PLATORA: Free Weekly Meal Plan Template for Google Sheets

Platora answers the daily "what's for dinner" once a week instead of seven times. The grid covers Monday to Sunday with a column for each meal of the day, the dates recalculate from a single cell, and a dropdown serves your own list of go-to dishes when inspiration runs dry. It plans what you cook — there are no calorie or nutrient counts anywhere in the sheet.

Inside the weekly meal plan template

The Weekly Plan tab starts with a Week of cell. Set it to your Monday and every row's date follows automatically; the current day's row gets a lime highlight so the sheet always shows where in the week you stand. Each day has five writing columns: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snacks and Notes. Dinner is the column with help built in: a dropdown fed by the Meal Ideas tab, set as a suggestion rather than a rule, so you can pick from your list or type something new without the sheet complaining.

Meal Ideas holds twelve starter dishes with room for notes; replace them with your household's actual rotation and the dropdown becomes genuinely yours.

How to use this meal plan in Google Sheets

Import the XLSX into Google Sheets (the opening guide shows each step) and point Week of at the coming Monday. Fill the week in one sitting: dinners first from the dropdown, then the rest. The Notes column absorbs the practical bits, like what needs defrosting and which night is leftovers. When the week ends, change the date and the same grid serves the next one. The sample file ships with a filled-in week of plain dinners (pasta night, taco bowls, a vegetable stir fry) to show the layout.

A monthly meal plan on its own tab

The Monthly Plan tab zooms out: five week rows by seven days, meant for dinners only. A Month starts cell anchors the grid and each week row shows its calculated Monday date. It's the right altitude for the big strokes, marking the nights you'll be out and spacing the repeat meals, while the weekly tab stays the working view where the full days get written.

The free meal plan template in 12 languages

Platora comes in twelve languages, with day names, tab names and the sample dishes translated in each download. The natural next step is the shopping: the grocery list template turns a planned week into an aisle-sorted list with estimated costs, and the meal planning templates category collects the whole kitchen set.