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I only plan dinners. We always have leftovers or I can make a sandwich for lunch. Starting this week, I'm planning two weeks worth of meals at a time. Hopefully, it will help keep grocery store runs to a minimum. This is what I have so far...

Taco soup + toppings
Burgers w/ baked beans & grilled veggies
Pulled pork BBQ + cole slaw
Salmon + veggies + quinoa
Chicken, Spinach, and artichoke casserole
Cilantro-Lime Chicken tacos + toppings
Sausage and spinach stuffed shells + salad
Grilled chicken + lemon basil pasta + asparagus

We usually eat the same thing for breakfast every morning and typically the same thing for lunch, unless we have leftovers, so I only meal plan for the week.

This is what I've got planned so far for next week (mostly stuff I intended to make this week, but we ended up eating leftovers instead):

- meatloaf, cauliflower, baked potatoes
- tofu, cabbage, rice
- Moroccan meatball stew

I only plan dinners, but for breakfast and lunch we eat pretty much the same things every day so I know what to pick up from the store each time.

So I know for breakfast I need to have tea, muffin mix/bread/english muffin, and fruit and luna bars if I'm short on time.

And lunch my husband takes the dinner leftovers and I make a panini and salad (bread, deli meat, cheese, spinach, grape tomatoes, cucumber) I switch up the meats, cheeses, condiments and dressings so I don't get too bored.

I eat the same thing for breakfast every day and lunch is usually leftovers (if for some reason we don't have any, I go with tuna salad). So I meal plan for dinner only and try and do most of the prep on Sundays after I grocery shop.

I plan for lunch and dinner, but lunch is often leftovers. For breakfast we always eat the same thing, so the ingredients go on my list automatically. We actually have a special program that one of the developers at DH's work made for us where I put all my recipes. I do my meal plan, selecting which recipes I will make when and then it gives me my grocery list. I haven't done my list for next week yet, I usually do it on Saturday mornings.

We plan lunches and dinners, because we both like lunchtime variety, even though there are often repeats (read: leftovers) during the week.

Not really, but usually what I'll do is decide what I want to eat for breakfast that week (frozen waffles, cereal, oatmeal) and then buy that and that's my breakfast. For lunch I have an idea of what dinners will create leftovers and which days we won't have leftovers (like if DH cooks, nothing he makes ever leaves leftovers, or if I know we're fending for dinner like if he has to work and I'm not up for cooking a whole meal), and try to buy something like soup for those days. Otherwise I'll just decide to eat out on those days. So I guess it's just a loose plan.

I only do dinners and only 3 meals for the week. The other nights we get home too late or we are planning to be at my parents for Sunday dinner or it's Friday, which is fend-for-yourself day. Besides, if we cooked every night, we'd be up to our eyeballs in leftovers.

We eat pretty the same thing for breakfast during the week (me, yogurt; Hubs, protein bar) and usually cereal on the weekends. For lunch we either pack a sandwich or leftovers. So I only meal plan for dinner, one week at a time.

For this coming week's meals, I have planned:
Meatball hoagies
Alphabet soup pot roast
Turkey-stuffed bell peppers
Asparagus lemon pasta
Crock pot pork and green chile stew

I typically plan only 4-5 meals per week, cuz we'll eat leftovers or eat out one or 2 nights a week. I shop once a week (usually Sundays). It has cut our monthly grocery bill down by about $40/month because I used to shop for the whole month and then things would spoil and I'd have to go back and replace them. This makes it much less expensive and much faster for me - I can be in and out of the grocery store in 20 minutes!

My house is like an episode of Chopped every night. I look in the fridge and the pantry and invent. So far I've only had one huge failure. Mandarin oranges are a tricky, tricky ingredient.