Enjoy this August meal plan with a printable calendar and easy, family-friendly recipes.
Can you believe it’s almost Back to School time? Less than 3 weeks and my kids will be back in school. Summer has flown by!
We’ve had some crazy weather in Nebraska. 70-degree days followed by 100+ degree days. Just crazy how the weather has changed from one day to the next. My kids have wanted to swim in all of it, so we’ve been spending alot of time poolside! We have free access to my aunt’s pool, which is very nice. It’ll make for some good memories of their childhood. Plan your dinners with me! Whether you use this one or one you make yourself, a menu plan will bring you more peace in the kitchen. Want a menu plan that’s even more simple than this one? AND includes a shopping list? Try this one: ‘Incredibly Easy 5-Ingredient Meal Plan and Cookbook’ available on Amazon!
Available Menu Plan Formats:
- The easy-to-print version as a .PDF.
- The pre-filled file in Excel.
- An empty file in Excel. Make your own menu plan!
Recipes in this August menu plan:
Quiche
Slow Cooker Kung Pao Chicken
Tex Mex Casserole
Garlic Shrimp Vegetable Stir Fry
Italian Baked Hoagies
Sheet Pan Sausage & Peppers
Pepperoni Roll
Big Mac Salad Bowl
Baked Buffalo Chicken
Honey Garlic Chicken
Stuffed Pepper Casserole
Teriyaki Chicken Rice Bowl
Oven Drumsticks
Chicken Alfredo Bake
Smoked Sausage & Potato Hash
Cheeseburgers
Slow Cooker Creamy Spaghetti
Ham & Cheese Crescent Bake
Sweet & Sour Chicken
Chicken Tacos
Crockpot Stuffed Peppers
Tuna Noodle Casserole
Marinated Chicken Breasts
Slow Cooker Barbeque Beef Sandwiches
Bacon Wrapped Chicken
French Bread Pizza
Slow Cooker Lasagna
Sloppy Joes
Slow Cooker Pork Chops
Bratwurst
Chicken Bruschetta Bake
Jayme is a wife to 1 and a mother to four boys. She tries to save money in the kitchen by building a smart stockpile and meal planning. While she likes to cook, she’s in the stage of life where simple is usually better – she never knows how crazy it’ll get at dinner time. You can find her on Instagram.
Back-to-school season can make dinner decisions feel more difficult than the cooking itself. A printable calendar is especially useful because it gives busy evenings a visible plan while leaving room to swap meals when schedules change. Pairing that structure with easy, family-friendly recipes can also make grocery shopping more focused and help reduce last-minute choices. It may help to mark the busiest school nights first, then reserve simpler meals or leftovers for those dates.
Building the August menu around a printable calendar makes the back-to-school transition feel more manageable. One helpful addition could be a short prep note beside each recipe: which ingredients can be chopped ahead, what freezes well, and what needs to be made fresh. That would make the plan easier to adapt when school schedules change unexpectedly. A simple conversion chart for common serving sizes could also help families adjust dinner portions without reworking the whole week.
A monthly menu becomes much more practical when it makes the busy back-to-school transition visible before the week begins. The printable calendar is especially useful because it can turn recipe ideas into a clear sequence of dinners, leftovers, and shopping needs. Planning also leaves room for flexibility: assigning a few simple meals to the busiest evenings can reduce decision fatigue without making the whole month feel rigid. This is a helpful reminder that preparation supports success by making everyday choices easier.
A printable August calendar is a practical way to reduce the daily decision-making that becomes especially busy before school resumes. Pairing it with approachable family recipes makes the plan easier to adapt when schedules shift or ingredients need substituting. One useful angle is to mark the few nights that need the fastest meals first, then leave room for leftovers and flexible pantry dinners.
A printable August calendar is a strong foundation for a family meal plan, especially with back-to-school routines approaching. It can become even easier to follow by adding a small prep note to each week: which ingredients can be washed, chopped, cooked, or frozen ahead of time. Grouping recipes by shared ingredients also helps turn the calendar into a more focused shopping list and leaves room for flexible nights when schedules change unexpectedly.