Here are my tips for getting started with meal planning:

1. Schedule some time in your calendar to do the planning so that it happens.

If tasks are in your calendar they’re more likely to happen, they become a priority. Make meal planning a priority and schedule the time to make it happen.

Scheduling also helps when a task hasn’t yet become second nature, you get a prompt to do it until you no longer have to think about it.

2. Do it when it makes sense for you.

There’s no point doing it on a Sunday evening if that’s not when your head is going to be in the game or you’ve got too much going on to prepare for the new week.

Do it in your lunch break, on a weeknight when your head is in the work mindset, break it down and do it over a couple of days or even do it during family mealtime, getting everyone involved. 

3. Just make a start!

Stop putting it off and just do it! The thought of it is worse than actually doing it and it never takes as long as you think it’s going to.