Meal planning is one area of my journal that keeps evolving. In 2024 I created a set of pages for each month so I’d have January – Cooking, January – Media, January – Spending, etc and it was something I didn’t keep up with over time.

In 2025, I grouped those pages together so all the spending pages were in one run, same with Media, Cooking, etc.

The problem was that I didn’t really focus on new recipes in 2025. So I have 12 pages which are mostly empty. Oops.

Oh look! In October I made one dish… except that I didn’t eat out for every other meal. So in 2026, I decided to shift from “these are new recipes I’m trying” to more of a general meal planning space. Here’s what I’m planning to make, even if it’s the same thing I eat all the time.

To get some ideas flowing, I decided to make a page of Recipe Bingo so I can look for ideas that make me excited, instead of staring at a blank page.

Here’s the ones I chose, ignore that I need to add a header.