How I Meal Plan Using Notion 🥗 | Notion meal planner, recipe database, & shopping list

5-minute meal planning? Yes please! Today I’m showing you how I use Notion to tackle all my meal planning and grocery shopping needs.
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[@CallMeQuietASMR]

I’ve been binge watching notion meal planner videos to find the right one and honestly yours is the ‘smartest’ out of all of them and one of the few that makes use of Notion’s newer features - excellent work!

[@itskatwaugh]

Ahh thank you! My inner enneagram 1 is living for this level of approval 🥹🫶

[@icclepippa]

You are a bit of a Notion God😍 my brain would never be able to create something like this - I am in awe. I am also buying this now x

[@itskatwaugh]

Hahaha thank you! I put up a bit of a fight with this one to get it to do what all I wanted, but I'm certainly glad it worked out. I'm happy you like it!

[@vsgmermaidbowl]

could you do a video on how we could create a planner like this?

[@MightyWeeks]

lol. that'll cost ya.

[@rogerdelbarco]

Wow, you seem really organized

[@Krenni98]

Hi Kat, can you do sometime a travel planner? Would be cool or a simply Gym planner. Great Video, I bought your "life dashboard planner" template on Notion. You thought for everything. I also can translate the data files in german, which is great. You do the best videos about Notion on YT. Keep working and lovely regards from Salzburg / Austria

[@itskatwaugh]

Yes! A travel planner is coming and I’ll be sharing all about it when I get back from honeymoon :)

[@Krenni98]

@@itskatwaugh oh congratulations!

[@novmommy07]

I love this and it's a great template no doubt. I would love to learn how to make this for myself. I'm not able to afford $27 for a template right now. But this definitely looks likes it well worth it. :)

[@itskatwaugh]

I totally understand! I'm planning a video on Notion formulas soon, which I would definitely recommend watching when it comes out! This template is a verrryyy formula heavy template to get it to do all of the automations, so that would be a great place to start learning!! Thank you for the kind words ☺

[@latebloomer35]

I love this!! Are we able to edit it to feature something that wasn't in it? Like a master pantry, fridge , freeze, spice collection. I'd like to know when I have something in stock or not and when they expire.

[@itskatwaugh]

I’m sure that’s something you could integrate into the Pantry section! Right now, there’s not a way to add a certain amount to a number property when clicking a button in Notion (that would be the most efficient option). You could add a checkbox for whether or not it was in stock and also a date property for the expiration! Then when you run the weekly reset you can add an automation to make sure anything you bought got marked as being in stock :)

[@RuthlessQne]

Really like what you have done with this. Seems as if the template is currently unavailable, so I have been trying to recreate this on my own. Are you able to confirm how you have the Pantry Items / Ingredients / Shopping List databases configured so that you are able to enter in the ingredient quantities in the template of the recipe and have it summed with the formula on the shopping list?

[@itskatwaugh]

Hey there, thank you! My template shop is just down temporarily while I migrate off Etsy to my own website. The template should be back by the end of the week! The short answer to your question: lots of formulas 🙃😅

[@itskatwaugh]

Hey there, this template is back online! You can grab it here: katwaugh.com/the-meal-planner

[@ekaterinamalysheva8127]

Hi, Kat! I love the template, are measurements in L, ML, CM, GR, KG etc available on it?

[@itskatwaugh]

Hey!! Great question. When you get the template everything is in cups, tsp, etc., but these are completely customizable! I know a few people who have changed all the measurements to ML, KG, etc. Hope that helps!

[@mcatherineblack]

Is this available as a stand alone template or only as part of the bundle? I don’t see it in your shop.

[@itskatwaugh]

Hi, yes it is! It was out of stock, but it's there now. Thanks for letting me know! So sorry about that!

[@annasynner5200]

holy shit this is genius

[@katf42]

Hello. This looks very user friendly, but I’m curious, can I add my own recipes to this data base or am I limited to what you already have in there? And, if I can, is there directions on how to do that? Thanks!

[@itskatwaugh]

Yes you can, and yes there is! 🤗

[@mayagoyzuetaacevedo4609]

Hello there! a quick question. If I buy the template, will I get a link to duplicate it?

[@itskatwaugh]

You sure will!!

[@Marie-sm6pk]

Hi, i've been trying to understand the formula and steps behind your template and the only thing I don't understand is how do you avoid having the same ingredient multiple times in your shopping list ? Your meal planner really is amazing I love your content !

[@itskatwaugh]

Thanks so much Marie! The ingredients in my recipes are related to the shopping list so there's only one copy :)

[@amermaidstudio]

I wish I knew how to do this kind of stuff, one on one, step by step

[@itskatwaugh]

Absolutely!! It's SO possible!

[@Biscuit960]

Wow this is an awesome system but I wish I could add the calories and macros for each of my recipes

[@itskatwaugh]

Thanks for this feedback! I'll keep this in mind for a future update.

[@PatronHealth]

Hi I am interested in your template however I would like to know if I am able to use it as a base and then amend the database so that I can add macros and calories to my meals. is this possible?

[@itskatwaugh]

Hi there! I think I just potentially answered you via email, but just in case I'll answer here too! Yes! You can add the calories and macros to the recipe cards. That way you can total them each day too :)

[@Almejandro1987]

Hello Kat, I did my best to try and purchase at etsy, without success, every time it failed and etsy is not helping me much. Any other way to get it?

[@itskatwaugh]

Ugh, I'm so sorry to hear that! I'm working on opening up a shop that's not on Etsy, but at the moment Etsy is the only option I have. I'm sorry about the inconvenience!

[@christinefothergill3590]

can we add our favorite recipes to the meal planner

[@itskatwaugh]

Yes you absolutely can!