When I meal plan, I try to sketch out a month's worth of dinners at a time to get an idea of the whole month at once.  I can factor in any trips, school events, or sports that my family has scheduled for that month.  Then each week, I detail the meal plan for that week (if it needs it) and create my weekly grocery shopping list.  Although, if I'm warehouse shopping, then this monthly meal plan ...

Some weeks when I am meal planning, I just focus specifically on planning what we will have for dinner each night and leave the rest of the meals unscheduled for a particular day.  Why?  Because sometimes our  daytime activities are hectic and ever changing, so writing those "in stone" makes me feel unsuccessful when it doesn't happen. So, I've created this free meal planning printable to help ...

We have several free printables to help you meal plan each week and here's another one that might work for you.  Keeping it simple, we've created a free printable weekly meal plan to include your plan for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for each day of the week. Print the Weekly Meal Plan free printable here. Don't forget to take advantage of our giant Recipe Index to find some new favorite ...

If you like having only one place to write down your meal plan and create your weekly shopping list, then this is a fantastic free printable for you!  It includes spaces to write down your plan for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for each day of the week, and then also includes a section for your grocery shopping list including quantity of each item and if you have a coupon or not as well as price.  ...

Stuck on what to serve for dinner?  Create a quick cheat sheet of your family's favorite meals to keep you on track for making dinner at home!  We do this every other month or so and let the kids help us come up with new recipes to add, so that we don't get tired of the same meals. Keep in mind that this isn't a meal plan to have ONLY these meals, but more of a "What can we have for dinner that ...