We recommend you to also consider the time you need to make and serve meals while planning as some days you might have less time for the preparation. Weekly Meal Planner helps you to plan a week's worth of meals in advance. New rows are added automatically when using 'Tab' key. For doing that, you can use a 'Tab' on your keyboard to move between the cells. You also have an option to add values in this sheet.

Meals: This sheet has comprehensive list of food choices for breakfast, lunch, afternoon snacks and dinner that can be used as dropdown list in Planner A and Planner B.

This sheet also has Grocery List which allows you to plan the things that you need to purchase. However in this layout you can manage the information from Monday to Sunday, in side to side format which means you can view two days together.

Planner B: With this sheet, you can plan your main meal and side meals using drop down lists for your breakfast, lunch, afternoon snacks and dinner as above.

In this layout you can manage the information from Monday to Sunday, organized in one after the other format.

Planner A: Use this sheet to plan your main meal and side meals using drop down lists for your breakfast, lunch, afternoon snacks and dinner.

This template includes two planners as follows: You can then use this list later for selecting from drop down lists. Involve everyone at home including kids to identify a comprehensive list of meals they like. Begin by downloading this template and recording the list of food items that you prefer to eat.

Meal planner template