I´ve been working on a free meal prep planner on google sheets for a while and now reached alpha stage where everything is pretty much working. Testing needs to be done to check that there are no bugs and meal planning is easy enough.
- The meal planner calculates estimated calories and macros according to the values you enter.
- Enter how many days worth of meal prepping you want to do. In the example I entered 7 days of meal prep with 2 training days.
- Protein target is set 1g/lbs, Fat min. 0.3g/lbs and Carbs 1..2g/lbs. So pretty much according to the standard recommendations. These can be manually adjusted to your need.
- In the example breakfast is skipped but you can insert numbers to Amount (grams/pcs) column if you want to have breakfast.
- Meals are pretty much standard what you see in typical meal plans. So nothing new here yet.
- Lunch is pulled pork tenderloin which can be prepared for the whole week at once. Recipe example videos are in the recipe sheet.
- Dinner is Salsa chicken which can be prepared for the whole week at once. Recipe example videos are in the recipe sheet.
- Manually adjust numbers in Amount (grams/pcs) column to hit target macros
- To enter foods you can manually edit the planning sheet or copy the correct food information from A to F cells from foods sheet to the planning sheet
- Grocery list counts how much you need for your meal prep. Packing size is different for all. So for example for Cottage cheese packing size might be 200g, 250g or 400g. You´ll have to enter the package size according to what is available at your local stores.
- Try to hit your calorie target by +/- 50calories and macro targets by +/10gram accuracy
Follow this link and go to "File" and click "Make a copy". Save to your own drive to enable editing.
Cutting & Lean bulk meal prep planner (alpha version)
Play around with the numbers and see for yourself.
If you have any improvement ideas let me know in the comments below!
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