Orange cover reading Meal Planner, with labels No recipes and 8 pages, and three tilted sample pages: a week grid, a grocery list and a pantry count.
  • Orange cover reading Meal Planner, with labels No recipes and 8 pages, and three tilted sample pages: a week grid, a grocery list and a pantry count.
  • Eight page thumbnails labelled How it works, Sunday first, Monday first, Grocery list, Pantry count, Fridge and freezer, Dinners for a month and Meals we like.
  • Week of meals page, Sunday first, with seven day rows, Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Snack columns filled with blue sample meals, and lines below.
  • Grocery list by store aisle page, with twelve aisle boxes from Produce to Household, small tick boxes, and a few blue sample items.
  • Pantry count page with Item, Have, Need, Buy and Use by columns, a list of printed pantry items with sample numbers and empty rows below.
  • Two pages side by side: Dinners for a month, a calendar grid of empty boxes, and Meals we like, a numbered list.
  • Two boxes, US Letter with 8 pages and A4 with 8 pages, and a note that the files are flat PDFs for pen or pencil.

Meal Planner

This meal planner is blank on purpose. It holds no recipes and suggests no meals, so you write what your own household eats. Pages 2 and 3 are the same week of meals, one with Sunday first and one with Monday first. Page 4 is a grocery list with 12 store aisles from Produce to Household. Pages 5 and 6 count the pantry and the fridge and freezer with Have, Need and Buy columns. Page 7 is a month of dinners and page 8 lists the meals you like. Print a meal page and a grocery page each week.

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Print PDF, Letter and A4, no form fields. A script checked page sizes, embedded fonts and margins. It has not been opened in Acrobat or test-printed.

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What's included

  • Meal-Planner-Letter.pdf, 8 pages
  • Meal-Planner-A4.pdf, 8 pages
  • Start-Here-Meal-Planner.pdf, how the pages fit together and print settings

How it works

  1. Eight page thumbnails labelled How it works, Sunday first, Monday first, Grocery list, Pantry count, Fridge and freezer, Dinners for a month and Meals we like.
    Eight pages How it works, two week grids, grocery list, pantry count, fridge and freezer count, month of dinners and Meals we like.
  2. Week of meals page, Sunday first, with seven day rows, Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Snack columns filled with blue sample meals, and lines below.
    A blank week of meals Seven days by Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Snack, with lines for budget, shopping day and what to use up.
  3. Grocery list by store aisle page, with twelve aisle boxes from Produce to Household, small tick boxes, and a few blue sample items.
    Grocery list by aisle Twelve aisles with seven lines each. A small box for the amount and one to tick in the cart.
  4. Pantry count page with Item, Have, Need, Buy and Use by columns, a list of printed pantry items with sample numbers and empty rows below.
    Pantry count Item, Have, Need, Buy and Use by, with 16 items printed and 12 empty lines.
  5. Two pages side by side: Dinners for a month, a calendar grid of empty boxes, and Meals we like, a numbered list.
    Month and favorites An undated grid of 35 dinner boxes, and 30 numbered lines for meals you like.

Compatibility and file formats

Print PDF for pen or pencil, with no form fields. Page sizes in the files: US Letter 612 x 792 pt and A4 595 x 842 pt. A script confirmed the sizes, that the fonts are embedded and that no ink falls within 0.25 inch of the page edge. It has been opened only by scripts (poppler and pikepdf), not in Adobe Acrobat Reader or Preview, and it has not been test-printed on a real printer.

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Questions

Are there meal ideas in it?

No. The file is blank, and it contains no recipes. The meal names in the preview images are samples of what you could write.

How many copies do I print for a week?

One meal page and one grocery page. Print the count pages less often, and fill them in with pencil if you want to reuse them.

Can I change the pantry items?

They are printed. Cross out what you do not keep, and use the 12 empty lines.

Can I type in it?

No. It is a flat PDF for printing and writing by hand.

It contains no recipes and gives no diet or nutrition advice. Printer and paper are not included. Digital files cannot be returned once downloaded; if a file does not open or a link is broken, send a message through Etsy. License: for your personal use only. No resale or sharing of this file. AI helped write the listing text, the how-to text, the printed labels and the code that builds this file. Scripts tested: the seven days in order on both week pages, the 12 store aisles, the count columns, a scan of every page for cooking directions, ink near the page edge and text overflow. No person is claimed to have checked it unless stated here.