29/08/2025
5 ways to make meal planning easier!
1. A shared note filled with your households favourite meals, recipes you’ve saved from the internet etc
🥦It often feels like the options for meals are endless, having something that has them centralised is extremely helpful!
2. Take 15 minutes on grocery day to plan out what your meals for the week will be
🍅We do this on a Sunday morning, plan our dinners, lunches if dinner won’t give us leftovers & breakfast is always the same, easy!
🫑Knowing what we’re eating each day allows us to balance our meals ensuring there is a variety of proteins and veges!
3. Use what’s in your fridge or cupboard
🥔Didn’t finish the sour cream last week? Cool, we’re having something Mexican this week to finish it off before it expires.
4. Use a whiteboard or similar on your fridge so that everyone knows what’s for tea & what needs to be defrosted.
🥩This could save people snacking on the items you need for tea
🍎Saves the “what’s for dinner questions”
🫛Less “sh*t, we forgot to take meat out” moments!
5. Look ahead at your schedule for the week and align the low effort meals with the busy nights or split the load on cooking if you cook with others
🥙Know you’re both out on a Tuesday until 8pm - opt for Monday leftovers, homemade burgers or a slow cooker meal. No point putting your elaborate 2 hour prep dinner on the busy nights
👩🏼🍳Mondays & Wednesdays - I finish at 8pm so Daniel cooks, Tuesdays and Thursday’s I’m home first so I cook then
These little hacks can be massive at saving time, stress, money, reducing food waste and helping you eat healthier.
