About
Free family meal planning, with recipes that actually suit your week
Why we built it
This started as our own problem. Every week, the online shop would come round and meal planning was a last minute scramble. We would end up buying roughly the same things, cooking roughly the same meals, and feeling stuck for ideas by Wednesday.
So we built something to fix it for ourselves. A set of family recipes we could filter by what mattered to us on a given week, with a shopping list that came out the other end ready to use. It worked. Meal planning stopped being a job and became about five minutes.
It seemed daft to keep that to ourselves, so we put it online and made it free. No subscription, no paywall, no account needed to browse.
What you can do on Free Weekly Meal Planner
- Filter recipes by cost per portion. Every recipe shows what it costs to feed one person, so you can plan a week around your actual food budget rather than guessing at the till.
- Filter by nutritional value. Calories, protein, carbs and fat are there on every recipe, and you can filter for high protein or under 500 kcal, so you can balance a week without reading fourteen labels.
- Build a weekly meal plan. Pick how many meals and how many people, and the site puts a week together from the recipes that match your filters. Lock the ones you like and swap the rest.
- Get an automatic shopping list. Once your week is planned, the site produces the full ingredient list. Tick off what is already in your cupboard and you are left with exactly what you need to buy. No duplicate tins of chopped tomatoes.
Who it is for
Families who cook most nights and would rather not think about it too hard. Parents doing the weekly online shop. Anyone feeding a household on a budget who wants a bit more variety than the same six dinners on rotation.
The recipes are family friendly by design. Straightforward ingredients, sensible cooking times, nothing that needs a specialist shop or an afternoon free.
Healthy family recipes on a budget
Eating well and spending less are usually treated as opposites. They are not. Most of what makes a weekly shop expensive is buying without a plan, then topping up mid week because nothing goes together. Planning the week properly does more for both the food bill and what ends up on the plate than any single clever recipe does.
That is really the whole idea behind the site. Plan once, shop once, cook without thinking about it.
Free, and staying free
Free Weekly Meal Planner is free to use. Browse the recipes, build your plan, take your shopping list. Share it with anyone you think would use it.
Free Weekly Meal Planner was created by Antony Molloy.