2014 at 11:35 am

      Tracy–I’ve heard other people rave about Plan to Eat and have tried it out myself as well. But I always come back to paper. I don’t even keep an online calendar. I’m stuck in the stone age I guess. ๐Ÿ™‚ Glad you found a system that works well for you!

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  2. Jen @ HealthfulSaver says

    September 24, 2014 at 8:19 am

    I usually do my menu planning in a big notebook with pink paper. Like you, I write the grocery list on the same page and work from this notebook whenever I shop. I will try your form this weekend as it looks like the kind of layout that works for me.
    I have to have a full week meal plan or I end up spending way too much on groceries and not using what I have at home.

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    • Sally says

      September 24, 2014 at 11:34 am

      Jen–Hope it works out for you! I sometimes have the same problem of not being smart enough with what I already have on hand, then feeling dismayed by how much I’ve spent at the store. Have you ever done a pantry challenge? I’ve done a couple and written about them here. My husband and kids are never happy about it ๐Ÿ™‚ but it’s a great way to be less wasteful! Here’s a post: https://www.realmomnutrition.com/2012/10/23/join-my-pantry-challenge/

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  3. Wende says

    September 24, 2014 at 9:56 am

    Thanks for developing this, Sally! I’ve been using another planner for ages, but making changes to it every week to fit my needs. Yours includes everything I need! Thank you!

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    • Sally says

      September 24, 2014 at 11:31 am

      Thanks Wende! Hope it works for you. Nice to have a system–makes everything easier. ๐Ÿ™‚

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  4. Perry Perkins says

    September 24, 2014 at 11:39 am

    “I run in for garlic and come out with $150 worth of other stuff”

    I can TOTALLY relate, lol! (Failing to plan, is planning to fail…)

    This looks like a great resource to keep on track with meal planning, thank you!

    -Chef Perry
    http://www.simplysmartdinnerplans.com

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  5. Cammie says

    January 13, 2018 at 12:35 pm

    Love these! I’ve been using a template from another blog but this one fits my brain better, thanks for sharing! And I’m with you, I keep coming back to the paper to meal plan…sigh…

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  6. Sarah says

    February 15, 2018 at 9:43 am

    Hi Sally,
    I am having trouble getting the meal planning worksheets to download so I can print them. If it’s just a problem on my end, no problem, I can continue to try and figure it out. I thought I’d write just in case you’d heard this from others, though.
    If you have any tips on accessing these, I’d appreciate it.
    Thanks,
    Sarah

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    • Sally says

      February 15, 2018 at 1:51 pm

      Hi Sarah–So sorry to hear that. I will email them to you!

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