Personal & Lifestyle

Weekly Meal Planner Templates

The point of planning meals is the shopping list that falls out of it, so these keep the list on the same sheet rather than on a separate one you will leave at home.

Seven day columns and a row for each meal. Type one meal per line in each column and keep the line counts equal - the rows line up on their own, and a day you are eating out is a dash rather than a gap.

Plan seven dinners rather than a fortnight of every meal, write leftovers in as a meal, and leave one night open - the version that survives past Wednesday is set out in how to plan meals for a week.

Meals This Week

15 - 21 March 2027

Meal
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
Mon
Porridge
Leftover daal
Chicken karahi
Tue
Eggs and toast
Sandwiches
Vegetable pulao
Wed
Porridge
Soup
Fish, rice, salad
Thu
Yoghurt and fruit
Leftover pulao
Chana with roti
Fri
Parathas
Out
Biryani
Sat
Eggs
Sandwiches
Pasta
Sun
Halwa puri
Late lunch at Ammi's
Soup and bread
Shopping list
Milk, eggs, chicken, river fish, chana, yoghurt, spinach, tomatoes, coriander, rice
Plain WeekSimple · ruled columns

Meals This Week

15 - 21 March 2027

Meal
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
Mon
Porridge
Leftover daal
Chicken karahi
Tue
Eggs and toast
Sandwiches
Vegetable pulao
Wed
Porridge
Soup
Fish, rice, salad
Thu
Yoghurt and fruit
Leftover pulao
Chana with roti
Fri
Parathas
Out
Biryani
Sat
Eggs
Sandwiches
Pasta
Sun
Halwa puri
Late lunch at Ammi's
Soup and bread
Shopping list
Milk, eggs, chicken, river fish, chana, yoghurt, spinach, tomatoes, coriander, rice
Banded WeekModern · alternating rows

Meals This Week

15 - 21 March 2027

Meal
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
Mon
Porridge
Leftover daal
Chicken karahi
Tue
Eggs and toast
Sandwiches
Vegetable pulao
Wed
Porridge
Soup
Fish, rice, salad
Thu
Yoghurt and fruit
Leftover pulao
Chana with roti
Fri
Parathas
Out
Biryani
Sat
Eggs
Sandwiches
Pasta
Sun
Halwa puri
Late lunch at Ammi's
Soup and bread
Shopping list
Milk, eggs, chicken, river fish, chana, yoghurt, spinach, tomatoes, coriander, rice
Kitchen WeekFilled · header band

Meals This Week

15 - 21 March 2027

Meal
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
Mon
Porridge
Leftover daal
Chicken karahi
Tue
Eggs and toast
Sandwiches
Vegetable pulao
Wed
Porridge
Soup
Fish, rice, salad
Thu
Yoghurt and fruit
Leftover pulao
Chana with roti
Fri
Parathas
Out
Biryani
Sat
Eggs
Sandwiches
Pasta
Sun
Halwa puri
Late lunch at Ammi's
Soup and bread
Shopping list
Milk, eggs, chicken, river fish, chana, yoghurt, spinach, tomatoes, coriander, rice
Garden WeekFilled · tinted columns

Common questions

How far ahead should I plan?

A week. Two weeks looks efficient and collapses by the fourth day, because plans made a fortnight out do not survive one late evening.

Should I plan every meal?

Plan dinners properly and leave breakfast and lunch loose - those are habits rather than decisions, and planning them adds work for nothing.

What about leftovers?

Write them in as a meal. A plan that pretends every dinner is cooked fresh is the plan that produces waste on Thursday.