Pantry to Plate Meal Planner | Excel & Google Sheets | Weekly Menu Planner, Auto Grocery List, Recipe Organizer, Pantry Inventory & Food Budget Tracker

Sunday evening. Fridge half full, no plan, and somebody is already asking what’s for dinner tomorrow.

Pantry to Plate fixes that in about five minutes a week.

You choose meals for each day. The workbook does the rest. It totals every ingredient, checks your pantry, works out what you still need, rounds it up to the packs you’d actually buy and sorts the list in the order you walk the store. You see the shopping bill before you leave home, and you stop buying a third jar of the same sauce.

What it does

• Plans 7 days x 5 meal slots, with servings and prep notes for each day
• Builds your grocery list automatically from the plan
• Subtracts what you already have in the fridge, freezer and cupboards
• Rounds quantities to whole packs and prices them against your weekly budget
• Sorts the list by aisle, in your store’s order
• Adds up calories, protein, carbs and fat per person, per day, with an On target / Under / Over status
• Flags food that’s about to expire, right on the dashboard
• Scales any recipe up or down on the Recipe Card

Who it’s for

Busy families. Budget-conscious shoppers. Meal preppers and batch cooks. Anyone tracking calories or macros who’d rather not juggle three apps. And anyone tired of the 5pm dinner panic.

What’s included (14 tabs)

1. Start Here: 6-step quick start, links to every tab, colour key
2. Dashboard: 6 live stat cards, this week’s menu, expiring food and 4 charts
3. Weekly Plan: 5 meal slots x 7 days, servings, prep notes, daily nutrition, goal status, food cost
4. Grocery List: auto list with need, have, to buy, packs, cost and aisle, plus an extras list and budget bar
5. Print List: a clean one-page printable checklist
6. Pantry: stock by fridge, freezer and pantry with use-by countdowns and colour-coded status
7. Recipe Card: pick any recipe and serving count, every quantity rescales
8. Recipes: your recipe book with type, cuisine, diet tag, time, difficulty, star rating, favourites, nutrition, method and links (room for 200)
9. Recipe Ingredients: the ingredient lines behind each recipe (room for 800)
10. Ingredients: master library with aisle, unit, pack size, pack price and keep-in-stock minimums (95 included, room for 300)
11. Monthly Plan: a full month calendar for breakfast, lunch and dinner with monthly cost and stats
12. Water Tracker: daily hydration log with goal, progress dots, mood and chart
13. Weight Tracker: weekly weigh-ins, exercise, progress to goal and a trend chart
14. Settings: household size, week start day, currency, budget, goals and every dropdown list

Your download

• Pantry-to-Plate-Meal-Planner.xlsx: the full planner with a sample week, 26 starter recipes and a stocked pantry so you can see it working straight away
• Pantry-to-Plate-Meal-Planner-BLANK.xlsx: the same planner, empty and ready for your meals (ingredient library and all formulas kept)
• Pantry-to-Plate-User-Guide.docx: a 20-page illustrated guide with step-by-step setup, every feature explained, troubleshooting and FAQs

How it works

1. Enter your household size, budget and goals in Settings
2. Add your favourite recipes and what goes in them (or start with the 26 included)
3. Note what’s already in your pantry
4. Pick meals on the Weekly Plan
5. Open the Grocery List. It’s done.

File format & requirements

• .xlsx workbook. Works in Microsoft Excel 2016 or newer (Windows and Mac), Microsoft 365, and Google Sheets (free Google account)
• Opens on phones and tablets with the free Excel or Google Sheets apps
• No macros, add-ons or scripts. Nothing to install
• User guide in .docx (opens in Word, Google Docs, Pages or LibreOffice)

Make it yours

Rename the meal slots. Pick any day as your week start. Change the currency symbol. Add your own aisles, units, cuisines and diet tags. Swap in local prices once and every list after that is priced for you. Metric and imperial units both work.

Digital download

This is a digital product. Nothing physical is shipped. Your files are ready to download as soon as payment goes through. For personal use. Nutrition figures in the sample recipes are estimates for planning, not medical or dietary advice.