There are good free meal planning templates for Notion, Google Sheets and Canva. Sometimes they are all you need. This page is about when they are not, and what the $24 actually buys.
If your goal is to stop improvising dinner, any grid works: a Notion board, a Sheets table, a printed Canva page. Write seven dinners, done. If that is your problem, close this tab and grab a free one. No hard feelings.
Mise exists for a more specific problem: you train, you have a daily protein target, and every week you pay a hidden tax in mental work. Counting macros per meal. Adding them per day. Turning fourteen meals into one shopping list. Re-sorting that list so you do not walk the supermarket three times. A free template gives you the empty grid; all of that work stays yours.
| The weekly job | Free template (Notion, Sheets, Canva) | Mise |
|---|---|---|
| Daily macros | You look up and add every number yourself | The Sheet calculates calories and protein per day as you drop meals in |
| Shopping list | You re-read the week and write it out | Assembles itself from the plan, sorted by supermarket aisle |
| Recipes | Bring your own, count their macros first | 15 high-protein recipes with macros already counted |
| The paper on the fridge | Whatever the template happens to print like | A PDF designed for printing, A4 and US Letter |
| Setup | Free, plus your time to build the system around it | $24 once, plan your first week in about ten minutes |
| Ongoing cost | Free forever | Nothing else, ever; it is not a subscription |
That is the whole pitch: the grid is free everywhere, the filled system is what you are buying. If you enjoy building spreadsheets, you could absolutely build Mise yourself in a few evenings. The $24 is for not spending those evenings.
Plan the week in ten minutes, shop once by aisle, cook to your macros.
Buy Mise on Gumroad for $24