![]() The little bit of prep time at home has been well worth it for the hassle it saves me at the store when carting two little ones with me! I figured I can’t be the only person that ends up walking the full length of the grocery store multiple times each shopping trip because I forgot something on the other side of the store! The categorized grocery list has made my shopping quicker and more efficient – and it only takes me a few minutes at home to use the list to prep. In addition to designing this free weekly meal planner, I also designed a categorized grocery list to go with it. ![]() ![]() However, when I began to actually plan meals out for a week I couldn’t believe how much less stressful cooking became to me! I no longer carried an all-day burden of trying to determine what I could make – I knew exactly what I planned to cook each evening AND I knew that I had all of the ingredients to do it! It wasn’t until I began creating a meal planning template to offer here that I started to use it myself (sad, I know). I truly didn’t realize the amount of unnecessary stress I was carrying but not simply planning ahead a bit for our family dinners. I often felt stress throughout the day trying to think through what ingredients I had on hand to try to throw together a dinner for the evening. To be honest, I didn’t really meal plan much except by thinking up a vague mental list of what I wanted to make for the week before I went to the grocery store. In my first several years of motherhood I felt a lot of stress about meal planning. Free Printable Meal Planner & Grocery List For Weekly Planning ![]()
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