Meal planning stickers take the daily what is for dinner panic off the table. Block out your week, label each night, and you walk into the kitchen already knowing the plan.
The magic is that it is quick and a little bit fun, so planning dinners feels less like a chore and more like five minutes with your favourite stickers.
Here are five easy ways to sort the week's dinners with stickers. Our designs are removable vinyl as standard, so when Tuesday's plan becomes Thursday's, you just peel and move.
In this article
- 1. Block out the whole week of dinners
- 2. Give each night a theme
- 3. Turn your plan into a shopping list
- 4. Plan a prep or batch-cook day
- 5. Mark your takeaway and leftovers nights
- FAQ
1. Block out the whole week of dinners
Start with the big picture. Pop a dinner sticker on each night of your week and fill in what you are cooking. Seeing all seven nights at once stops the same three meals on repeat and makes gaps easy to spot.
Because the stickers lift and move, a swap is painless. Plans change, and dinner can change right along with them.
A neat dinner header for each night, in your choice of size, colour and font. Removable vinyl as standard.
2. Give each night a theme
Themed nights make the planning almost automatic. Think pasta Monday, taco Tuesday, roast Sunday. Once the theme is set, you only have to decide the details, which is far less effort than a blank week.
Use a different colour for each theme and your week reads like a little rainbow of dinners.
3. Turn your plan into a shopping list
Once the week is planned, your shopping list almost writes itself. Add a grocery sticker to your list day, then jot the ingredients you are missing. No more wandering the aisles wondering what you forgot.
A sweet little nudge to mark your shopping day and keep the list in one place.
4. Plan a prep or day
If your week is busy, a single prep day saves you all week. Mark a batch-cook or meal prep day, then note what you are making ahead, whether that is chopping veg, browning mince or cooking a big pot of something freezable.
Future you, staring into the fridge at 6pm on a Wednesday, will be very grateful.
Flag your prep day so the week's cooking is half done before it starts.
5. Mark your takeaway and leftovers nights
A good meal plan is realistic, not perfect. Build in a leftovers night and a takeaway night on purpose, and mark them just like any other meal. Planning the easy nights means you are far less likely to give up on the plan halfway through the week.
If you want a specific sticker that is not in our range yet, you can always design your own.
Frequently asked questions
What are meal planning stickers?
They are small planner stickers that help you organise food, like dinner headers, shopping reminders and meal prep markers. You add them to your planner to map out the week's meals at a glance.
Are the meal planning stickers removable?
Yes. Removable vinyl is our standard, so you can move a dinner to another night without tearing the page. A permanent paper option is available on our write-on designs.
Can I write on them?
On our write-on designs, yes. Use an ultra fine point Sharpie on vinyl, or choose permanent paper if you would rather use any pen.
How do meal planning stickers save time?
Planning once means no nightly decisions, a faster shop and less food waste. Seeing the whole week also helps you spread meals out and use what you already have.
Sort the week's dinners in five minutes
An organised life is a happy life, dinner included. Browse the meal planning range and build your perfect setup. 🍽
Shop meal planning stickers →Buy 5, get 1 free, applied automatically at the checkout. Happy planning, Kylie.