Like I said a few days ago, I decided to take Saturday as my rest day this week before my race on Sunday. I don’t usually worry too much about taking the day off before a short race, but with a 10 miler next Saturday I needed to strategize. So this morning, instead of getting up and going out running for hours, I got started on my weekly meal planning and grocery list.
I created a form that can help with the process of planning for the week. There is a section for planning your meals, a section for planning snacks and other recipes you will make that week, and a section for your grocery list. I had been doing it separately and writing it by hand, but this way I was able to just pull in up on my phone while I was grocery shopping.
Here is the template for the meal planning/grocery list form:
Meal and Grocery List Planning
Here is a sample of how my meal planning looked this week:
So after I did the planning and the grocery shopping, I went to work in the kitchen with the food prep.
Turkey meatballs, steak, granola bars, chicken, hummus, berries, cucumber salad with corn and tomatoes, sliced peppers, cookies.
After all that I got a little cleaning done and now I’m relaxing for a bit until its time for church and dinner! My allergies decided to come back today, so I hope they don’t interfere with the race tomorrow. (When they were really bad a few weeks ago they made running feel much harder). I’ve been taking different allergy medicine again (the kind with a decongestant) so hopefully that will help!
Let me know if you are able to use the planning worksheet, or if you have any issues with it!
What meals/recipes are you planning or prepping for next week?
Michele @ paleorunningmomma says
Love your organization! Think I might have to use your template. My version of meal planning is a rough grocery list in my phone. I think this would really help vary our dinners 🙂
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I hope that if you give it a try that you find it helpful:)
Susie @ SuzLyfe says
Reminds me of the commercial where the woman has gained more time and invested that time into organizing (and then her friend tells her that her peppers are misplaced), lol. I so respect people who are so organized, but Alex and I just can’t plan that far out, or everything would go bad! I am too much of eater that is driven by emotion and what is sounding tasty at that moment.
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Haha! I totally get it. My family and friends are always teasing me about the crazy level of organization that I have. When we don’t have a plan in place Rob and I just stare at each other and say “What do you want to eat?” “I don’t care” and this goes back and forth for way too long:) I’m glad you know what works for you. This certainly is not for everyone:)