How to plan meals for a week
Plan for the week you will actually have, not the one where nothing goes wrong. That means fewer meals and more flexibility than most plans allow.
What matters here
- Plan five dinners, not seven
- Repeat two meals you already know
- Match effort to the day's energy
- Build the shopping list from the plan
- Leave one night for leftovers
Five is enough
Seven planned dinners is a plan for a perfect week. Five leaves room for leftovers, a takeaway and a night when nobody wants to cook, which is most weeks.
Effort matching
Monday and Tuesday are usually fine; Thursday is not. Put the quick meals where the energy is lowest, and the longer ones where you have time rather than ambition.
The one list
Build the shopping list from the plan in one pass, grouped by section. Shopping from memory while planning in your head is how the same three ingredients get bought four times.
Frequently asked questions
Keep reading
- How to run a sprint planning sessionSprint planning produces a committed set of work for a fixed period. It needs capacity first, then selection, then a shared definition of done.
- How to run a quarterly planning sessionQuarterly planning picks a small number of outcomes for three months and removes what no longer matters. One session, a few hours, one page of output.
- What is MCP?MCP, the Model Context Protocol, is a standard way for AI tools to read and act on data in other apps through a small set of defined operations.
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