100 Days of Real Food Meal Planning: A Guide to Eating Whole Foods from Lisa Leake

VRae : I love the idea of this planner and the ease of use. However, It really only helps in planning dinner.
There isn't much space for breakfast, lunch and snacks. I don't know about you but we make and eat 3 meals a day plus a snack or two so we also need to plan those meals. I got too frustrated with this layout so I used the top dinner ideas portion as breakfast and the bottom as lunch ideas with the snacks on the side. I also do not understand the jot down shopping list when you clearly have a full grocery shopping layout on the page beside it.

Lisa is great and I love her products but this one is a miss for me. There's no way to add more pages (like a refill pack) to these so once you ripped out all 52 weeks you're left with a mostly empty "book" of some recipes that you cannot add more planning pages too. Of course there aren't any refill pages but that would have been nice.

I won't be repurchasing this again but it may be great if you are a dinner only planner.

United States on Jan 01, 2023

Caro: Such an excellent concept! Great recipes. Thé menu planners are well thought out. Thé fridge magnets really practial

France on Jul 17, 2022

wendy: Thinking I may have ordered the wrong book here. One third of it is just blank weekly templates, not many recipes and a whole load of how to be organised.

United Kingdom on Aug 10, 2021

Anna: Like Lisa’s other books this has been a fantastic purchase. Excellent book design, very practical to use. Great bonus recipes. It makes meal planning much easier.

Australia on Apr 02, 2021

bahle: I enjoy the organizer. I was writing my menu on a piece of notebook paper that would get lost throughout the week so it’s nice having the menu in a guaranteed spot. I also like having my shopping list right next to the menu-very convenient. My daughters LOVE the school checklist and are more adventurous with their food choices because of it. I thinks it’s easier for them to have the choices where they can see them rather than trying to come up with ideas on their own.

I did take one star off for the laminated menu. It was a great idea but it is really hard to erase.

Also, for anyone not familiar with 100 Days of Real Food, I find that her recipes are a hit or miss. So, as with her cookbooks, I found some of the recipes were good and some I won’t be making a second time. I didn’t take off any stars for that since it is more of my personal taste.

United States on Jan 27, 2021

Mike nowakMike nowak: Loving this meal planner so far! We are on week 1 and it has definitely helped get us organized in the kitchen already. Between gymnastics, taekwondo, night school and 2 parents working, we need all the help we can get! We've decided to get the kids involved more consistantly in the kitchen, so they will each be helping with dinner once/week. I think having everything written out ahead of time will really help with that. The only thing i would change is possibly more space between each line for grocery items (i have bubbly handwriting). Also there is glue on the reusable weekly meal template (from manufacturing) so I am unable to use it. We havent tried any of the included recipes yet but we intend to bc they sound delicious! All together Im happy with this purchase and would definitely recommend it.

United States on Jan 06, 2021

Amazon Customer: Just received this today , have already recommended to my sisters. This book is so well laid out and planned! After 20 years of planning on the fly , this seems like it’ll do the trick to get me organized. Only negative is I wish it came with a dry erase marker so I didn’t have to run out to buy one .

Canada on Jan 06, 2021

hrc2002: I made a few resolutions for 2021, and one of them is to become more organized. Every so often, I manage to scrape together a meal plan for the week and it makes everything flow so much easier!
But, I only manage to do this “every once in a while”...as in “every once in a blue moon.”

I think this planner is a game changer. The author has laid everything out in a really simple, logical manner. She’s not judgy and I really feel like her honest intention is to help people organize simple, healthy meals for their families. I have her cookbooks and they have been my go-tos when I need a recipe that doesn’t have a ton of ingredients and that is actually really good! (Until now, I have thrown those recipes together on a whim...stressed out bc it wasn’t in my plan!)

I’m in the middle of my first week and can say that I felt amazing after I made my plan, wrote it down, made my shopping list, ordered my groceries....I hung the weekly menu on my fridge and my family has been checking it out....They haven’t had to ask me, “What’s for dinner?” I haven’t had to figure it out at the last minute. We haven’t ordered out because we know...

United States on Jan 05, 2021

Erin Mitchell: Do not even hesitate in getting this Meal Planner! It is set up to perfectly organize and encourage your meal planning.

You can write your dinner recipe ideas through the week and then sit down and easily start planning your week and the grocery list is right there for you as well. It couldn’t be organized better.

I have been following Lisa for years now and she has the best cookbooks and resources. Every single book is constantly used for family favorites.

I am a meal planner and trust me, this book was made for me and the new recipes look just as good as all of her tried and true ones. I know this book would be perfect for someone just starting to meal plan as well.

Start the new year meal planning and having healthy food ready for your family each day. You can also pull them into adding their meal ideas. I absolutely love everything about this book!

United States on Jan 01, 2021