Hi, I'm Rachael!

I'm a former teacher who loves planning but somehow seemed to fail at meal planning any time I tried.

It didn't make sense that I could plan out months of lessons in detail, yet I could barely string together dinner plans.

As a sustainable living blogger, gardener, and home cook, I was tired of wasting my time, money, and expensive produce by letting it rot before I could use it.

I started trying different meal planning tools and programs, but quickly realized they:

- Shocked my budget ($900 for 2 people?!)

- Required way too much prep time.

This is when I created my own simple meal planning system that took into consideration my real food eating habits, budget, and schedule.

Since then, dinner has been way easier to handle. We're dining out less, eating our veggies, and getting our budget in control.

I wanted to simplify meal planning the same way I would simplify a complex lesson for students: by breaking it into small, manageable parts that build on each other.

In this printable workbook, you'll simply follow along page-by-page. There's helpful content to read, reflective prompts to respond to, and lots of fill-in-the-blank frameworks to build your meal planning routine one piece at a time.

I'll even show you step-by-step how to meal plan to save time and money!