Meal planner
This free, Google Sheets-based tool removes the time and guesswork from meal planning by providing a meal planning template, crowd-sourced recipes, and auto-calculating an itemized grocery list. Watch this short tutorial to get started.
Scroll down for the template and more information.
Instructions
Follow the instructions in the orange cells at the top of the spreadsheet. In summary:
1) Make an edit-able copy of the sheet template by clicking here (you will need a free Google account to make edits to the sheet).
2) Choose a start date to generate a two-week long meal planner template.
3) Choose recipes for each date/meal/course as-needed. You can choose from pre-existing recipes in the data set or manually write-in your own. You can add them to the data set later for inclusion in itemized grocery calculator.
4) Choose the number of adult and child servings for each meal.
5) Find your itemized grocery list. Any recipes in your planner that are not yet in the data set will be totaled by the rounded number of servings.
6) If you would like to add a recipe to this project, you can do so via this form (note that any recipes added will become publicly and permanently available to other users).
Enjoy!
Skills involved: Data management, programming, process optimization, training media/documentation, Google Sheets.