Planning your weekly meals can be an effective way to ensure that you are keeping yourself and your family on track with healthy nutrition, as well as saving you on money and time. Taking the guesswork out of ‘What’s for lunch/dinner’ each day will free your mind space and prevent you from ordering expensive and mediocre take-out for the third time that week. Not only is it wasteful and stressful, eating this way has you compromising your health and vitality.