Maybe you have decided to eat healthier as a family, but you have realized you NEED a meal plan to do it! Now you are wondering, ‘how do I go about developing and incorporating a meal plan for my family?’ That is why I put together this collection of meal planning recourses for you. Now you can find everything you need to start your exciting, fun, and healthy meal planning journey.
Below is a list of my favorite meal plan resources and why?
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The Best Meal Planning Books, Apps, and Products: A collection of meal planning recourses for you. Now you can find everything you need to start your exciting, fun, and healthy meal planning journey.
52-Week Meal Planner: The Complete Guide to Planning Menus, Groceries, Recipes, and More
I LOVE to feel organized. Getting organized takes the weight off your shoulders, doesn’t it?!?! That is why I love this book! The goal of this book is to help you organized your meals for a whole year! This meal planner includes:
- One year’s worth of weekly templates to plan breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks
- Grocery lists and price comparison sheets
- Recipe pages
This wonderful origination tool is written by registered dietitian, Jessica Levinson, MS, RDN, CDN.
The Nourishing Meal Builder
Created by a dietitian (that’s me!), The Nourishing Meal Builder shows you how to create anti-inflammatory, anti-anxiety, mood boosting, immune supportive meals that reduce the risk of chronic disease and promote cognitive function, focus, attention, and memory.
The Meal Builder Cards included in The Nourishing Meal Builder takes the stress out of meal planning. In fact, you don’t have to do much meal planning ahead at all!
You simply use the food list to grocery shop! Then when you are ready to cook a meal, you use the included meal builder cards to create a nourishing meal on the spot! It’s so easy and the meal possibilities are endless!
Your 6-Week Guide to LiveBest: Simple Solutions for Fresh Food & Well-Being
This book also made an appearance in my “Healthy Living Books Written by Registered Dietitians,” but I thought this book fit well in this list as well. This 6-week guide includes more than 100 breakfast, lunch, and dinner solutions. In this book, you will find simple, realistic solutions as wells as assessments, food tips and meal ideas to help you live a happier, healthier, and stronger life.
Plant-Powered for Life: 52 Weeks of Simple, Whole Recipes and Habits to Achieve Your Health Goals―Starting Today
If you want your meal plan to be full of flavorful, nutritious plant-based foods; then, this is the book for you. This guide, which is broken down into 52 weeks, provides 125 A-MAZING plant-based recipes!
The Healthy Meal Prep Cookbook: Easy and Wholesome Meals to Cook, Prep, Grab, and Go
Our lives are so busy that we often don’t have much time to plan and cook our foods. This is why meal prepping is soooo beneficial! Toby Smithson provides so many meal prepping tips and solutions in her book. This book is perfect for busy families who want to find a way to eat healthy on a busy schedule.
This book includes:
- Helpful tips,
- Meal plans,
- Shopping lists,
- Storage solutions
- Healthy recipes
- Healthy Grab and Go Snacks
- And More…
Diabetes Meal Planning and Nutrition For Dummies
As soon as I discovered this book, I knew I had to include it here. Deciding what to eat on a diabetic diet, can feel overwhelming. This books takes out the guesswork by helping you easily plan your meals. Diabetes Meal Planning and Nutrition for Dummies includes tons of helpful information like healthy eating tips for diabetes, food swap ideas, and of course, yummy recipes!
Mindfulness in Faith and Freezer Meals by (yours truly) Lacy Ngo, MS, RDN
This IS the ultimate meal prep book! Mindfulness in Faith and Freezer Meals shows you how to prep ALL your meals for a month in ONE DAY!!! I developed this book because, although I LOVE to cook, I couldn’t find the time to cook healthy meals everyday. Life. Gets. Soooo. Busy, and figuring out what to eat everyday is one more mentally draining decision you have to make.
That is why I began prepping and freezing a month of meals in one day. Over time I became extremely efficient at making all of these meals at once. I can now get all my breakfast, lunch and dinners for a whole month prepped and frozen in only 6 hours!!! This book teaches you the tricks and the steps to take in order to prep and freeze your meals efficiently too. When it’s actually time to eat breakfast and lunch, you simply throw one of these meals in the microwave for 2 minutes and IT. IS. DONE!!!! For dinner, I usually put the family-style meals in the crockpot while I am making my kids lunches in the morning. It’s so simple! With Mindfulness in Faith and Freezer Meals, you have one less thing to think about each day. Now you can enjoy healthy meals and focus on your family instead of trying to figure out what to cook!
Mindfulness in Faith and Freezer Meals includes the some of the most popular family recipes. From Pizza Bites and Southwest burrito dip, to Asian Chicken and rice; there is something for just about everyone.
Healthy Meal Planning Ultimate Bundle
With this Healthy Meal Planning Ultimate bundle, you are able to get a HUGE assortment of meal planning resources all at once for an amazing price! Instead of paying for each resource separately, you pay one price and get a whole collection which includes:
- 1072 whole food recipes
- 38 meal plans to choose from
- Nutrition information on every recipe
AND it integrates with the Real Plan app!
You can find out more about the Healthy Meal Planning Ulitmate Bundle here.
The Real Plan App
With the Real Plan app, you can customize your meals and grocery lists from your phone! Real Plans even includes easy Instacart integration so you can get your groceries delivered!
Best Meal Prep Products
My favorite is the Baggy Rack!
Meal Plan Checklist Printable (It’s Free!!!)
I developed this meal plan checklist because I wanted to make sure I was incorporating foods that helped improve my mood, immunity, and inflammation; reduced the risk or chronic, autoimmune and neurodegenerative diseases like Dementia, Alzheimer’s, Cancer, heart disease, and Rheumatoid arthritis; and helped with stomach problems like cramps, distention, and diarrhea. In other words, I wanted a COMPLETE list of foods that I should include in my weekly meals all in one place.
So I made a simple, easy Meal Plan Checklist! You can use the checklist to make sure you are getting these amazing nutrients into your daily life! And all subscribers can print and start using the Meal Plan Checklist now! It’s completely free! You can get this FREE Meal Plan Checklist here!
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