May Meal Plan
In the spirit of full-disclosure it has been months since I’ve completed my normal once-a-month grocery shopping and monthly meal planning routine. During the last 3-months we’ve had at least one major traveling event each month. I fell off my OAMS horse by running to the store haphazardly; which hasn’t happened often in the last 3-years that I’ve shopped once a month.
Don’t worry, life is getting back to normal; the first sign of which is my stocked pantry, refrigerators and meal plan laid out. By looking at my May plan you’ll see in total Jamerrill-cooking-for-a-herd-fashion I plan to make too much and creatively re-serve my bulk cooking to my family.
I’m destined to have 12 kids, and that’s a good thing! 
If you’d like to see my May meal plan up close you can download it here: May Meal Plan PDF
Free Meal Planning Printables
I have several free meal planning printables for your downloading pleasure. These are weekly and monthly meal planning pages.
You can print out fresh forms for every week and month. In addition, you can reuse your favorite forms by laminating them or sliding the page in a plastic sheet protector, filling in the sheets with dry erase marker.
Here are the free meal planning printables:
Four weekly meal planning pages
Monthly meal planning page 1
Monthly meal planning page 2
Monthly meal planning page 3
Monthly meal planning page 4
Updated 1/2013: Here are my updated free winter themed meal planning printables.
Updated 2/2013: Here are my updated Free Monthly and Weekly Meal Planners: Valentine’s Themed for February
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Enjoy! And happy meal planning!
Thank you for all that you do to encourage us new homeschool moms. The Q&A section on the facebook page on Saturdays is awesome, and I’ve learned a lot from it. After a few weeks of upheaval at my house (out of town, helping my in-laws get their new business up and running), I decided last night that I need to plan meals better. I’ve been planning dinners for years, but for breakfast and lunch, we just wing it. And, lo and behold, I sit down with my green tea to start putting together a spreadsheet and there in my inbox is the link to your post with printable weekly meal planning sheets. God is good! Thank you again!
Thank you, Kelly. I’m always so encouraged by our facebook talks. There are so many moms’ with great wisdom. I’m so glad that the free meal planning printables found you on the day that you needed them too!
without a weekly/monthly menu, my life would be chaos! Thank you for making some fun and CUTE ones, it makes planning seem like fun, rather than a chore!
You’re so welcome. I love CUTE!
Thank you for these printables! They are so cute! I got your link from the Money Saving Mom site!
These are so great!! Great minds think alike though, because I have set up my menus just like yours for awhile now, but I did them by hand so it took some time to do, these will save a lot of time for me. Thank you for using your gifts to share with others! It is so nice to see women who want to help and encourage eachother instead of keeping it to ourselves!!
Thank you for these FREE printables! I have been using the same style weekly planner for over a year now (store bought pad with tear off sheets) and LOVE it! It saves us so much money each month b/c I know what is happening the night before and can start preparing! I work on Tuesdays and Wednesdays so I always plan a crockpot meal for those days and can prepare them so all I have to do in the morning is place the crock in the heating mechanism! Having FREE printables will save us that much more money!
I found you through Money Saving Mom today and am excited to explore your blog b/c we have chosen to start homeschooling in the fall!
Thank You!
Karen
LOve to find women who are organized, because I am not. Thanks for the helpful post.
YAY! Thanks!
Love your blog. I work with a tight budget and love reading your idea’s.
These weekly, monthly meal planning printables are just what I’ve been looking for. Finding these today after a long hard day of being a mom, has touched me in a special way. Thanks!
You are so welcome, Kim. I have new bi-weekly planners in the works too.
Thank you!!!
I’m nearing the end of my meal planning days (last child is HS senior) and I just recently read a great idea. It suggested that you either keep your meal planning sheets and bind them together at the end of the year. Or bind them together in January when you print out new ones. It will give you dozens (hundreds) of pre-done ideas as time goes by.
You can get a stack of 52 pages spiral bound at Office Depot-type stores for ~$5, including plastic waterproof front and back covers, if you don’t have a home binding machine.
Being funny… you have to picture me slapping my forehead when I read this idea (on Pinterest, I think). “Are you kidding me??! I’m just now learning this?! After 27 years of meal planning?!!” /grin/
I love the cute printable meal planning sheets, but ALL of them, that I’ve found, run a calendar week. I don’t do my shopping on Saturday, I do it mid-week, so I want to be able to have a meal-planning sheet that runs from the day after I do my main shopping. Does anyone know of any cute printables that let me write in the days of the week instead of having it pre-printed for the calendar week?