Plan the week's meals and the grocery list writes itself
A meal planner spreadsheet where you pick the week's meals from a recipe bank and the grocery list writes itself: every ingredient merged, added up, grouped by aisle, with what is in your pantry taken off and a weekly cost.
Who it is for
Anyone who plans meals for a household and is tired of writing the same list every week, buying things twice and going over the food budget.
What's inside (12 tabs + 4 bonus files)
- Cover and Start Here tab (use it in 5 minutes)
- Settings: currency, people eating, week start day, weekly budget, colour theme
- Recipe Bank with 36 starter recipes (28 dinners, breakfasts, lunches, snacks): add your own
- Ingredients tab: one line per ingredient with aisle and cost
- Weekly Planner: breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack for 7 days with dropdowns and the cost of each day
- Grocery List that writes itself, by aisle, with need, have, buy and cost
- Pantry Check: what you have is taken off the list; tick “low” to add a restock
- Weekly Budget: this week plus a 12-week log of budget against actual with a chart
- Example Week: a finished week to copy
- Printable tab: the week and the shopping list on one page
- Next Step tab
The signature feature: the grocery list writes itself
Pick meals from your recipe bank with dropdowns. The Grocery List merges the same ingredient across recipes, adds up the quantities (scaled to the number of people eating), groups everything by aisle, takes off what is already in your pantry and shows the weekly cost against your budget.
Bonuses (each its own file)
- 100 easy dinner ideas in 10 categories, with tried and loved boxes (3 pages)
- Printable weekly meal planner + grocery list by aisle, with a filled example (3 pages)
- Pantry staples checklist: 65 staples in 8 groups (2 pages)
- 4 ready-made weekly menus with grocery lists by aisle: budget, 30-minute, vegetarian, comfort classics (5 pages)
Formats
- Excel (.xlsx) with working formulas
- Google Sheets: copy link in the Quick Start (or upload the .xlsx)
- 6 colour themes switched from one Settings cell
- Bonus PDFs in A4 and US Letter, colour + ink-saver, fillable
- 2-page Quick Start
- Arithmetic and organisation only: not financial advice
How you get it
Click Buy now, check out securely, and download the ZIP instantly. Open the Quick Start first.
Save with the bundle: this tool is part of The Home Organizer Bundle, six home tools that work as one system.
Digital download · All sales final · For personal use
