The Weekly Family Meal Planner

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One page: five dinner slots and a shopping list grouped by supermarket section.

Meal planning fails when the planner is more complicated than the problem. This one is a single page, because a single page gets used.

What is inside

• Five weeknight dinner slots — deliberately five, not seven, because two nights always go differently than planned.
• A shopping list grouped by supermarket section, so you walk the shop once.
• A short “already have” column to stop you buying a third jar of cumin.
• A space for the two meals that worked, to build a reliable rotation over time.

How to use it

Fill it in during the twenty-minute Sunday reset. Decide first, shop second. The deciding is the part that costs you at 5pm on a Tuesday.

Stuck for what to put in the five slots? Our recipes are sorted by prep time, and there is a walkthrough of using AI to plan a week of meals if you would rather have a first draft written for you.