1. Make a master list of recipes 2.Choose the day of the week you will do grocery shopping 3.Look at any upcoming events where cooking won’t work with your schedule 4. Write out your meals and brainstorm 5.Write out your grocery list 6. Get started with your meals (optional: meal prep certain foods)
Meal planning has saved me so much money over the years! I used to go to the grocery store without a plan in mind, buy a bunch of random groceries that I couldn’t make meals out of, and waste money. Now I meal plan around what food is on sale that week, and it’s so much better! 😊
Christina I couldn't agree with you more. We've saved so much money by meal planning. What I also love is that you don't let anything you have on hand go to waste because you always know what you have so you can plan on how to use it.
@@youtubecommentator6023 I don't waste food even without meticulous meal planning because I often make meals based on which food(s) in the fridge might start to go bad the soonest, but I also live alone so if I make something weird nobody else has to suffer 😄
What I love about this video is how totally real it is. It's not strict and over-organized. I've been getting so overwhelmed looking at videos about meal planning and this was such a breath of fresh air. Literally down to the spiral notebook and plain boring old pen. It's so refreshing not to see a giant binder with charts and graphs and lists and all kinds of colorful pens and highlighters and stickers. I also love how there's zero judgment in using wiggle room and going out once or twice a week which is way more realistic than others who say they might go out once a month.
I love emailing myself recipes as I find them since 99% of them are online anyway! The email subject is what the recipe is, then I put all of those emails in a "Food Ideas" folder in gmail, so easy to just go through that when I'm looking for recipe ideas!
I know a family that goes to the store right after work to buy stuff to make for dinner. They do it every day so that all of the ingredients they use are fresh that day. I think if it works for you, why not right?
I started a binder of recipes that I tried and actually liked. I wrote them down or printed them out. Over time I've built up a great collection of recipes and meal inspiration. I highly suggest others do the same!
I keep a binder too instead of cookbooks and have found it very useful! Another thing I do is to make sure I have left overs (or frozen soup to thaw) available on grocery shopping day so I don’t have to cook. I use the time to wash and prep instead
I’ve been working on a 16 week meal plan for breakfast lunch and dinner and making them go all together. Example if I make meatballs for dinner then I save some of them and add some sauce on a bun and call it a meatball sub for lunch. So thinking how to overlap the different meals and efforts. And this helps not have food waste. Also I figure 16 weeks doesn’t get repetitive. I’ve also included a shopping list to go along for the week. My thought process is to work really hard on this one time and then not have to take the time again until I just want to make some tweaks.
I have been meal planning for years but never thought about grouping my list in terms of produce type! I am often going back and forth in the supermarket so this will be so helpful and save me time! Thank you :) x
Great video. When I became a vegetarian 2 years ago I made a master list of 20 to 30 meals that I could easily make and it really helped ease any anxiety.
Each time I’m getting better and and more efficient with meal prep. The latest batch I did went smoothly and I did almost double the amount I’ve done before. One of the biggest things I learned to do, is to mix all the marinades in bowls first before even getting to the meat. Previously i use to just chop all my onions and herbs and add what i needed to add to each bag with the meat… very messy and takes longer. I’m thinking of doing the marinades (if i have all the ingredients) a day or few prior to buying the meats.
This is a great video! I do follow a little format with my meal plan. I cook one casserole dish, one meat dish, one fish, one vegan and the last is a "fast" meal, the final two meals of our week are take out, and a freezer meal/leftovers.
Thank you! I’m giving myself a healthy lifestyle challenge in June 2020 include 30 days of daily exercise, healthy diet and meditation! 💪💪💪 this meal plan video is very helpful
Great video with lots of info. I just ended up getting the Cooklist app which includes an area for meal planning, lots of recipes & ability to upload recipes, keeps track of your pantry based on shopping accounts linked or scan in your current pantry and/or receipts. It makes meal planning/ grocery lists/shopping super easy. And when anyone says what ro we have to eat, you can show them everything in the pantry, freezer, snacks etc. I really like it!
I’m a big meal planner when I was working full time, right now I’m losing motivation. I always cook enough for lunch the next day. I also try to use up what we have first, then add stuff we need. I’ve really been wanting to start a favourites of meals we love. Especially with 2 young kids, on a vegan diet! Love your videos ❤️
I love meal planning!! I have been trying to stream line the process, because I get over ambitious in recipe 'trying'. I have a 'favorites' list, and the prepping ahead is something I have just tried as of last week - and it was a huge success... thank you for all of your tips!
I had been meal planning awhile back..but had seem to lose the interest. Also had lost the interest of cooking. Want to get back into it cause it's been stressful trying to figure out what to cook..I'm glad i heard your video..hopefully this will give me help on what i need to do again..thanks😀
I liked your video.I follow a slightly different strategy.I go to the market during the week (if possible) with a rough list. And I looking around for the product on offer. For example: I need pasta and sauce I will buy the sauce and the pasta on offer. There are so many types of sauce. Basil sauce, tomato sauce, cheese sauce and so on. Based on what I will find I create combinations. Moreover I try to buy fruit and seasonal vegetables. The mediterranean diet has many dishes ti choose from. Greetings from Italy 🙂
I'm new to meal planning. Your video drastically decreased the anxiety and confusion I had going into this. Thank you for its simplicity and detail. I even took notes lol. I feel more confident moving forward. Thank you 🙏🏾 again
Amazing... thank you so much. I've never used meal planning but I realize that I would save so much time and money and improve my overall quality of life If I applied some self discipline and took my meal planning a little more seriously. Thanks for sharing great advice!
