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Meal Plan Template

Blank Meal Planner: PDF | Word | Image

Ready made colored printables

Ready-Made Colored Meal Planners

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Meal Planner Maker | Select any Border and any Template

Bullet journal version

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Contents hide
1 Blank Meal Plan Template
1.1 Printable Weekly Meal Planner Template
1.2 Printable Monthly Meal Planner Template
2 Planner with a Meal Planning Section
2.1 Weekly Planner with a Menu Planning Section
2.2 Daily Planner with a Meal Planning Section
3 How to Make a Meal Plan Template
4 DIY Meal Plan Maker
5 Horizontal Meal Plan Template
6 Bullet Journal Meal Plan
7 Why plan your meals?
7.1 Save Money
7.2 Save Time
7.3 Eat Healthy Food
7.4 Vary your Meals
7.5 Reduce Stress

We offer a selection of free printable meal planner templates. Each template has a Sunday or Monday start and can be download as an editable PDF, Word or image file. We also have a meal plan maker with which you can customize your printable. You select the meal plan template and the border to create any customized printable to plan your meals. 

Blank Meal Plan Template

Printable Weekly Meal Planner Template

A weekly meal planner template printable will help you organize your meals for the entire week. Many of the templates include a grocery list to prepare your shopping list and ensure you don’t forget to buy anything you will need to prepare your meals.

The editable weekly meal planner template Word is useful if you want to make any changes or would like to adapt the template to your needs. The PDF version is also editable, but you can only add text and cannot change the structure.

 

menu planning template

This menu planning template has pretty pastel colors and a grocery list with heart shaped bullets.

Sunday Start

Editable PDF | Word | Image

Monday Start

Editable PDF | Word | Image

This weekly meal template has three columns for breakfast, lunch and dinner for seven days of the week starting on a Sunday or a Monday.

Sunday Start

Editable PDF | Word | Image

Monday Start

Editable PDF | Word | Image

weekly planner template with snacks
This is a weekly planner template with snacks. It also has a section to track water intake.

Sunday Start

Editable PDF | Word | Image

Monday Start

Editable PDF | Word | Image

This printable meal planner is similar to the one above but it doesn’t have a section for snacks.

Sunday Start

Editable PDF | Word | Image

Monday Start

Editable PDF | Word | Image

weekly meal planner template with grocery list
This is a weekly meal planner template with grocery list. It is a week-long but you can print more than one copy if you want to track your meals and snacks over a longer period.

Sunday Start

Editable PDF | Word | Image

Monday Start

Editable PDF | Word | Image

free meal planner template
This free meal planner template will help you plan meals for the week.

Sunday Start

Editable PDF | Word | Image

Monday Start

Editable PDF | Word | Image

This free printable menu planner has a grocery list and a note section. The note section can be used for meal prep, name of recipes or even your emotional state when you ate for those trying to deal with emotional eating.

Sunday Start

Editable PDF | Word | Image

Monday Start

Editable PDF | Word | Image

meal plan sheet
This meal plan sheet has four sections per day for each meal and a grocery list.

Sunday Start

Editable PDF | Word | Image

Monday Start

Editable PDF | Word | Image

Weekly menu planner
This weekly menu planner plans three meals per day and a grocery list. The titles are in shades of blue and there is a watercolor border at the bottom of the page.

Sunday Start

Editable PDF | Word | Image

Monday Start

Editable PDF | Word | Image

This meal plan chart
This is a simple meal plan chart with three columns only.

Sunday Start

Editable PDF | Word | Image

Monday Start

Editable PDF | Word | Image

Weekly meal planner

Sunday Start

Editable PDF | Word | Image

Monday Start

Editable PDF | Word | Image

Weekly menu planner

Sunday Start

Editable PDF | Word | Image

Monday Start

Editable PDF | Word | Image

Meal prep planner
This meal prep template has a section for a grocery list and a meal prep list where you can list the things you need to do to prepare your meals.

Sunday Start

Editable PDF | Word | Image

Monday Start

Editable PDF | Word | Image

meal prep calendar

Sunday Start

Editable PDF | Word 

Monday Start

Editable PDF | Word  

This meal prep calendar has a section for each meal and one for meal prep. When I am really feeling organized I like to sort my meals according to the prep I will have to do. So if for example, I have two recipes that will require me to chop onions then I make them on consecutive days so that I save one step. I chop enough for both recipes and refrigerate the second batch. If you are organized enough you can save a lot of work. Once you find a few ideal meal set ups, you can repeat them every second week or so. I’ll do anything to save time.
Meal Plan color

Editable PDF | Word | Image | Excel Spreadsheet

Meal Plan

Editable PDF | Word | Image | Excel Spreadsheet

Printable Monthly Meal Planner Template

Monthly meal planner
This meal plan calendar template will organize your meals for an entire month. The advantage of using a monthly menu planner template is that when you see the entire month at a glance you are less likely to repeat meals and ensure more of a variety.

