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 using my meal planning worksheet.
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 worksheet:
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?
Do you use a meal planning worksheet?
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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 🙂
I hope that if you give it a try that you find it helpful:)
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.
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:)