In addition, make sure that after you plan your meals with this form that you fill out the grocery shopping list with everything you need from the store to make this week's meals.įinally, if you'd like to combine your meal planning and grocery list making form together I've made a form for that here! Here's Your Free Printable Instead, I would save the plans you've made and then eventually you can begin rotating them, after 6-8 weeks. If you want to save yourself time I wouldn't throw away the weekly plan when the week is over if you print out a new form each week. You can either print out one form and place it in a page protector, and fill it out with a dry erase marker and erase each week, or print out a different form for each week. You may be similar, for a variety of reasons, but if you don't want to plan all the meals no problem. Sometimes I plan all the meals for the day, like when the kids are home for the summer breaks, but not when they're in school during the rest of the year.
The biggest thing you need to consider is whether you actually want to fill out the breakfast and lunch columns each week, or not. This form is designed to be used in conjunction with the Healthy Meal Planning & Grocery List Challenge here on the site, where you begin (or continue) to plan your family's meals ahead of time.įilling out this template each week is pretty self-explanatory, really, especially if you read all the steps from the Challenge itself which discusses the concept of meal planning in more detail.