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These free meal planner templates give you 8 Word documents on A4 and US Letter: a weekly meal planner, a meal planner with a shopping list, a monthly meal planner and a packed lunch or lunch box planner. I’m Patrick Elliott, a teacher and Inclusion Lead. I plan family meals and school lunches every week, so I built these to plan the meals and the shopping together in a few minutes.

In this guide, you’ll find which planner suits your household, and how to plan a week of meals in ten minutes.

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What’s in the Meal Planner Templates

Paper	Version	Best for
A4	Weekly Meal Planner	Breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks
A4	Meal Planner with Shopping List	Plan the week and the shop together
A4	Monthly Meal Planner	A dinner for every day of the month
A4	Packed Lunch Planner	Five days of school lunches
US Letter	Weekly Meal Planner	Breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks
US Letter	Meal Planner with Shopping List	Plan the week and the shop together
US Letter	Monthly Meal Planner	A dinner for every day of the month
US Letter	Lunch Box Planner	Five days of school lunches

👉 Every box is a Word table cell, so you can type your meals and save the plan to reuse next month.

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What Is a Meal Planner?

A meal planner is a page where you decide the week’s meals in advance. It saves money and time, cuts food waste, and ends the daily what’s for dinner question, because the shopping list comes straight from the plan.

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Which Meal Planner Should You Use?

• Weekly meal planner: breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks for seven days, in landscape.
• Meal planner with shopping list: lunch and dinner for the week and a shopping list in six sections.
• Monthly meal planner: a dinner for every day of the month, laid out like a calendar.
• Packed lunch or lunch box planner: main, fruit and vegetables, snack and drink for each school day.

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How to Plan a Week of Meals

1. Check what you already have in the fridge and cupboards.
2. Plan dinners first, then fill in lunches and breakfasts.
3. Use leftovers: cook extra one night for the next day’s lunch.
4. Write the shopping list from the plan, then shop once.

Save a few weekly plans you like and rotate them: after a month you have a ready-made set of plans to reuse.

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How to Print at the Right Size

Print at 100% on plain paper. The weekly and monthly planners print in landscape; stick one on the fridge for the week.

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FAQs

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Conclusion

These meal planner templates make the week’s food simple to plan and shop for, human-made by a teacher and ready to print or fill in from Word.

Choose your paper size above, download the ZIP, and for a full shopping list, try the shopping list templates.

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Related Tutorials

• Free Shopping List Templates for Word
• Free Budget Templates for Word
• Free Weekly Planner Templates for Word