Meal Planning Personality®
Wondering how to get started with meal planning? Take the quiz below to uncover your meal planning personality® first.
Look at the characteristics of each Meal Planning Personality® first then select the statements about cooking and how you think about meal planning or your weekly menu that best describe you! You may find you’re a mixture, but one meal planning personality® should be dominant.
Do I…
- hate planning my meals ahead?
- prefer to be spontaneous when it comes to dinner – who wants to be locked in to a set meal plan?!?!
- not like planning my meals ahead because what if I won’t feel like eating that?
- not really know what’s in the fridge?
- shop when I have to (usually in the afternoon)?
- tend to eat out/ get takeaways as it is quicker (no thinking required)!
- not really know what my food budget is…?
- not know what is in the pantry?
- not really have a ‘shopping list’?
Do I…
- have a detailed meal plan and know exactly what I am eating a week to a month in advance?
- shop at set intervals?
- know my food budget and how much I spend on each food category?
- know what is in the pantry and do stock rotation?
- have a shopping list, it works and I buy what’s on it?
- know what’s in fridge?
Do I…
- kind of know what I am eating a week in advance? (you have a rough meal plan mapped out)
- keep changing my mind re my meal plan and dinners, even though I have kind of planned my dinners?
- tend to throw a lot of food out because I don’t get around to using it?
- shop on a regular basis and generally like shopping (though it can be a love hate relationship)?
- have a good (to rough) idea of my food budget/ expenditure?
- know what is in the pantry?
- have a shopping list and it kind of works (though i impulse buy)?
- know what’s in fridge?
Do I…
- know the shopping catalogue/ what’s on special really well?
- know exactly what I am eating at least a week in advance because I have mapped out my meal plan?
- shop at set intervals?
- buy and cook what’s in season?
- tend to toss out food because I forget about it?
- know exactly how much I am spending AND saving?
- know what is in the pantry do stock rotation?
- have a shopping list and it works?
- know what’s in the fridge?
