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

Say What!?!?! Yep, it's true, I meal plan for my entire year every December. This time, I decided to time the entire process and show you exactly how I do it. Why do I plan out my menu this way? I'm so glad you asked. I'll answer all of your questions about the crazy way I meal plan in this video... and I'll let you be the judge of if I'm crazy or not :)

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0:00 Intro
1:04 Why I Meal Plan for the Whole Year
5:33 Meal Planning Tools
8:59 How To Meal Plan Your Year
21:30 How Much Time Did It Take?

Music: Epidemic Sound

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[kassyeichele]

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

[kimberbeardsley]

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.

[sampsondavidj]

Great video. I started meal planning by week, then by month. I started dreaming about doing it by year, but felt it would be too inaccurate. My perspective has now been changed. I'm obviously not a mom, but I am an engineer who constantly tries to optimize things. This video probably saved me years of studying, testing, and learning and by my estimates about 36 hours a year from the weekly method I once did. It could save about 21 hours a year from the monthly method that I currently do. I feel I need to find your theme night video.

[aileenortega]

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

[rp]

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!

[mollysmith]

Thank you for sharing your process. Meal planning is a real challenge for this season of life...empty-nesters who basically have two different eating styles. Your theme idea is smart and allows so much freedom, love it!

[creativelycountry]

Currently mindblown here 🤯🤯😃!!! Love this concept!! I’m thinking of exactly how I’d like to implement it. Love implementing seasonal meals in, love themes that still provide variety. I saw the title and was like what? No way!! Then watched the video and was like I totally need to try this in a bit of a tweaked form.

[StephanieGiese]

I love this idea and you have such a natural talent for talking to the camera! I already do theme nights as well, like tacos Tuesday, pasta on Wednesdays, etc. so I bet it wouldn't take every long to fill out a calendar and take a lot of stress off myself for the rest of the year. (Honestly, I could probably just do two months and keep repeating them forever, and I doubt my family would ever even notice.)

[clewismessina]

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. :- )

[TheSunshinefee]

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

[royramsey]

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

[withoutlimitsbudgets]

This is absolutely genius and next level. Amazing! I’m going to work on this through the next couple of weeks and try this method myself especially with a prepper pantry. This would help me restock my pantry know what I need when I need and how much I need and I won’t have to worry about meal prepping on a weekly basis because I’ve been falling off the tracks on that this would definitely be a game changer. Thank you so much for sharing new subscriber. 2:59 3:04

[Butterflies.and.Tulips]

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!

[CelesteSeeker]

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 :-)

[mayhemschild]

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

[VardaoftheStars]

Thank 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!?!?!?!? 😍😍😍🙏

[bnjjohnson]

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!

[artfullyaimee]

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

[Busybeemiss]

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!

[brendagallardo]

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