Weekly Eating Roadmap Printable Grocery List

I never used to be a grocery list person. You know how people tell you not to go to the store hungry? That was when I went. I decided my stomach was as reliable a grocery list as any, and I always came home with a lot of food … albeit mostly snack items that left me food-less within three days. Which was fine with me; I love going to the grocery store.

Then my boyfriend and I moved to Colorado, where we share a home. All of a sudden, I wasn’t cooking for one. I was cooking for me and my picky Peruvian {read: chicken-loving} eater. For the first year that we lived in Boulder, we took advantage of all the yummy restaurants much more than we should have because we couldn’t compromise on what to eat at home. We had happy hour plates down to a science. But we also had mint.com … which consistently alerted us to our liberal spending at restaurants.

Eventually, we sat down and made a compromise: I gave up being vegan {yes, unfortunately}, and he agreed to eat organic, whole foods like brown rice and beans. We also started sharing one plate at restaurants … let’s face it, most restaurants in the US give you more than enough for two people!

Every year, we make a goal list. One of the items on my goal list this year was “cook more”, and I think I’ve done a decent job of it. On Sundays, I scour Pinterest and my recipe books for new recipes and old favorites {check out my Dinnertime Faves and Recipes I Am Going to Try boards}. I then plan out our meals for the week.

I actually get excited to cook when I’m jotting down our meal plan. I never gave much credibility to planning out meals — especially since it seems to take some of the spontaneity out of eating — but no plan is ever set in stone. Believe it or not, having everything planned out saves us a significant amount of money every month. Why? Because we used to eat out because “there’s nothing to eat”. Now there’s always something good and homemade to eat!

So, I present to you this printable eating roadmap — a comprehensive grocery list that will save you money, and potentially make you feel healthier, week by week. The image above is an actual roadmap of dishes I will be cooking up this week.

You can download the printable grocery list and roadmap here for your own planning pleasure! The grocery list/roadmap is a grayscale, 8.5″x11″ .pdf document that I have compressed into a .zip file {for faster downloading}. If you are having trouble with the .zip file, email me at [email protected], and I will send you the .pdf file. Enjoy printing this grocery list/roadmap off as many times as you need to! Just please do not redistribute without attributing the printable to The Postman’s Knock and this blog post.

Happy planning from The Postman’s Knock!