Did you know that Microsoft Office 365 isn’t just for businesses? This suite of programs makes it super easy to streamline essential household tasks, and now comes in a Personal version that is not only affordable, you can access it both at home and on the go. In short, you can take all of your organizational documents with you where ever you go!
One of the things I have been missing in my life is a proper meal planning template to use as I plan our meals each week. I wanted something that was easy to use, easy to access from on the go, and easy to reuse my favorite recipes.
OneNote was a great option for me to create my meal planning template!
The meal plan has 2 sections, a weekly calendar section and a recipe section. OneNote is an amazing tool because you can add links to your recipe section or add external links to open a recipe from the web. Within the calendar section is a grocery list page. You can open OneNote on your mobile phone and actually check off the items as you shop.
OneNote is a fantastic tool for anything you want to keep track of. You can even insert excel spreadsheets into a OneNote Notebook, “print” just about anything into a OneNote page and create an entire virtual noteboook that is organized and always at your fingertips.
OneNote on mobile devices
Your Office 365 Personal subscription allows you to use OneNote on one PC and one iPad. You also can use OneNote on any number of smartphones for free.
Check out my meal planning template on my iPad. You have full functionality with OneNote for iPad. You can create and edit your notebooks, adds pages, sections and more.
Check out my meal planning template on my iPhone. On the iPhone you can view notebooks that have been created on your PC or iPad.
Download the meal planning template for OneNote
Download link: Meal planning template
To add the template to OneNote, simply download the file to your computer, and double click on it. It will begin to import into OneNote.
This is a sponsored post but opinions and template are my own.
I don’t meal plan…sigh. I know I need to start, but I am a “throw it together last minute” kind of mom.
This is something I will definitely use! I’m going to work on this today.
I’ve used OneNote for about a year now. It is such a handy program to have and to stay organized. I once had a million sites bookmarked now recipes I make and like I add to it.
I totally need to plan our meals. I’ll check this out – thanks for sharing!
I hate meal planning- so I rarely take the time to do it but when I do our meals improve and I find it easier to stick to a budget.
Oh wow, this is so handy! I love that you can use it on any number of smartphones; that means I could share it with my husband, so he’d know what’s up for meals too. And love that you can link to recipes! I’m always hunting down the recipes for certain meals I put on the menu.
I really need to work on being better at meal planning. This is totally awesome! Definitely need to check it out!
Ohhh love it! I have wondered about OneNote!
I WANT to meal plan. This may help me do that!
Despite having Office 365, I haven’t really played around with it. I would have never thought to use it in this way. Thanks for sharing.
I love that you can do your shopping lists in it, too.
I have OneNote but have never used it. This makes me want to give it a try because more than anything, we need to plan out our meals. Things are way to haphazard around here and that causes our grocery bill to skyrocket. Thanks for the free template because it’s something I’m definitely going to use, and hopefully OFTEN!
Wow, so glad to have come across this! I could definitely use it. Thank you for sharing.
Yep, I downloaded! I need to meal plan better!
Wow OneNote has a ton of features! I could see myself wasting way too much time playing with that. Thanks for the template!
OVer the past couple of months, we have been making a real effort to put more planning into our meals. This is so much more organized than my pencil and paper mess! Thanks for sharing!
I have this version and I love all the diff template options!! I was surprised how many they really had when I was in there one day messing around. You can also google some that work.
Oh that is neat! This reminded me that I need to actually write out our menu for this week before I forget what I was planning! LOL
That’s so much easier than I thought it would be. Thanks for the run through!
I am anti-meal plan (no reason other than I want what I want when I want it, and what I want is a frequently changing thing.. from minute to minute…lol) This would come in really handy for other organizing though. I’ve been thinking about either buying it or getting it through Godaddy
Wow, that is so handy!!! I love preparing meals a head of time. If I don’t we always order take out and I really hate that!
I have Office365 and OneNote but I haven’t adequately played with either of them. I do LOVE OneNote for note-taking!
I need to give this a try, I use OneNote for everything else including recipes. I just can’t seem to make menu planning stick, maybe this will help since OneNote is already integrated in my daily routines!
I downloaded the file just fine, but when I tried to open it, the error message said it’s from an older version of OneNote and cannot be opened. What version is it from? I use 2007.
Ok, I’m an idiot. 🙂 The entire post is about what version.. duh. Is there any way you could convert it to 2007 for me? thanks!
That’s odd, it doesn’t give me the option to save it as a different version.
Hi Kim
All you need to do is open the notebook properties and convert to 2007 to convert it back to an older version, even I am having a version problem 🙁
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/15558/share-onenote-2010-notebooks-with-onenote-2007/
Thanks
Wow! Thank you! You’re awesome to have included such great instructions. I just downloaded. I’m not new to Onenote, but I’m not too saavy with it either. This looks like it will be easy for me.
This looks so awesome. I have one note, however when I downloaded the template it won’t open with the program?
Do you maybe have an older version?
No I just downloaded when I saw your template. However I am using a Mac not a pc.
hmmm I suppose that could be the problem. I did mine on PC.
Has anyone had a problem with getting the file to unpack? When I open it in one note, it has a pop up that says “unpacking…” and it gets pretty far but then just seems to stall after a while & never opens.
Just checking to see if anyone else may have had this issue..
Hi,
This seems very very helpful, but I just can’t access it on my Mac. I was wondering if you knew how to..
Hi there! I am so excited to use this resource, but cannot open it in MAC. Please advise. Thank you.