See what every dinner costs per plate before you shop, so the week never quietly overspends and month end stops being a surprise.
launches 1 august · £15 early access, £19 after launch · the first big shop guarantee
If it doesn't pay for itself on the first big shop, a full refund.
| MONSpaghetti bolognese ×5 | £1.12 /pl |
| TUEChicken traybake ×5 | £1.64 /pl |
| WEDVeg chilli, batch of 8 | £0.87 /pl |
| THUJackets + beans ×5 | £0.74 /pl |
| FRIFish finger wraps ×5 | £1.38 /pl |
| WEEK TOTAL | £28.45 |
| BUDGET | £35.00 |
| UNDER BY | £6.55 ✓ |
* £6.55 stays in the account this week
Built for families
Four weeks like the receipt above is roughly £26 that stays in the account instead of leaking out of your bank account, and that's even before it catches a single price rise. This planner is the tool designed to protect your month-end balance.
Every other cost-per-serving spreadsheet out there is built for restaurants and bakers pricing food for profit. This one is built for the UK households aware enough to fight back against shrinkflation.
The planner, in action
A quick three-part process: prices in, meals costed, week planned against the budget. Here's a breakdown.
Enter the ten things you always buy and what they cost at your shop. First dinner costed in minutes; add the rest as you go.
Assemble each family meal from those ingredients. Every one gets a cost per plate, automatically, and the planner remembers for next week.
Pick the week's dinners and watch the running total against your food budget while you're still at the kitchen table.
Why us?
Then you're most of the way there, and you already know the annoying part: paper can log this week, but it can't remember what mince cost last month, redo the arithmetic when Tuesday's chicken becomes Tuesday's chilli, or draw you the week against the budget. The sheet does all three in the time the kettle takes, and it never mis-adds at nine on a Sunday night. Ten minutes a week instead of an evening, and the month-end number takes care of itself, which is all the spreadsheet was ever for.
You genuinely could. It's a weekend of formula-wrangling, unit conversions, and chart fiddling, or it's £15 and done tonight. Your call on what the weekend's worth.
There are no built-in prices to match. Every number in it is one you enter from your own shop, so it's right for your till, in any currency.
No, and on purpose. No calories, no macros, no opinions about what you eat. It answers one question: what does this meal cost?
What you get
The Price BookYour shop's prices and pack sizes, entered once, the way the shelf sells them. This is the memory paper doesn't have.
The Plate EngineBuild any meal and it returns cost per plate, per batch, per week. Swap an ingredient, the number moves instantly.
The Budget BoardSet the weekly food budget and see the plan against it before you shop, not three weeks later on the statement.
The Shrinkflation TripwireBecause pack size sits next to price, when 500g quietly becomes 450g your cost per plate ticks up and the sheet flags it. Same price, smaller pack, caught the week it happens.
works in google sheets and excel · both versions included · instant download
Our Promise to you
Use it for the first big shop after you download it. If it hasn't paid for itself within 30 days, email for a refund and you'll get one, no questions, no forms. You keep the download either way.