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Community Meal Planner
Running a free community meal takes more than a menu. This community meal planner keeps volunteers, donations, the food plan and your guest count in one Excel workbook, and works for a sit-down dinner, to-go meals or meal boxes. It opens in Microsoft Excel and in Google Sheets, has no macros and nothing to install, and is yours to reuse as often as you like.
What you get
- Live dashboard: guests expected, volunteers confirmed, donations raised and a readiness check on one screen
- Volunteer roster by shift, with confirmation and background-check columns, and slots that count themselves as they fill
- Donation log separating cash and cheques from donated food and supplies, with running totals for each
- Food plan showing servings planned per dish against your guest target, so you can see coverage before the day
- Serving Style dropdown switches the whole workbook between a sit-down dinner, to-go meals and meal boxes
- Opens in Excel and in Google Sheets
$9.00one-time, no subscription
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What it does
- Live dashboard: guests expected, volunteers confirmed, donations raised and a readiness check on one screen
- Volunteer roster by shift, with confirmation and background-check columns, and slots that count themselves as they fill
- Donation log separating cash and cheques from donated food and supplies, with running totals for each
- Food plan showing servings planned per dish against your guest target, so you can see coverage before the day
- Serving Style dropdown switches the whole workbook between a sit-down dinner, to-go meals and meal boxes
- Guest signup sheet and a day-of runsheet so the team knows who is doing what and when
What it looks like
Every tab in the workbook
These are the actual sheet names in the file, not a feature list.
- CM · Dashboard
- CM · Start
- CM · Volunteers
- CM · Donations
- CM · Food Plan
- CM · Guests
Works in
- Microsoft Excel 2016 or later, Windows and Mac
- Google Sheets — upload to Drive and open
- No macros, no add-ins, no subscription
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