MEAL PLANNING for Beginners | 6 Easy Steps

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 really needed this cause I had no clue where to start

my grandmother made the same meal on the same day ,like every Saturday beans and hot dogs.

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Thank you for such a great video. Nicely done. 💐😁

Love the background music. Lovely video.

There is an app called “anylist” it is AMAZING. It copies the recipies from most sites. You can meal plan on it. And make grocery lists from each recipie. It’s incredible.

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!

great videos

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 like this video! It was useful

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.

Thank you for the useful tips!

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

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 didn't think meal planning was an actual thing 😕😕

I stopped liking meat when I had cancer 2015 so struggle to meal plan - However I like the idea of a rotating meal plan. SO keep the meal plans and rotate.

My biggest issue with meal planning is that I don't have any food that I like to eat so it's hard to pick food that we "love to eat"

DataRabbit on etsy has got the best meal planner i have seen out there. The whole shopping list and meal planning is automated so u dont have to do the thinking, fully customisable too so u can plan for days put and smoothies etc

This was so helpful! Thank you so much for sharing these tips !

You know this was rather simplistic, and THATs exactly what I needed. Thank you for reducing my anxiety around meal planning !!! Much gratitude.

Yes girl! What an awesome video. ❤

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.

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.

Shop my pantry/freezer first then write shopping list❤️

Try cooking double portions and freeze one every day ,then move this about you will soon amass lots of meals x x

Great tips! Thank you for creating this video!

Thank you for doing this. Making a master list of recipes is a great idea and I have never thought of that. Thank you. ❤️

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

I'm cooking for one, me. My husband's in a nursing home.

Thanks Meghan 😊 you're so awesome ❤️

off topic YOU'RE BEAUTIFULLLLLLL on topic, thanks for the advice! perfect tips.

1. prepare small pieces of paper
2. write down the names of the meal on each pieces
3.put all of them together , and every week (pick the names of the food that you want to cook, in my case, I pick randomly) and arrange them on the meal planner
4.according to the meal that you planned to cook, check the ingredients from the fridge ,pantry then make a grocery list
5.I take Monday off, that's the day I shop groceries, deal with the leftovers or just eat out

very helpful video, thx you very much

Surprised you did not go over what a balanced meal is in meal planning.
Nutritional meals.

THANK YOU FOR THIS GREAT VIDEO AND THESE USEFUL A D HELPFUL TOPS YOU GIVE!
HAPPY MEAL PLANNING🙏✝️☮️❤️🍽

Great video. So much money is saved by doing this and almost no wasted food.

Hi Meghan! Your video quality is beautiful. What camera do you use? Thanks, love your channel! M

Thanks very much for the help!!

First time on your channel, I subscribed because I like your approach and I can see that you have some really good content. I went from knowing how to prepare instant food only, to being a homemaker and stay at home parent and I started cooking more home made meals, so any organizational tips and ideas (like this ones in this video) is quite welcome!

I want to start

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 would love to meal plan. How do you motivate yourself when you have so many food sensivities to handle . Not able to use nightshades, dairies , Yeast, so many of plant based products have yeast/soy. Any suggestions to get around this. Thank you

Appreciate the reusable bags

Do you know when you find that one video that allows you to stop searching for answers on others? Yeah this video hit it home

Oh I so love all the tips that you have shared here.. saving your video so I could go back to it when I get ahold of a pen and paper 😊 Thank You! 💗🙏

I have always had problems with belly fat. After just one month of following diet plan from Agoge Diet, I can almost see my six pack. Don't wait, take your plan now!

You look so fragile

Thank you for this minimal approach to meal planning. Love it!