Print your own Weekly Meal Planner booklet for the Midori Traveler's Notebook

I've adaped my Filofax A5 meal planner to create a new Traveler's Notebook booklet.

The booklet allows you to plan and budget your meals on a weekly basis over 15 weeks. Each week begins with establishing a starting point for the week, looking at your budget and what food you have to be used up:

You can use this page to track your spending through the week, too.

The main part of the planner is this two-page spread:

Here you can plan out your week and decide what you'll be cooking for the week ahead. There's space for each of the main meals and special boxes on the right to capture any ingredients you'll need to buy.

On the final page, you can note any non-food shopping you need, look back at the week's menus and forward to some ideas for next week.  

You can download this insert here.

What you'll download is a PDF file, in 'pre-shrunk' format. This is ready to print straight away, without any need to use booklet format on your printer. Just print this straight to A4, with duplex set to flip on the short edge (I'd recommend you print just one or two pages first to make sure your printer deals with this correctly and make adjustments as necessary.)

Once you've printed out the pages, you can bind them into a booklet and cut to size using these instructions or these ones.

I'm aware that some of my readers like to roll their sleeves up and play with the source Word file, so here it is.

Budget pages for your Filofax for free download

Increasingly people are tracking and keeping close scrutiny over their spending, and your Filofax stands ready to help you with this. I have designed two different pages to support budgeting in the Filofax Personal.

First, there's a recording sheet:

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What you'll do on this sheet is track your day-to-day spending. Along the top of the page you can name up to 8 budget categories (using multiple sheets will allow you an unlimited number, but eight is a sensible and manageable number for most people) and you can note the monthly budget you've set for each category. Underneath you can track your spending day-by-day, by category.

Next comes the analysis sheet:

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This sheet allows you to record monthly totals and analyse your actual spending by category and variance to your budget over a four month period.

Both pages will print double-sided, two-to-a-page on A4 paper. You can download the pages here:

   Recording sheet - Word file or PDF file
   Analysis sheet - Word file or PDF file

If using the PDF versions remember to set your printer settings so as not to shrink the pages.

Each file should be printed double-sided with the duplex set to flip along the short edge. You can then cut out and punch individual pages as outlined in this post.