A6 meal planner inserts for weekly menus, groceries and recipes

This A6 meal planner adds 32 undated pages to your A6 ring binder, each one a true 105 by 148 mm page (about 4.1 by 5.8 inches). Plan the week's menus, write your shopping, save recipes, keep stock of the pantry, fridge and freezer, and record the dishes your family loves. The download includes a file of single A6 pages with crop marks, plus print-and-cut sheets with four pages on each A4 sheet or two on each US Letter sheet. Instant download, nothing shipped.

Fewer last minute takeout nights, less food in the bin and a lot less dinner stress.

How the A6 meal planner makes dinners easier

Map out the whole week on a single small page, with three meals a day for all 7 days, or choose the plan and shop layout, where a week of dinners sits beside 15 lines for groceries. Glance at your pantry, fridge and freezer lists before heading out, and turn whatever needs using up into a meal with the cook from the pantry page.

Save the dishes that worked on the recipe pages and in the dinner ratings log, and your list of go-to meals grows a little every week. Because nothing is dated, you can print a new weekly plan and grocery list for any week of any year.

Who this meal planner is for

• Owners of an A6 6-ring binder who want a complete kitchen section for meals, shopping and recipes
• Busy families worn out by deciding on dinner every single evening
• Anyone hoping to waste less food and keep an eye on the grocery budget
• Planner fans already using general A6 inserts who want meal pages to sit beside them
• Anyone who likes a small list that slips into a handbag and goes to the store

Size, design and printing

• Elegant and minimal: white pages with soft blush pink details that go easy on ink
• Roomy margins, so a home printer will not trim anything
• True A6, 105 by 148 mm (about 4.1 by 5.8 inches), portrait, with equally wide margins left and right so either edge can be punched
• No dates, so plan any week of any year
• Print-and-cut versions: A4 sheets carrying four A6 pages, separated with just two straight cuts, and landscape US Letter sheets carrying two, each marked with cutting guides and a 50 mm ruler to check the scale
• One more file holds each page singly with crop marks, handy for home printing on any paper or for taking to a print shop
• Keep it in a binder or on a clipboard, or have a print shop spiral bind it

