Family Meal Planning Printables for Moms Who Don't Like to Plan

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Planning to Stock Up Your Kitchen

Meal planning is an area of homemaking where many women struggle. We know it’s a daily necessity. Yet it meal time often seems to sneak up on us.

As a wife, mom, and homeschooler we generally have to plan 21 meals every week, plus snacks, and desserts. Then there are times we even entertain guests.

To help you in your planning efforts I’m sharing some free meal planning printables.

If you’ve been following this meal planning series you have come to learn that my method of meal planning consists of keeping a well stocked kitchen. Then I make daily choices based upon what I have on-hand in my kitchen pantry and cold storage supplies.

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Perhaps that’s not the way you plan. Which I totally understand. We each have to do what works for us. But maybe you are wanting to give this type of meal planning a try and aren’t sure where to start.

That’s why I came up with these meal planning printables which can help you as you begin to plan by stocking up your kitchen for the first time.

My planning pages include a Food Supply Planner, Monthly Meal Planner, Weekly Meal Planner and Daily Planning Schedule. I also include a list of the supplies I like to keep on hand which you can use as a guide to but then use the editable Food Supply Planner to customize your own plan.

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Food Supply List Meal Planning Printable

To use this Food Supply Planner, once you subscribe and open the file you can save it, or edit it before you save it.

Once you open it either on the web or using an Adobe or other pdf reader, you can edit the cells in the list to include the shopping items that you want to keep on-hand in your own kitchen. Use my Pantry Supply List as a starting guide but then tweak it to fit your own family’s need.

Monthly Meal Planning Printable

Use this Monthly Menu Planner AFTER you’ve gone grocery shopping and filled your kitchen with supplies. Then look at the meats that you have on-hand and couple those with side dishes to plan out an overview of your month.

Since dinner is typically the hardest meal to plan for, start there. You can print as many of these forms as you like and also plan out breakfast and lunch meals.

Weekly Meal Planning Printable

After you have an overview of what you can make for your meals for the month, it’s easy to funnel those meals into a weekly schedule. Simply insert the meal plans into each section. Print one sheet for each week.

Daily Meal Planning Printable

Do you prefer to have a daily meal plan? Me too. This is where you can narrow down your overall kitchen stock into a daily plan. You can either decide based upon your monthly overview which days you want to have a meal, or you can use the above weekly plan and rearrange the meals into a daily overview based on what you or a family member is craving.

Keep in mind these planners are tools to help you as you begin the process of maintaining a well stocked pantry.

Meal planning from your pantry rather than from the grocery saves you time and money. Because you’re cooking what you have on-hand rather than what you can get outside your home you learn to utilize all of your resources.

Over time you’ll learn that you don’t need to use planning pages as much once you get used to trusting that you have supplies on-hand. But, you could still use any of the above meal planning pages if you find them to be more beneficial to you.

Learn more about how I do meal planning without a plan.

Whether you are a weekly planner, or monthly planner these pages can help you get control of what you keep in stock, on-hand in your kitchen pantry and cold storage supplies.

What do you think? Are you ready to give meal planning without a plan a try?

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