Book excerpt: Save time, energy, and money with this weekly meal planner journal Our hectic schedules can get in the way of enjoying some of life's greatest pleasures--like eating delicious, home-cooked meals. Enter meal prepping; an easy, convenient, and money-saving way to plan out what you'll eat for a week or even longer. Meal Prep Meal Planner is a handy organizer that lets you keep track of your weekly menus, shopping lists, what you already have on hand, and what you need to prep. First, learn about batch prepping and other easy techniques that will save you time. Then, use the meal planner to plan the coming week's meal and prep. Once you find your meal prep groove, you'll find shopping, cooking, and making meals a snap, leaving you more time during the week to do the things you love. The Meal Prep Meal Planner includes: Best practices--Meal Prep 101 gives you the lowdown on simple ways to plan and prep meals efficiently. Week to week--Multiple weekly meal planners inside provide space for you to write in what you are having for breakfast, lunch/snack, and dinner every day of the week, what your prep will be for the week, what meals you've already got banked, and your shopping list. Box it up--Find out about the best food storage containers, simple hacks for labeling, and tips on reheating meals from the fridge and freezer. Master meal planning with the Meal Prep Meal Planner.