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Meal Planner & Grocery List

A week of meals plus a costed shopping list that totals itself.

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13: live formulas, each one recalculated and checked
5: columns: Day, Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Servings
3: figures worked out for you

A household cutting food spend and waste — usually looking for this when food shopping is improvised and half of it goes off.

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Works in Excel 2013 and later, Microsoft 365, Google Sheets and LibreOffice Calc. Set up to print on one page wide. Version 1, updated 25 September 2026.

There are free templates. Why this one?

There are, and some are fine. The difference is what has been checked. This file was built from scratch, then every formula in it was recalculated by a separate checker that compares each result against an independently worked-out answer — 13 of them here. A template that looks right and totals wrong is worse than no template at all, and that is the usual failing of one downloaded from a search result.

It also opens with sample rows already filled in, so you can see every formula working before you touch it, and it is set up to print without fighting the page setup. No email wall, no signup, no watermark, and you can use it commercially.

About this Meal Planner & Grocery List template

Planning the week's meals saves money and ends the nightly 'what's for dinner' debate. This Excel meal planner sets out breakfast, lunch and dinner for each day with the number of servings, and includes a shopping list that totals itself.

The shopping summary shows the grocery total, the number of items on the list and the cost per serving.

Good for

→Planning a family's meals for the week
→Keeping the weekly food shop to a budget
→Batch cooking and meal prep

What it works out for you

Shopping

→Grocery total
→Items on the list
→Cost per serving

What is inside the Meal Planner & Grocery List template

The table has 5 columns. Calculated columns fill themselves in; the rest are yours to type over.

→Day
→Breakfast
→Lunch
→Dinner
→Servings

How to use the Meal Planner & Grocery List in Excel

Plan the week at the top, then build the shopping list below. The grocery total updates as you add items.

The file opens with sample rows so you can see every formula working before you change anything. Type your own figures over them. When you need more rows, insert them inside the existing block rather than underneath it, so the totals keep covering every row.