Meal Planner · Free · No account
A weekly meal planner for Excel, with a shopping list.
The weekly setup is the smallest version: one week of breakfast, lunch and dinner on the Plan sheet, plus a Shopping List by section. You type each meal straight onto the Plan, which prints on one landscape page.
- Excel 2016 and later
- Calculations checked in LibreOffice and Google Sheets
- Choose the planPick one or two weeks, a currency and the shop sections, written one per line in the order you walk round. Nine sections are suggested.
- Choose the extrasChoose a Meal Bank, a Shopping List, a snacks column, prep notes, leftovers and an estimated cost. Each one adds its own column or sheet.
- Download and fill inAdd your favourites to the Meal Bank, pick meals from the dropdown on the Plan, and list what to buy. The Summary counts what is left to plan.
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Preview: Weekly meal planner. Change the selected dates, categories or layout to update the preview.
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What you get
What is different in this setup
People who want a plain week on a page and a list to shop from, without building a bank of recipes first.
- No Meal Bank, so meals are typed straight onto the Plan.
- Shopping List is on, sorted by the sections you write.
- Snacks, prep, cost and leftovers are all off.
Sheets included (5)
- Start HereHow the workbook works, what each sheet is for and the settings used.
- PlanThe week of meals, one day per row.
- Shopping ListWhat to buy, by section.
- SummaryMeals planned, what is left to plan and to buy.
- ListsEdit the white lists to change dropdown choices. Shaded lists are fixed because formulas use those names.
File details
- Made for
- Excel 2016 and laterThe download is an .xlsx workbook.
- LibreOffice
- No calculation errors in our testLibreOffice recalculated every formula in the workbook with no error values, such as #VALUE! or #N/A.
- Google Sheets
- Calculations matched Excel in our testGoogle Sheets removes sheet protection and repeated print headings.
- Apple Numbers
- Every calculation matched ExcelNumbers converts list-based dropdowns to plain cells and removes colour markers, sheet protection, frozen headings and number and date validation.
- Calculations
- The Start Here sheet lists the calculations used in this workbook. Results update from the entries you add.
- Builder privacy
- The builder runs in your browser. The entries used to make the workbook stay on your device. How the utilities work
Questions
Are my builder entries sent to Due Form?
No. The builder uses them in your browser to make the workbook on your device.
Information is sent to Due Form when you submit a form or use another service described on the How it works page.
Can I add the Meal Bank later?
Not to the same file. Return to the builder, switch the Meal Bank on, and download a new workbook, then copy your meals across.
Does the Plan have dates?
Yes. Each row has a day and a date, and there is a Notes column for anything that does not fit, such as a late night or a meal out.
Related Due Form edition
The Week Book
An undated thirteen-week planner for commitments, available time, chosen work and what changed.
For the week around the meals
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