Oct 25, 2010 Posted by denice johnson on Oct 25, 2010 in body, life | 0 comments

Weekly Menu Planner Free Download

We have all been there. The work/school day is done, everyone is tired and hungry but no one feels like cooking. You stand around the kitchen snacking on crackers dipped in the jam jar as time passes and dinner turns into frozen pizzas and regret. We all want good, healthy home cooked meals but we end up eating frozen or delivery more often than we should while likely getting ready for an evening full of activities.

Enter the Weekly Meal Planner. All it takes is sitting down once a week to plan out your seven day menu and corresponding grocery needs to turn dinner time confusion into culinary delight. Being prepared means that you can plan for quicker meals on busier evenings and more complicated recipes on the days when you have more time. It also means that trips to the grocery store are purpose driven and not just chucking random items in the cart and hoping they’ll go together later. A lot less money and time are wasted when you take a few moments to plan ahead.

I’ve created two different Weekly Menu Planner PDFs for free download to help make meal time easier. The first includes breakfast, lunch and dinner meal planning while the second eliminates breakfast from the list. Bother versions include a section for notes on each day so that you can correlate your meals with everything else going on in your life. I have also included a basic Grocery List Free Download with sections of the grocery store broken down into departments for more organized shopping.

Here’s a partial capture of the first PDF in action:

And here are the free printable PDF downloads – I hope they help make meal time more enjoyable and less stressful for your family.

Weekly Menu – Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Weekly Menu – Lunch and Dinner

Grocery List

Coming soon to little light, menu and recipe ideas for your weekly meal planner. I know that for my family planning ahead makes all the difference between happy, healthy meals and peanut butter sammiches 24/7.