How I MEAL PLAN for the WHOLE YEAR in less than 3 Hours | MEAL PLAN for 2021 with me!

What do you guys think? You want to give it a try?!

Love this video!! I am having a hard time coming up with enough meals though. We are a gluten free dairy free, sugar free family. Would you say those cook books aline with that?

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Hi, I just found you two days ago. This was the first video I watched, I had to come back to say I throughly enjoyed it! I always did a month of menus at a time, since we were paid monthly. I also shopped for groceries a month at a time. Lately I have gotten into freezer meals and gotten away from monthly planning. Do you ever freeze meals ahead for busy days or Sabbath days?

Years ago I made lists of our favorite meals by food type (beef, chicken, breakfast for dinner etc) and then made a google calendar where I would rotate the meal every 6 weeks. That seemed to work pretty well. I honestly hate to cook, so this does help!

What is the Special K meal, please?

Why do you not just use last year's plan for the current year? I really don't like planning meals, and that's just for myself. I can't imagine doing it for a whole family!

Just ordered the big grid calander and starting this next week. Love it

the idea of meal planning seemed to be so suffocating to me but you made it accessible. i am going to try this concept

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i need to plan BOTH dinner and lunch which are hot cooked meals in my country and i also have picky eaters so what my daughter eats my son won't so i need to double the recipes each time.
basically that means that i'm cooking 3-4 DIFFERENT meals A DAY and i'm having really hard time with meal planning.
what's your view on that? any idea???
it would be also cool to see your excel spreadsheet and how you organized/categorized that....

Do you share your Meal planning Excel sheet? I see you have a link for the excel program. I have excel, but I am curious how you organize your excel file.

Where can I get the cook books, the calendar and your spread sheet!!

Great ideals

I like your sense of organization.
I was worried at first that "meal planning" meant that you decided in advance details like, "how many potatoes to eat on June 6th or your actual shopping lists for the entire year.
For myself, I recently decided to have theme weeks. For example, a variety of Mediterranean dishes one week, or a variety of Mexican dishes the next, etc. I also have certain things that would be seasonal and so on.
I have a long-shot question.....I once bought some cookbooks from some students who were fundraising for an Adventist school in Tennessee. The books were definitely vegan. The books were lost in my last move. Do you have any clues on how I can find copies of a cookbook that would have been sold by an Adventist school?

How do you go about grocery shopping? Weekly, monthly, what items do you freeze?

Genius!

I'm organized in most areas of my life, but meal planning has always been a challenge. This method turned me into a new subscriber to the channel. It popped up in my search and I thought, 'a year in advance- that's nuts!', but I agree with the idea that it's much more efficient than weekly planning and can always be adjusted as needed. I laughed a little when you simply struck through an evening's meal plan. Very good illustration.

Lot's of great ideas here. I also watched the breakfast/lunch videos as well. Good idea to put the focus on the main meal just to keep life manageable. Keep the great videos coming. :- )

I did this 40 years ago when I went overseas on a mission, and bought my groc at Costco to ship over in one of my containers of building supplies, I was hooked and felt the peace of having a full pantry.

Are you SDA, I saw Special Kay Roast!!!

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You make this so easy to understand. You should be a teacher. 😇🥰

What time of meals are haystacks?

Hi there, thank you for this video! Just wondering if you ever considered reusing last year's meal plan for this year?

Hahahahahaha the stick up your butt must have a stick up its butt.

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I ordered the calendar. Will defiantly give it a try

I like this idea a lot.

What are your eleven build it meals? I know waffles and tacos, but what else?

I would love the Mac n cheese recipe please.

Love purple! And I am a pen thief so better keep an eye on it! Lmao 😂

Thank you!!!!! I never had anything like home economics. I sure wish I had. I learned what only my mom taught me, and she learned from my grandmother who was the last generation to have home ec in schools. This is amazing!! AND plant-based!?!?!?!? 😍😍😍🙏

I just found your channel and I absolutely love this idea. I have tried weekly, and monthly but this seems like the way to go! Do you ever change your meal plan after you've done it?

Love this! We have many food restrictions and rotate the same meals probably more often than most. I have to make everything from scratch so in really need to tackle this meal planning beast! So I have some work to do as far as creating categories with enough variety and searching for some new ideas. You have inspired me to get more than a season of meal planning done and i intend to find an app to help me get it on a calendar and generating shopping lists for me too. Well done and looking forward to what else your channel offers!

have you tried making 2 or 3 pot pies and freezing the 1-2 for later? it was a rare meal for us as well as my mom made homemade biscuits for topping hers and fresh was yum...

Awesome idea! Can you make another video on if and how, when you tweak the recipes? I assume you’re not eating the same exact recipe you wrote every week.Maybe I am wrong, so I would like to know more in depth on how it goes through the rest of the year.

I didn't grow up with any kind of meal planning in the household, so this has been a real challenge for me to get started. But I'm already big on budgeting and becoming debt-free, so I'm excited to get consistent with meal planning. P.S. As soon as I saw Special K Loaf and Haystacks I subbed because knew I'd like this channel :-)

so are you still sticking to the meal plan

I like the theme idea. I'm going to try this but change up my meals on a monthly basis. Great video!

I am studying your method and trying to implement it in my daily life. I am having a hard time meal prepping as I used to batch the ingredient preps. I find that it's more efficient if my weekly recipes are more or less coherent in which ingredients they require, and I like to prep in advance what I can so that my daily cooking is quicker. Do you have any tips for that or do you start from scratch each day?

Just found your channel today! I am so glad I did! This video was such an inspiration for my meal planning needs. I'd love to see how you transfer your meal plan into grocery lists. How often do you grocery shop, etc. I hope your channel takes off--it is great!

Totally mind blown, I try to meal plan for a week and husband is like no don’t want that.

What are the kinds of light suppers that you make? I only have like a couple and would love some ideas.

Special K casserole and Haystacks. Two of my faves! Your calendar is inspiring.

Wow!!! This is Brilliant!!! Thank you!! 😊

I would love to see what meals you have on your spreadsheet

This is just EXCELLENT. Thank you for the concise, methodical and warmly delivered breakdown. Very unique and streamlined.

I love this idea! I have been struggling staying with a meal plan because its so tedious to sit and ask everyone what kind of meals do you guys what to have this week. And I get frustrated but this is a method i am definitely going to try

I hope to try this!! Unfortunately I need to build up a bigger collection of recipes first 😂 I’m going to begin building my loop lists by category. I got the calendar and regardless of whether I end up meal planning my entire year, I love the calendar! Thanks Kassy

I would LOVE. To meal plan this way but we are transitioning to empty nester and plant based way of eat so our family favorites and tried and true recipes do not really fit anymore.

Yesterday, I stood at the self checkout in our local grocery store and for once in my life I was like 😳 "What am I doing spending $43.00 on a dinner meal!?" Now I'm here 😊 HELP!