4/14/2024 0 Comments Meal planning google sheet![]() ![]() Open your Google Calendar app and under “Other calendars,” click the “+” and “Create new calendar.” Then name that calendar “Menu” or “Meal Plan” or “Family Restaurant” or something else that makes you smile. Create a new calendar for your meal planning schedule. So I created a new Google Calendar, named it Menu, and it took me less than half an hour to set up my monthly meal planning schedule. I needed a new system that did most of the hard work for me. Then I floundered into the no-plan method, which made 5PM the least favorite hour of my day. The Cookbook app (which I love for my recipe rolodex, just not the meal planning feature - too many clicks!). Sure, planning out every meal worked for us when we were just DINKs (dual-income-no-kids) and I was rushing in the door from work to make dinner, but when Little Miss came along, I needed something newer, faster, and easier. My clunky spreadsheet was a bit too restrictive when our life season changed. How about a calendar app solution that is out-of-the-box and not even originally invented for meal planning at all?Ī bit of backstory: After being married a couple years, I ditched the dreaded weekly meal planning task and landed on a monthly meal plan rotation using a spreadsheet instead! No more starting from scratch every week.īut then it simply became time to move on. Or you just feel like trying something new for a change. If you’re like me, you probably feel like you’ve tried it all: meal plan scheduling on paper, meal planning digitally via an app like Cookbook or Trello, maybe even a rotation! But nothing seems to work for you and your family. ![]() When 5PM is the dreaded witching hour, nothing in the pantry seems to inspire you, and you just don’t feel like making … anything. She is a fellow blogger, author, and freelance editor (with three historical fiction novels to her name!), and today she is sharing her meal planning system with you. My dear friend, Rachelle, and I share a mutual love for efficiency.
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