The NestKeepr Menu Plans and Grocery List System Explained

Home Menus and Matching Grocery Lists

_{Published January 2, 2025 by Nicole Dieckman}

_{This article may contain affiliate links. Please see our disclosure policy.}

Welcome to The NestKeepr Menu Plans and Grocery List System! If this is your first time here, let me explain a bit about what this is and what it’s not.

Imagine getting home from work to find a menu ready for you. It offers variety without overwhelming you, catering to different moods. The ingredients are already in your fridge because someone made a shopping list for you. It was quick and easy to pick up the items, or order them for delivery. The grocery list labels each item by menu meal, so you can skip anything you don’t like. The meals are easy to prepare, nutritious, tasty and family friendly.

As a mom for the past eighteen years, this sounds like it would have been a dream come true, many nights, when I was overstimulated or just plain exhausted, and didn’t want to answer the question of “what’s for dinner.” That’s why I created The Nestkeepr Menu Plans and Grocery List System.

Home Menu Plans and Grocery Lists

I’ve created menus, but instead of being at a restaurant, they are for your home.

 

Each menu includes a comfort meal type dinner, a rice bowl inspired dinner, and a dinner salad. This style of meal rotation is easy to stick to because it combines health and happiness. It also helps cultivate versatile palates in growing children.

The grocery lists are carefully planned and organized to make shopping easier. Each list groups items by typical grocery sections and labels them with the corresponding menu item. Whether you decide to skip a meal because of taste or shop for just one meal at a time, the list remains efficient. Plus, if you shop directly from the website using Amazon Fresh, you’ll find that each item links to its Amazon Fresh counterpart, making it simple to add everything to your cart, check out, and have your groceries delivered to your door.

The grocery lists provide space for extra items you need to add to your list as well. And the items are easy to cross off if they already are present in your pantry.

Why Three Meals instead of Five or Seven?

The plans are designed with three dinners at a time to prevent food waste and eating out guilt. Over the years, planning a week’s worth of meals led to wasted food and spoiled meat. Switching to shopping for three dinners at a time solved this. We could skip meals, eat out, or order in without worrying about spoilage. This approach saved hundreds of dollars, which is why I designed the plan this way. Plus, it’s tough to find meat and produce that lasts a full week. If you prefer shopping for six meals, just combine two menu plans.

What This Menu Plans System Is Not

This is not a diet plan or something you need to “follow.” A nutritionist with a degree in health services didn’t design this. Yada yada yada doesn’t recommend it, promising something that sounds grand and ideal but is actually impossible to stick to. Instead this is something to help busy parents meal plan more efficiently and to avoid dinner brain blocks. Designed by a mom, who has been doing it for eighteen years. Because let’s be honest, nobody wants to have to come up with a dinner plan and then figure out the grocery list, every single day, for the rest of our lives. This system, gives you a break from that exhaustion.

If you follow our menu plans consistently, you’ll enjoy dinner salads at least one out of every three meals. These salads are not only delicious but also packed with vitamins and essential nutrients. Rice bowl meals make up about a third of your meals as well, offering a rich source of nutrition. The remaining meals are comfort foods—though less nutrient-dense, they provide emotional satisfaction and contribute to mental well-being, keeping both you and your kids happy.

 

What It Is

This is, put simply, a menu and grocery list to make homemakers’ lives easier and more organized. It’s a menu plan to feed a family that you can print out and pop on your fridge, along with a matching grocery list, designed for the purpose of saving you time. So at night when you’re too tired to decide what’s for dinner, we’ve already got you covered. My Dad always says, “You have to have a plan!” But as parents sometimes we’re too busy to make that plan, that’s why I’ve created this system, so you can have a plan, without having the time for planning.

These meals are planned with reasonable amounts of ingredients so you don’t have to buy the entire grocery store just to fix dinner. These are meals with a minimal amount of steps so you don’t spend hours in the kitchen, tasty food choices with a variety of nutrition, and are palatable for the entire family. These are foods you want to eat, inspired by living in the melting pot of America.

How it Works

The NestKeepr Menu Plans and Grocery List System is labeled by numbers instead of weeks so you can bounce around and back and forth. You can have MP#1 this week, and MP#5 next week, or you can simply go in order. You may find just three or four you like to rotate through. And as the lists grow in numbers the more options you’ll have, but the purpose is for you to be able to scan a plan, print the printables, and head off to the grocery store after checking your pantry to see what you already have.

Get started today with Menu Plan and Grocery List #1!