Sunday Start

Editable PDF | Word | Image

Monday Start

Editable PDF | Word | Image

Planner with a Meal Planning Section

Weekly Planner with a Menu Planning Section

Many of our weekly planners include a menu planning section to plan your meals and prepare your grocery list. Here are some sample meal plan templates with a weekly planner. These planners are not dedicated to menu planning but include it among other elements of the planner.

Weekly Planner with meal plan

Word | Editable PDF | Image | Excel

Weekly Planner with menu plan template

Word | Editable PDF | Image | Excel

Weekly calendar with one column only

PDF | Word | Image

Daily Planner with a Meal Planning Section

Daily Schedule with meal planner

Word | Editable PDF | Image | Excel

Daily Calendar Template

This daily calendar template has a monthly calendar on the top of the page. Go to monthly calendars to select the month you need.

How to Make a Meal Plan Template

Decide if you want a weekly or monthly format.

Select a template from the selection above. Choose the one that best suits your needs. There are ones that include snacks, others include food prep and some include a grocery list to purchase the food that you will need to prepare.

Choose the PDF, Word or image version. The PDF version is probably the best is you want to print or fill in the meals before you print. The Word version gives you more flexibility to make changes to the template. The image version cannot be edited at all.

Customize & Print

High calorie, unhealthy, fast food is readily available everywhere. It’s quick and convenient, pretty much wherever you are. Healthy, unprocessed, and real food requires effort on your part. It requires planning and preparation. If you plan your meals when you are already hungry and ready to eat the chances are you will prefer to reach out for something ready to eat and unhealthy rather than spend the time preparing a healthy home-cooked meal. That is where meal plans come in handy. They encourage you to plan your meals before you are hungry. That way, you can ensure you have all the required ingredients and that the meal is ready before you lose your patience and are ready to eat pretty much anything. It is much easier to make better food choices when the choices are available when you need them.

Once you have planned your meals, make a grocery list. From experience, don’t shop when you are hungry as you will land up with a lot more groceries that might not have made it into your basket on an empty stomach.

Customize & Print

DIY Meal Plan Maker

With the DIY meal plan maker you can choose any meal plan template and any background. There are hundreds of different options available but here are a few samples. Click on the button below to get started.

Customize & Print

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menu plan printable
Pretty menu plan
Printable to plan meals

Horizontal Meal Plan Template

Meal Planner

Menu Planner

Menu Planner

Bullet Journal Meal Plan

Bullet Journal Menu Plan
BuJo Menu plan
Menu plan
Meal Plan with Grocery List

If you want to print a meal plan PDF format then click on download and select the PDF option.

Customize & Print

Why plan your meals?

Save Money

You will save money on meals when you plan ahead. Cooking at home is always cheaper than eating out. You will usually have leftovers that can be eaten the next day or frozen for another day.

When you plan your meals you will ensure that you have all ingredients ready when you cook. That way you don’t realize halfway through a recipe that you are short of one of the ingredients (does that only happen to me?). It also saves trips to the grocery store when you prepare a weekly meal plan. Once you know what you will be eating all week you can buy enough groceries for all meals that week instead of making more trips to the store. Each trip you make will both waste time and probably result in impulsive buying and unplanned purchases as a result.

Save Time

Save time by doubling up recipes. Whenever a recipe can be frozen I double it up and freeze the second portion. Making one batch or two usually takes pretty much the same time and often doesn’t cost that much more since not all recipes use all ingredients purchased. This is so handy for those days when I don’t feel like cooking or simply don’t have the time. Some items freeze really well and I often make 6 or 8 portions. For example, my kids love lasagna. When I make it then I make about 8 trays and freeze 7.  

Eat Healthy Food

When we plan, we increase our chances of eating healthy meals. When we don’t plan, we often land up eating food that is more accessible and it’s often processed, unhealthy, and fattening. 

Vary your Meals

When you plan your meals you can ensure you vary your diet. This makes meals more interesting and well balanced. When we don’t plan ahead, we often land up making the same meals over and over.

Reduce Stress

When you plan your meals, you avoid last-minute decisions about what to eat. It’s less stressful when you know dinner is planned or even prepared. You know you have the ingredients and you don’t have to think about what to make.

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