Meal Planner — A Week of Family Dinners
Tween plans a full week of family meals considering nutrition, budget, variety, and family preferences. Parent provides real constraints and discusses trade-offs. This activity reveals complex planning ability, nutrition awareness, and constraint satisfaction — the skill of optimising across multiple competing requirements simultaneously.
Free to do together whenever you like.
What you'll need
Paper and pencil for planning. The parent should be prepared to share real household information: approximate weekly food budget, family dietary requirements or preferences, which evenings are time-poor (late activities, work commitments), and any allergies or restrictions. Having a rough grocery delivery price list or supermarket app available can make budget estimation more realistic.
How it works
The 3-step guide, with what to look for at each step, is for signed-in parents.