5-Minute Meal Planning Hack (never stress about dinner again!)

Does this also create a grocery list from the meals you add? I’ve been looking for something like this that can create my list for me, so that would be awesome if it can!

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This is exactly what I need to actually start meal planning consistently! I love this, thank you =)

So confusing!! 😢

Waw, thank you very much for this video! We where just thinking about starting meal preap and your video is very inspiring!!! 🎉
P.s. greetings from Republic of Moldova

You can use a tool like Save to Notion to create a Recipe form that uses your template and can add link, body copy of content and image automatically.

Paprika app lets you import recipes directly from the web… no typing. Just thought you might like to try it out. Also has meal planning and grocery list abilities. It has Pc or Mac compatible software too. The best thing is in a website you just click to share to Paprika and it imports the whil recipe into the software in one click. The software can scale the recipe after it is saved as well! It is amazing and far more streamlined that this process. I’m not trying to knock your way, just thought I’d share an even easier one!

I use the Paprika app for recipes and meal planning. It’s way less confusing.

You are amazing! Thank you!

I wish I could meal prep. I can't ever decide what I want to eat, so planning on next Tuesday dinner wouldn't work for me. 75% of the time I eat brinner, cause nothing sounds good.

I’m not able to eat meals like these anymore, as I suffer from Gastroparesis & am never hungry.

When a child my Mum worked, so my Dad cooked the tea. We used to have the same things every week, such as meat & homemade chips on a Monday (Frozen ones weren’t available then) toad-in-the-hole on a Tuesday etc. This made it so much easier for my Dad.

When I got older I did the same kind of thing, but with ready meals. (I hate cooking)

Olive is so cute. x

Would you ever share more links to some of your favorites? A saw a few that looked delicious!!!

I love meal planning for the week. I sit down in my kitchen on Saturday morning, with a cup of coffee and a couple of my favorite cookbooks and I just look at the beautiful pictures until I find something I want to eat. Sometimes I sit down with my iPad and I look at my recipes collection on Pinterest. Alternatively I will browse the Cookidoo app that I use for my Thermomix . Other times I will browse the app of my favorite supermarket, where they also have recipes. It’s my favorite part of Saturday. I pick 3-4 dinner recipes for the week, and I write those down on a ‘meal plan sheet’ , which is a ready template I found on the internet and printed out in 50 copies. I use one piece of paper every week, so 50 is enough for the entire year of meal planning. The template has a weekly meal plan on the left and a shopping list on the right, so I have an overview of everything on one page. I copy all ingredients from 3-4 recipes onto the shopping list , then I add the regular things we eat every week for breakfast and lunch and voila, I can send my husband to the supermarket with the shopping list or I can order everything online in the supermarket app. Easy. 😊once the groceries are at home I simply hang the meal plan in the kitchen and I do not have to think about meals during the week. I also make sure that the dinner recipes are quick easy and even my teenage kids can make them. I cook one recipe for two days of dinners, Sometimes I pre-make meals (like lasagna) for two days on Sunday and then I do not bake it right away but store it in the fridge , so it’s ready to pop into the oven during the week.. Once you get into a habit of sitting down to make a meal plan once a week, it’s a breeze

Just a big infomercial 😢

So it's actually a commercial

My 11 year old daughter has been trying to get me on this haha. She’s going to be very happy I’m learning.

I love the way your brain works. This was a bit confusing for me but I love that something like this exists. Will definitely check it out, never heard of notion before

Honestly I'd love more videos on just what you make. I like seeing what other families make for their meals and getting fresh ideas

I have been using this same template for a year now and it is so helpful! I also added in a column for school lunches and a row for snacks for the week since we started kindergarten this year and lunches were getting on top of me. I also keep my grocery list in the doc so that everything is easy to cross reference. The only way it could get better would be if it auto populate my shopping list. I find that is what actually takes the most time. I used an app for a while that did it but this is free and worked well for what I use it for. I’m definitely going to add the meal prep section cause I want to do more of that!

Amazing video. Thank you for sharing!!

Thank you! Love Olive…

I loved your idea to preprep slow cooker meals for the freezer and would love to see what the meals are that you do that with

Wow! This is exactly what I need in my life right now. As working mom of 2 under 4, my life is so chaotic. And I never knew how to mealplan efficiently. I am totally giving this a go this week. Thank you for sharing!

Meanwhile it's a win if I physically write it down 😂

I use a menu plan system from a fellow you tuber & it’s way easier 😊

Do I need to do an upgrade in order for my Notion Meal Planner page to look like yours? Mine is not in a table format

This is awesome! Thank you for sharing it!

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Ok maybe do need notion 😅 I’ve been thinking about trying it for a while and this looks like it would work really well for me.

What if you're really craving something completely different? The foody in me betrays me all the time. 😭

You could add in the comments of the recipes what things you could prep when you’re doing the input. That way it’s easy to see and copy/paste when you go thru the whole week

Hi, great video, thanks for sharing. I've been using Notion for a while and never thought about using it for meal planning. Although I can't sign up for the Notion meal planning page - it doesn't work for me. Could you please check?

This is so helpful and exactly what I needed. Thank you!

I bought the Souper Cubes (1-cup portion freezer tray) that you recommended, and it's been great. Perfect for lunch-sized portions of soups and stews. Thanks Cali.

Thank you! This is great!!

Some of your recipes look great. Maybe a video on where you get a lot of your recipes?

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️❤ Kallie Love you❤ ! ⚠️⚠️BUT regardless of whether or not you wear shoes in the house, when you ALWAYS show yourself folding laundry on the floor, especially towels, especially on the carpet, it is DISGUSTING (so did the person in the comforter video). Dirt, dust, PETs, make doing so absolutely gross. 🤮🤮🤮 ❤❤❤ ⚠️⚠️ Putting this in every video until this is addressed!