What is Sian's Plan?
Sian’s Plan is an online meal planner that is globally recognised as the most innovative digital solution for home cooks. Sian’s plan is about so much more than just food, it's a lifestyle solution to an everyday problem.
Who is Sian's Plan for?
Are you a busy mum who struggles to find the time to cook healthy meals from scratch every day?
Are you trying to reduce the cost of shopping?
Are you throwing away too much food or are you a Mum that craves more time out of the kitchen?
Well Sian's Plan is the answer.
What is Sian' s Plan?
Sian's Plan is a simple colour coded system that organises the family meals for the week, according to your cooking abilities, your family needs, your budget and your time restraints and then automatically creates a shopping list for you. Once you’ve organised your meals for the week you can either shop online here at Siansplan.com via our partners at mySupermarket.co.uk (UK only at the moment) or pop to the supermarket.
How does Sian's Plan work?
The secret to a stress free healthy family is simple; reverse the way you cook.
Sian’s Plan is a colour coded system that encourages you to think about when and what to cook before you shop. By using Sian’s plan it’s easier to control your shopping, optimise your family's health, reduce your food waste, save money and eliminate stress.
What do the colours mean?
There are 5 colours; red, green, blue, white and amber. Each colour represents the way you cook on any given day.
So on a red day you cook one meal from scratch, just like you normally would.
On a blue day you cook more than one meal or cook double the amount. The idea here is to prepare an extra meal so you have a day free from cooking later on in the week.
On a green day you cook from leftovers. The benefit here is that you reduce food waste and save money.
On a white day you don’t cook. You may reheat the extra blue meal or on a special occasion eat out, get a takeaway or even pop on a pizza.
An amber day is for flexibility, you don’t plan meals on these days.
What is the CORE 5 day plan?
The arrangement of these colours throughout the week is where Sian’s Plan is so powerful. Now we’re not just planning meals, we’re planning our lifestyles. Sian’s plan is suitable for all lifestyles.
For those that need flexibility or are just starting their Sian’s plan journey we have a CORE 5 day plan. 4 red days and 1 green day. This gives you peace of mind that you’re family are healthy and you save money at least 5 days a week. The CORE 5 day plan allows for unexpected events like that parent teacher meeting you forgot about.
What if you want to plan for 7 days?
For those more experienced or very well organised the 7 day plan gives you the benefit of healthy eating every day with the bonus of a day off from cooking. There are 4 red, 1 green, 1 blue and 1 white day.
First step - Create a Meal Plan
Creating a meal plan is easy and takes just 3 steps.
First step is to set the plan up by naming and dating it. We automatically name and date the meal plan for you but if you want to personalise it just click on 'My Meal Plan'. Currently on our free membership you can plan up to 5 days in advance, giving you the CORE 5 days, by upgrading to the full membership you can plan up to 7 days.
The next step is choosing the recipes you want to add to your weekly plan. You can search by clicking the search filters as shown below, if you click on the 'Green day recipes only' a list of recipes which can be made from store cupboard ingredients will appear. These recipes work great with any leftovers you might have in your fridge. Just add them in when your cooking to make cheap, delicious meals.
The third step is the best part, picking your recipes. If you're new to the site then search for recipes that you might like. When you get used to using Siansplan.com then you can favourite recipes, add recipes to your meal queue, or even add your own.
What the meal plan table looks like after a recipe has been added
If you want to know more about adding a meal plan, click here.
Second step - Create a Grocery List
Once you have created your meal plan for the week we will automatically generate a shopping list for you. If you click on the grocery tab at the top of the page this will take you to your shopping list where you can find shopping lists for your previous meal plans.
If you want to add your own Recipes go to our help section on adding you own recipes by clickinghere.
