Meal Planner & Grocery Budget

Plan four weeks of meals, price them before you shop, and see what a day of food really costs. Recipes, grocery list, shopping log and pantry in one file.

7 tabs, all connected

• Start Here — Budget, household size, start date
• Dashboard — Planned vs spent, cost per person per day
• Meal Plan — 4 weeks x 7 days, priced
• Recipes — 50 recipes with cost per serving
• Grocery List — 120 items, totals by store
• Shopping Log — 300 real purchases
• Pantry — 60 items with expiry alerts
• Blank + Demo files — Start clean or explore the demo

What it does

Four weeks of meals, priced as you pick them

• Breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack from dropdowns
• Each day is costed from your own recipes
• Each week is totalled against your budget
• Over budget turns red, under turns green

Write a recipe once, use it forever

• Name, meal, how many it serves, what a batch costs
• Cost per serving calculates itself
• 50 slots, prep time and notes
• Ten recipes and you are set

What food really costs you

• Planned versus actually spent
• Cost per person per day
• Average shop and where the money goes
• Week by week against your budget

Price the list before you leave the house

• Item, category, quantity, estimated price, store
• Totals per store, and what is still to buy
• Tick things off in the shop on your phone
• Items already in your pantry are flagged

Stop buying what you already have

• What is in the cupboard and freezer
• Days left before the best-before date
• Use it now, Use soon, Fine - colour coded
• Uses today's date, so it is right every time

The real number, not the plan

• Date, store, amount, category
• 300 rows
• Feeds the dashboard comparison
• Shows which shop is quietly eating the budget

Set up in 15 minutes

1. Download & open — Open in Excel, or upload to Google Drive and choose 'Save as Google Sheets'.
2. Add ten recipes — The meals you actually cook, what a batch costs, how many it feeds. That is the only real work.
3. Plan and shop — Pick meals from the dropdowns, price the list, and log what you spend.

• Any currency, any country
• Rolling four weeks - change the start date and plan the next four
• Cream cells = type here, white cells = automatic

What you receive

An instant download containing a blank file to start clean, a demo file filled in so you can see how it works, and a short read-me. Works in Google Sheets (free) and in Microsoft Excel, on a phone, a tablet or a computer. Any currency, any country.

Digital download — nothing is posted. No refunds on digital files, but message us if anything does not work and we will fix it.