Planning meals can feel overwhelming, especially when time and budget are tight. To make it easier, a group of Year 3 Occupational Therapy tauira have created a collection of practical resources designed to help you eat well without stress. 

You’ll find a variety of low-cost recipes, an example meal plan, and a customisable template to guide your weekly planning. These tools are perfect for anyone looking to save money, reduce decision fatigue, and maintain a balanced diet. Explore the ideas, mix and match recipes, and start building a plan that works for you.

Recipe ideas

Choose from the recipe ideas for breakfast, lunch, dinner and healthy snacks.

Weekly plans

Once you have chosen some recipes that appeal to you, create a weekly plan incorporating the new ideas. There is an example plan completed below to give you inspiration and an empty template as well to start your own weekly planner.

Daily meal plan

You can break the meal plan down into daily plans to create a shopping list. 

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