10 Home Cooks on How They Began Meal Planning (& Stuck with it) — Smart Start

Imagine you knew exactly what you'd be eating for every single meal every single day of the week. Now, will that fantasy into existence by making a habit of meal planning! It's the answer to life's most frequent questions — especially "What's for dinner?"

Here at Kitchn, we will be the first to admit that meal planning isn't a cake walk — but it's also not a completely unattainable ideal reserved for a certain echelon of hyper-organized home cooks. Anyone can meal plan. Yes, even you.

Read more: The Beginner's Guide to Meal Planning

The real mystery isn't how to meal plan, though. It's how to stick with it. We asked home cooks in various stages of their meal planning journeys how they started, and how they stick with it. Here are their best tips.

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