Food probably takes up more of your mental load than it should.

The average woman spends 11 to 14 hours a week on food planning, shopping and prep. That’s before you count the mental overhead of deciding what to make, checking what’s in the fridge, accounting for everyone’s preferences, and remembering to defrost something. It adds up to a significant chunk of your week, and most of it happens invisibly, in the background, whether you notice it or not.

And it’s one of the biggest places you can claw back real time, without waiting for anyone else to change.

So if you’re tired of answering “what’s for dinner” with existential dread, if food planning feels like a never-ending mental drain, if you wish you could just eat well without it taking over your head — this one’s for you.

This unit isn’t about cooking from scratch every day, eating perfectly, or becoming someone who loves meal prep. It’s about reducing decision fatigue, making food faster and easier, and reclaiming the mental space that’s currently being eaten up by the question of what to have for dinner on a Wednesday.

Who this is for

Anyone who holds most of the food work in their household and wants it to feel lighter. Families with different dietary needs, sensory preferences, or picky eaters. People who’ve tried meal planning before and given up because the system was too rigid, too complicated, or just too much effort to maintain. Anyone who wants a plan that works in real life, not just on a Sunday morning when you’ve got two hours and a clear head.

What you’ll cover

Three key areas: planning, shopping, and prepping. You’ll work out how to reduce decision fatigue before the week even starts, build a meal library of your actual favourites, set up a shopping process that stops things falling through the cracks, and work out which kind of meal prep actually fits the life you have right now. You don’t need a full system. You just need the right amount of one.

What’s included

• A full video training (around 40 minutes, packed with practical process not theory)
• A Notion meal planning template with a meal library, weekly planner, and shopping sections
• A separate walkthrough video showing you exactly how to use the Notion template
• Printable weekly menu planners in three formats: breakfast, lunch and dinner; lunch and dinner only; or dinner only
• A meal builders framework for households with different tastes or dietary needs

Ready to make food feel less like a second job?

You’ve probably already got a rough system of sorts. This gives it a proper structure, takes the daily decision-making off your plate (so to speak), and means you can stop reinventing the dinner wheel every single week.

Add it to your Steady Hub bundle and save, or pick it up on its own and get started today.