Free Meal Planning Printables to Make Dinnertime Easier
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Let’s make meal planning feel easy again, shall we?
These free meal planning printables give you everything you need to plan dinners your family will enjoy.
Choose your favorite templates, fill them out, and feel good knowing the week ahead is already taken care of.
By the way, if meal planning has ever felt complicated, check out my simple approach to meal planning to see how easy it can actually be.
Weekly meal planners with snacks section
If you’re someone who likes to plan out your snacks or you’re using your meal planner as a food tracker, you’ll need an extra column in addition to your main meals.
These templates have sections for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks as well.
Choose between the Sunday and Monday start.
Meal planners with a grocery list on the same page
While some people may want to plan all their meals and snacks, others may only want to plan their dinners.
These templates make it super easy to get a grocery list together because you can conveniently jot down the ingredients you need as you’re planning your dinners for the week.
I really like how everything is all on one page. There’s space for each day of the week and a large writing area where you can make your shopping list.
Start your week on Sunday or Monday.
Favorite meals trackers
Do you ever just “go blank” when you sit down to plan out your meals?
Having a list of your favorite meals to pull ideas from is a game-changer and can really help speed up the meal planning process.
There are several options below for tracking breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and holiday favorites.
I’ve also included a favorite recipes sheet. The purpose of this one is to help you quickly locate a specific recipe, whether that’s in a cookbook, on a Pinterest board, etc.
Monthly meal planner
If you’re new to meal planning, you may not think you would ever want to plan an entire month of meals at once.
But once you start filling up those “favorite meals” sheets, it’s easier to do than you’d think!
This is a calendar-style template, and there’s an extra notes section at the bottom just in case you need it.
No fast food challenge
Trying to cut back on fast food spending? Print this challenge any time you need to take a break from eating out.
There’s a place for you to write in your exceptions, motivation, and notes.
This is the perfect challenge to start with if you’re new to meal planning and are trying to eat at home more.
It gives you a little extra boost of motivation.
Themed dinner nights
You’ve got your list of meals on hand, but you’re still struggling to make a decision.
Here’s one trick you can try: Dinner theme nights.
Try giving each day of the week a certain theme. This helps to narrow down your options and makes it so much easier to get a meal plan together.
This printable includes 28 dinner theme ideas to get you started.
This is only meant to be a starter list to get you thinking. If you like the idea of meal planning by theme, I urge you to start your own list of themes.