Thank you for your “ simple and easy” plan, I have watched other videos and I see the extensive “plans” people show but it didn’t work for me. I am not motivated right now, that makes it hard to want to do it. I will try this!
Making a master list of recipes is an absolute gamechanger. I'm a university student and on my own for the first time so navigating cooking has been a little challenging. This helped out a lot, thank you!
Yes, I always wash and prep my produce! Sometimes I cook up my meat ahead and freeze in portions and label what meal it's for. Takes a little time, but saves time later when it's a busier day and it's time to get the meal on the table.
As a beginner , I really enjoyed this video it is very simplified with no extreme level of organization to make me overwhelmed or discouraged . I could see how easily each step could be applied for success. Thanks for the Wonderful video and advice !
I have so many intolerances to preservatives and additives that we don't get to go out to eat hardly ever. We also live an hour away from any restaurants, so meal planning is essential for us. But I have to admit that I have let the planning part take a nose dive over the past year. This has inspired me to get it together again. Thank you
I'm just starting to do the same thing with a section in my control journal. Whether try are my iwn recipresorrecipesIbfound on-line or in a recipe book, I wr8te them into my journal wheneverI make onethat people in my home like.
Thank you. Very informative. Some new plans people refer to frozen veggies and for me to be honest don’t care for the frozen veggies and would prefer fresh veggies to cooking. Thoughts?
I’ve been meal planning for years now and didn’t think about keeping my favorite recipes in a central location. That’s so simple but I appreciate you pointing it out.
I do meal plan. I've been doing it for a couple of years. Because of PDS i have problems with eating the recipes i decided to make during the week. So sinds a couple of weeks i meal plan just for three days so i know how my PDS will respond and i don't throw away to many groceries.
Very insightful video. As everyone has a different schedule and family situation what works best with my family is ordering our weekly shop online and buying the same/similar foods every week and thinking about what we need and what we actually going to eat and what we already have in the house
I have always thought that dieting is eating only green vegetables and drinking water. *Agoge Diet* proved me wrong. I am eating delicious and nutritionally rich food and still reaching my fitness goals.
I try to meal plan, but my partner prefers to go to a grocery shop every single day anyway, because he thinks that the vegetables bought in Saturday are not in shape in, f.e. Thursday anymore. So because he is in shop every day he is buying a lot of stuff that catches his eye, especially chocolate. So it’s neither money saving nor really convenient anyway...
I'm not bitter (I wish I could honestly say that) when I hear people say that they get to eat out once or twice a week. Order in, eat out, drive through fast food. I am lucky if I get to eat out twice a month. And I thoroughly enjoy when I do because I dont get to often. Mostly because we are trying to save money but also because it really does cost sp much. So eating 3 meals a day at home 7 days a week is my usual. And honestly, it kinda sucks and it is stressful because I'm trying to plan for what seems to be a million meals. I hope this video can help.
Hi Meghan ! I'm from Pakistan 🇵🇰 I like your video ..I'm new to your channel. Will you please do a meal planning video for irritable bowel syndrome.. I'm suffering from a long time..
I’ve been married for 8 years and have no master list of recipes 😩 I’ve had autoimmune issues so I’ve been vegetarian, vegan, gut healing, aip, keto……….. a million ingredients I can’t have but family can and cooking for my family has become the absolute bane of my existence. It takes up way too much of my mental energy- and our grocery bill is high but we’re starving half the time bc I have no idea what to make. It’s horrible.
I need HELP, and can’t afford a nutritionist!!!!! I’ve always been SUPER skinny and everyone always told me my metabolism would change in my 30’s….. it did but it got worse. I usually walked around 175 but now it’s 155 and nothing changed. I’m 6’2” so I look like I’m on drugs now and I don’t like it. I eat more than most. I have 4 kids to feed and I’m just confused because my kids are skinny too and we do need to store more fat because my levels are dangerously low. They hold a little more but not much. I find myself feeding us unhealthy because I’m trying to get the FATS in more and more and I’ve been told that when I eat all the fat out of 2lbs is unhealthy but I’ve always done that and with steak. I literally cook my 80/20 beef and poor the grease on noodles about once every 2 weeks just because I believe that’s a lot of fat. Please help. Even like 3 meals a week would be great because my wife worked for a professional chef for a couple years and he’d make me meal every night and I had gotten to 185 ( I still looked skinny but felt great). But I feel like I’m dying. I need about 4k calories a day i think
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I was skeptic about *Agoge Diet* because I thought that I would have to eat only broccoli to lose weight. I am eating only food I like and still losing weight.
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