Free Grocery Shopping Planner-Sheet 2

Since I'm now "starting over" with meal planning, I've made a new grocery shopping list for us. John shops now on Wednesday nights and Sundays. I work on getting my list done on Tuesdays. I plan for Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday (he shops for these things on Wednesday). I write in the meals in the boxes and under the boxes write what ingredients I need. Then on the lower half of the sheet I neatly write out his grocery list. Click here for PDF Grocery Planner Sheet.

This is a help because he'll often say, "purple, watermelon flavored diced tomatoes"?? What are those for? Now with the meals at the top written in the boxes, I can say, "oh, that's for Thursday night, the watermelon lasagna" (for a silly example).

Free Meal Planner-Sheet 1

I used to think that people who planned meals used a "magical system" with special tools to help them do what seemed impossible to me! So here's your big chance at my magical Free Meal Planner Sheet. Yep, it is just a simple grid. Click here for the PDF.
The important thing is not that you use MINE but that YOU FIND OUT WHAT YOURS SHOULD LOOK LIKE. That is a key to educating yourself about how YOU are going to solve the "meal planning problem".

STEP 1: Get out at least 10 sheets of blank or lined paper
STEP 2: Sketch out a week or a month "calendar" on your paper
STEP 3: pretend you have 5 meals (spaghetti, hamburgers, chicken casserole, fish steaks and taco salad) for example and now put them on the paper as if you were planning to eat these next week for dinners

NOTICE what format you prefer...do you like the paper to be in the landscape or portrait position? Do you like to see the week or month all at once? Be willing to accept for awhile that you may not really know what you like best.

Keep your attempts in a 3 ring notebook while you work it out.