Inside the A6 meal planner: 32 pages

1. 1Front cover with lines for the owner, whose kitchen it is and the start date
2. 2Welcome: 6 meal codes (quick; batch or freeze; meatless; leftovers; a new recipe; eating out), the list of sections, tips for using the pages, notes and your reason for planning meals
3. 3Our table: a 5 row table showing who eats with you, what each person loves and dislikes, then allergies and foods to avoid, regular dishes, shopping and planning days, the weekly food budget, favorite stores, busy nights and a goal for this season
4. 4Dinner ideas: 30 suggestions to tick, grouped into 6 kinds (quick, sheet pan, soups and stews, meatless, pasta and grains, weekend), plus lines for your own ideas
5. 5Breakfast, lunch and snacks: 12 suggestions ready to tick and spare lines for more, plus ideas for packed lunches and eating on the move
6. 6Theme nights: 7 days, each with a line for its theme and a line for ideas, plus 13 themes to borrow
7. 7Go-to meals: 13 rows for the meal, who loves it, how long it takes and its code, plus easy wins for tired evenings
8. 8Dinner calendar: an undated 6 week grid with one dinner for each day, plus big shopping days, birthdays and nights out
9. 9Weekly meal plan: breakfast, lunch and dinner for each of 7 days, snacks and what to prep ahead
10. 10Dinners this week: 7 dinners, each with a circle for its code and a prep line, plus what to thaw or soak and what to buy
11. 11Plan and shop: 7 dinners beside a 15 line grocery list, foods to use up first and an estimated total
12. 12Prep day checklist: things to cook in advance, produce to wash and chop, meals to portion and pack, sauces and extras, a table for containers and labels, how long prep took and what you listened to
13. 13Leftovers: 11 rows for the leftover, date made, use by date, an idea for it and a done box, plus ways to give leftovers a makeover
14. 14Week in the kitchen review: meals that worked, ones to skip, food that was wasted and why, money spent on food, meals out, how planning felt on a 1 to 5 scale and what you will do next week
15. 15Grocery list by aisle: 38 lines to check, sorted into fresh produce, eggs and dairy, fish and meat, bread and bakery, pantry goods, the freezer aisle, household items and anything else
16. 16Shopping list with prices: 17 rows to write each item, how many and its cost, with your budget, the total and the amount saved
17. 17Staples list: 24 everyday basics printed and ready to tick, grouped under fridge, pantry, produce and bakery and more, with blank lines and a household section
18. 18Grocery budget: budgets for the month and week, a 15 row table of date, store, planned and spent, the total spent and what is left
19. 19Recipe index: 16 rows for the recipe, type, page and a rating of 5 circles, plus recipes you want to track down
20. 20Recipe page: servings, prep and cook times, 11 lines for ingredients, 11 numbered steps, notes and swaps and a rating
21. 21Quick recipes: two short recipes sharing a page, each with servings, time, 6 ingredient lines and 6 lines for the method
22. 22Recipes to try: 4 entries with the recipe, where it came from, the date tried, make again yes or no and notes
23. 23Kitchen conversions: volume in cups, spoons and ml, weight in ounces, pounds and grams, and oven temperatures in Fahrenheit and Celsius
24. 24Pantry inventory: 18 rows for item, have, need and best by date, plus foods to use first
25. 25Fridge and freezer: the freezer side has 9 rows to note each item, when it went in and how much, and the fridge side has 6 rows for each item, the day it was opened and its use by date
26. 26Spice and baking shelf: 20 herbs, spices and baking basics printed to tick, plus oils, vinegars and sauces
27. 27Cook from the pantry: 12 rows pairing what I have with what I could make, plus a menu for a pantry night
28. 28Family favorites: 4 blocks, each with a name, favorite meals and treats and foods they say no thanks to
29. 29Dinner ratings: 16 rows to log when you ate it, the dish, a score out of 5 circles and whether to cook it again, plus the season's three best
30. 30Special meal planner for holidays and guests: the occasion, who is coming, dietary needs, a menu of 6 courses, the shopping, and a countdown covering the day before and the big day itself
31. 31Kitchen notes with 24 lines
32. 32Back cover with start and finish dates, new family favorites and kitchen lessons worth keeping

Files in your download

• A6-Meal-Planner-A6.pdf, with 32 single A6 pages and crop marks
• A6-Meal-Planner-Print-and-Cut-A4.pdf, with 8 A4 sheets of 4 pages each
• A6-Meal-Planner-Print-and-Cut-Letter.pdf, with 16 US Letter sheets of 2 pages each
• Read Me First, a PDF guide to printing and cutting with a page finder

How to download and print

• Check out with PayPal, a debit or credit card, Apple Pay or Google Pay. Your download page opens as soon as the payment goes through.
• We email the same private download links to you, so you can download your files again later.
• Open the PDF in a free reader such as Adobe Acrobat Reader and print at 100% or Actual size.
• Print only the pages you need, as often as you like, for your own personal use.

Good to know

• You receive themed PDF pages to print and trim, without clickable links. This set stands apart from our general A6 Planner Inserts and A6 Daily Inserts and focuses only on meals, groceries, recipes and the pantry, so it pairs nicely with either.
• This is a digital product, so nothing physical is shipped.
• Printed colors can look a little different from your screen.
• For use in your own home only. Please keep the files to yourself and do not resell them.
• Digital files cannot be returned. If something will not open or print properly, email us and we will help right away.
• These pages are for planning and are not nutrition or medical advice. Always read food labels for allergens.
• Hole spacing is not the same on every A6 binder, so line up an insert you already own before you punch.

How this was made

Designed and written by PetiteDiary. AI tools helped draft parts of the text, and some background scenes in the preview images were created with AI. Every page was designed, reviewed and checked before release.

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