Menu Planner???  

I actually do make a weekly menu, its a fairly simple process.The first thing you want to do is figure out what you want to eat for the entire week, that being the only difficulty to it, but once you do that {I'll give you an example at the end}. Only buy the groceries you need to for that specific menu and even get your husband or wife involved and creat one together it actually allows for extra time together to just and talk and if you have children, let them pick something out for the family even.I hope this helps you out some and here is how I make my weekly menu planner.

Monday: breakfast bagel with cream cheese, fruit and coffee.

lunch: ham and cheese sandwich, potatoe salad, iced tea

dinner:roast beef,mashed potatoes,broccoli with cheese sauce and cold drink.

now as I said this is just an example, you dont have to make a menu for all three meals if you dont have time to eat them and they certainly dont have to consist of the food listed, that was from my actual menu from last week but that is how I make a basic menu, it also helps make a shopping list easier to make and shopping a little quicker.I hope this helps you, take care and the best of luck to you.

Something my mother used to do with her TV schedules that could easily be applied to making a weekly menu was...

She purchased a small dry erase board. Then with a perminant marker she make a box for each day of the week on the board, with a small box in the corner for the date. Then with dry erase markers she would write on the board what she wanted to watch (or in your case, what the meals will be) and the date in the small box. At the end of the week she would just clean it off with a tissue and write up the new schedule. You could write "breakfast:", "lunch:", "dinner:", and "dessert:" on it with perminant pen as well.

I purchased a drawing pad with large blank pages of thick paper. The kind you can use for watercolor paints, but not as thick as a real watercolor notebook page. I fold it into fours and on each quarter I write a recipe. I do the same for both sides of the page until it's filled up. You can keep track of your recipes this way. Then you make up a weekly shopping list with all of the supplies you'll need for that week's menu.

I don't do a weekly menu, but someday I think I might. It would certainly be helpful for pre-purchasing the food I'll need for each recipe in advance.

i had a muenu planner at my parents place but now i m married and here i dont have anything. my in laws dont like that way.
i think its a very nice way to eat a heakthy, balanced food distributed in the week, and you know before hand only what you have to cook for the next meal, so no tension and hurry.its a very nice way.
my mother use to sit with the family on every week end and decide what has to be eaten on which day by everybody's choice and then she use to write it down on the planner.she use to plan all the meals, breakfast, lunch, dinner. and she always use to check that it should be healthy. it was a very nice way to have your cal. count check.