Meal Planner and Grocery List Binder

With this binder, you decide the week's meals once and shop once. There are three weekly layouts to choose from. A grocery list and a prep list run beside the breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack rows on the full weekly planner. The menu plan fits a week and its shopping list on one page. The What's for Dinner page has seven dinner cards and space for ideas for next week. For longer stretches, there's a monthly planner with a dinner for each day and a four-week dinner rotation.

Before you plan, the first pages collect what the family likes. There's a food preferences page for up to six people, with favorite meals, foods they won't eat and allergies, plus pages of meal ideas and family favorites rated in stars. When it's time to shop, the grocery list is sorted into nine store sections, and a master list has 76 everyday items to tick.

The rest of the binder keeps the kitchen in order. Pantry, fridge and freezer inventories and a use-it-up list help cut food waste, and a budget tracker and a price comparison for three stores keep costs in check. Recipes get full pages, cards and an index, and a holiday dinner planner covers guests, menu, shopping and a cooking timeline.

• Cover, how to use and a goals page
• Family food preferences for 6 people, meal ideas and family favorites
• Weekly meal planner, one-page menu plan and shopping list, What's for Dinner cards
• Meal prep planner, daily planner with a water tracker, monthly planner and 4-week dinner rotation
• Grocery list by aisle, master grocery list and shopping lists, 2 per page
• Grocery budget tracker and a 3-store price comparison
• Full-page recipe sheet, recipe cards (2 per page), recipes to try and a cost-per-serving tracker for budget meals
• Pantry (50 items), fridge and freezer inventories and a use-it-up list
• Holiday dinner planner, recipe index, kitchen conversions and notes

In the print dialog, set the scale to Actual size (100%). The planner lives in a binder, and the current week's page goes on the fridge. In a sheet protector, the master grocery list can be ticked off with a dry-erase marker and wiped clean each week. Card stock is best for the recipe cards, which have a dashed cutting line.