First meal plan of the year: Healthy meals on a tight budget!

🍴 How to make a meal plan for simple weeks + saving money!

If there’s one routine I swear by as busy mum of three kids (who’s not naturally organised) it’s weekly meal planning. For the 10 minutes it takes each week, meal planning has the biggest payoff in terms of keeping our kitchen organised, our routines peaceful, and our food budget down.

The meal planning system we’ve come to love isn’t just filling meals into gaps on a chart, but a series of intentional steps from choosing frugal foods to making sure nothing at all is wasted. It makes sure everything works and serves our life and I’m going to take you through the meal planning part today - so grab paper and a pen and we’re going to make an effective meal plan for YOUR life.

RECIPES AND FOOD RESOURCES:

⭐️ Download a free meal planning template with the sections I use in this video in this blog post: https://www.thewholehome.co.uk/how-to...

⭐️ Frugal Chicken Taco soup recipe from chicken carcasses: https://www.thewholehome.co.uk/chicke...
⭐️ 2 x Budget Friendly Organic Chicken Carcasses: https://tidd.ly/3vFFbD2
⭐️ Recipes for Pizza, Granola, Waffle, Beans and Rice, Toast, Mac + Cheese Recipes are all in this ebook: https://3a2d01-62.myshopify.com/produ...
⭐️ Customisable Organic Veg Box (UK delivery): https://tidd.ly/4j8t4SH

FOOD PLANNING + BUDGETING VIDEOS:

⭐️ How much should YOU be spending on food?    • 🤷‍♀️ How much should you be spending on fo...  
⭐️ A week in the life of our sourdough starter:    • A week in the life of our sourdough starte...  
⭐️ Everything we ate in a week:    • WHAT OUR FAMILY ATE IN A WEEK! 21 Budget f...  
⭐️ What a weekly shop looks like:    • FAMILY of 5, ORGANIC FOOD SHOP on a BUDGET...  


TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Why we meal plan + our budget
5:07 Know why you’re meal planning
6:25 Trick to budget for days + meals without a meal plan
7:17 Setting up to learn week on week
8:27 Setting up YOUR meal plan + shopping structure
10:41 You CAN’T have it all! Choose your wins!
11:31 Flexibility vs Meal planning
12:10 Let’s Plan!
13:37 Step 1 - What’s leftover?
15:14 Step 2 - Add in (decide on!) some regular meals
16:30 Step 3 Fill in the rest of the plan from our go to list
24:10 Balancing Expensive Meals
25:04 Involving kids
25:20 Step 4 - Checking the meal plan
25:58 At the shops