Free kitchen prep sheet template (Excel)

A working daily prep list, laid out the way a kitchen actually runs one: items by section, par and on-hand columns, the quantity to prep calculated for you, priority flags and a sign-off line. Built in Excel; opens in Google Sheets and Numbers too.

Download the free template (.xlsx)

Direct download — no email address, no sign-up. Opens in Excel, Google Sheets and Numbers.

How to use it

List your prep items by section (larder, sauce, pastry — whatever your sections are) and set a par for each.
On the day, fill in what's on hand; the sheet works out what to prep and you mark priorities for the things that must happen before service.
Print it for the wall or run it on a tablet. Set-up is once; the daily fill-in takes minutes.

When you outgrow it

When you want the numbers side too — what each prepped batch costs, scaled to any yield — the free in-browser PrepSheet tool does exactly that, and the Par-Level Prep & Order Sheet (£5.99) turns the same par logic into your daily ordering.

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