Are you looking to spend less time in the kitchen preparing meals? Like most of us, would you prefer to know what you will be eating for an entire week in advance?
Do you want to take the stress and guesswork out of cooking, save money, and time that can be invested elsewhere?
If you’re that person, you need a weekly meal planner notebook.
This is a nifty way to take charge of your meals and eat healthier through planning.
If you are looking for a planner to keep organizing your meals at home, here are some weekly meal planner books to consider.
Weekly Meal Planner Notebooks
Most weekly meal planners will be designed with similar elements. However, some planners will include more features than others.
You may find it a tad difficult to choose a weekly meal planner notebook because the interiors are synonymous.
The rule of thumb is to select a planner based on the exterior design, book size, cover form (paperback or hardcover) or the need to support a particular author/publisher.
All the meal planners to follow were designed by me. For a list of weekly meal planner notebooks designed by other publishers, please skip to the bottom for suggestions.
I would appreciate, however, if you chose to support my small publishing business.
Weekly Meal Planner Notebook #1: Strawberry & Kiwi Design
Price: $5.99
Size: 6 x 9”
Pages: 106
Features and Benefits:
- A weekly grid containing all the days of the week to enter the meals you want. This allows you to view what you’ll be having for the week immediately. The grid slots can easily be populated with breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
- 52 weekly grid: This feature allows you to plan your meals for an entire year, week-by-week.
- Grocery List: This is a checklist section that allows you to add all the food items you’ll need to bring your meals to life. There’s also the option to check each box as the items are bought.
- Notes Section: If you need additional space to list grocery items or special details you need to remember, this section accommodates that. You may choose to add information about desserts and snacks if you so desire.
- Design Cover: The cover design of this weekly meal planner notebook integrates the beautiful colors of fruits such as strawberries, kiwis, and grapefruits. The cover is held together with a neon green spine, and a black base on which text is written.
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Weekly Meal Planner Notebook #2: Cherry Design
Price: $5.99
Size: 6 x 9”
Pages: 106
Features and Benefits:
- List Design: Unlike the strawberry and kiwi weekly meal planner design, the interior of this one is created using lists. Each list is dated from Monday to Sunday, with designated areas for breakfast (B), lunch (L), and dinner (D).
- Grocery List: A section to use as a shopping list. This section contains more bullet areas than the strawberry and kiwi meal planner.
- Ruled Note Section: This section is about half of the page. Add whatever information you need in this slot.
- 52 Weeks of Meal Planning: Plan your meals weekly for an entire year.
- Design Cover: This meal planner’s cover wears a vibrant design with cherries on a black backdrop. The spine of the book is neon yellow.
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Weekly Meal Planner Notebook #3: Pink, Lavender, and Purple Design
Price: $6.25
Size: 7 x 10”
Pages: 106
Features and Benefits:
- Grid-Based Design: The grid design makes for a beautiful and organized interior. It is easy on the eyes, compact, and functional.
- Weekly Grids: Grids are allotted for each day of the week to ensure you have enough space to take notes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
- Snack, Desserts, and Grocery List: Unlike the other weekly meal planning notebook, this one contains designated areas for snacks, desserts, and grocery lists. Simply differentiate between the items you’ll need for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, away from your snacks and desserts.
- Tips: Not only are you equipped to plan your meals, but you’re given tips related to meal planning, food storage, health, and much more. There are 52 tips in total.
- Week of: This is an un-dated section that allows you to enter the week you are planning for. If you miss a week, there is no need to worry, as this information is not prepopulated.
- Notes: Just at the bottom of the page, you will find a section to enter miscellaneous information. This could be dietary information or otherwise.
- Design Cover: This meal planner was designed using feminine colors of purple, lavender, and pink. The cover is dressed in different kitchen items like cups, kettles, mittens, and others.
Weekly Meal Planner Notebook #4: Peach Design
Price: $5.99
Size: 6 x 9”
Pages: 106
Features and Benefits:
- A combination of grids, dotted, and ruled lines: The interior uses a combination of grids and dotted and ruled lines that work well together. This includes slots to enter weekly meals for all the days of the week, for 365 days. There is a grocery list section for shopping and dotted lines to add additional notes.
- Design Cover: The cover is dressed in peaches on a brown, almost black background. The peach pattern has hints of magenta at the sides and is accentuated with yellow spine and a circle in the middle of the cover.
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My Weekly Meal Planner$5.99
Other Weekly Meal Planner Books
For other meal planner notebooks, here’s a list of items you can source from Amazon.
