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5 Tips for Summer Meal Planning

Summer is right around the corner and when the weather gets hot, sometimes we would rather be outside playing, than figuring out what to eat!

Roni May 15, 2020

Top Three Food Labels Worth Remembering

Walk down any grocery aisle and it can feel like a gauntlet of misunderstood food labels – natural, organic, hormone free, and the list goes

Kim Stewart March 16, 2020

These Resolutions Should Make the List for 2020!

January is coming to an end, but there’s still time to make resolutions. It’s possible you’ve already come up with a solid list of things

Sara January 24, 2020

Sharing Plan to Eat With Your Household

We’re often asked what’s the best way to share Plan to Eat with a partner or family member. It’s as simple as sharing your login

Roni July 17, 2019

Beans, the Unsung Meal Plan Hero

Looking to mix things up with your meal plan this summer? Then why not add some beans! Yes, you heard me right, I said beans.

Sara May 17, 2019

Plan to Eat + ButcherBox (Review and Giveaway!)

We’re excited to introduce you to a company called ButcherBox. They are a delivery service that brings 100% grass fed and finished beef, free range chicken, heritage breed pork (and much, much more) right to your doorstep.

Riley May 2, 2019

The Formula for Easy Dinner

If only there was a magical formula for getting a nourishing, easy dinner on the table! Well there is!

Sara April 19, 2019

Meal Planning Can Help Facilitate Addiction Recovery

Meal planning impacts many aspects of our lives such as household budgeting, spending time together, and eating healthy food. These are the reasons many begin using Plan to Eat,

Plan to Eat July 5, 2018

Nutritious Meal Mapping, part 5

Super nutrition hopefuls! Learn how you can incorporate some of the most nutritious foods into your weekly meals. It’s easier than you think! Congratulations! You’ve

Sara June 30, 2016

The Best Meal Mapping Strategies, part 4

Put those Meal Mapping Skills to work! Learn the tips and tricks to make you a proficient Meal Mapper. Welcome to the fourth post in

Sara June 23, 2016

Meal Mapping and the Environment, part 3

Did you know that the food you consume and throw away plays a big role in the health of our environment? Learn how Meal Mapping

Sara June 16, 2016

How will Meal Mapping Help Me? part 2

Looking for more time, money and sanity? Want to live a more nutritious life? Well, then it’s time you gave Meal Mapping a try. If

Sara June 9, 2016

Meal Mapping, part 1

Your good intentions for nutritious cooking and eating usually fall apart when Monday rolls around, right? Why not give Meal Mapping a try? This handy

Sara June 2, 2016

Tips From a Professional Meal Planner & Cadence Health

For most of us meal planning is something we do to keep the wheels spinning on our household. Typically we are planning a week (or

Riley September 11, 2015

Do you factor in your workout plans when planning your meals?

“Tomorrow, I start healthy eating for real.” “Next week, I’m going to get on track and stay there.” “After this weekend, everything changes.” Sound familiar? Please tell

Amanda August 18, 2015

5 Tips to Stay on Track With Meal Planning When Life Gets Busy

Creating a weekly meal plan is a habit that has served me well over the last few years. It keeps me organized, saves on the

Tammy June 18, 2015

The Organize Yourself Skinny Weekly Meal Planning Process

Meal planning can be an overwhelming process. Now throw in trying to lose weight and feed a family of four and it can seem down right

Tammy April 30, 2015

Meal Planning: The “Not So Secret” Secret Weight Loss Strategy

Many people still hold on to the belief that weight loss comes in the form of a magic pill, potion, shake, wrap, or restrictive fad

Tammy March 12, 2015

Feeding the Growing Family: Budgeting and Planning

These days creating meals for my family is kind of like solving a puzzle. We have food intolerances – wheat, dairy, fruit, and sugars. We

Shannon May 6, 2014

Affording the Whole Cow

So, last month we talked about Buying the Whole Cow – reasons why you might want to buy meat in bulk and the cost savings

Stacy March 8, 2014

Buying the Whole Cow

Only crazy people buy a whole cow at one time. The people who raise a pig and then slaughter it, resulting in 231 pounds of

Stacy January 28, 2014

Introducing the Cooking View

We are excited to announce the launch of a new feature that allows you to take your Plan to Eat recipes into your kitchen using

Plan to Eat August 24, 2013

Automatically Generate Your Shopping List From Your Meal Planner

Over the next few weeks we will be posting tips and tricks, complete with videos, to better demonstrate how to work with the variety of

Plan to Eat June 30, 2013

How to Use Plan to Eat to Eat Seasonally

When I first started menu planning, right around the time my oldest son was born, I chose recipes, made a shopping list, and used that

Shannon September 6, 2012

Meal Planning with Less Meat

If any of you celebrated Thanksgiving like we did, you’re probably still completely stuffed from all the turkey you consumed these past few days! And

Andrea November 26, 2011

Simplify Your Meal Planning Routine

Source: Simple Organized Living The fall months are some of the busiest months for our family — and I suspect for many other families as

Andrea September 24, 2011

Using Pinterest to Reinvigorate Your Meal Plan

Have you discovered Pinterest yet? It’s truly one of my favorite social media sites (if you follow me on Life…Your Way as well, you may

Mandi July 28, 2011

Making The Most of Your Freezer

Photo by: sporkist When it comes to meal planning, I consider my freezer to be almost as valuable as my oven! At least one of

Andrea July 23, 2011

Our Favorite Food Bloggers

Photo by Simple Bites If you’re like me, and cooking doesn’t come easily, then food blogs are pretty much the best thing since sliced bread.

Mandi June 10, 2011

Week 4 Meal Plan and Giveaway Winner

We are on week 4 of our cooking adventure and we are inviting you to join us. We are cooking through Jamie Oliver’s cookbook Jamie’s

Lisa March 21, 2011

Week 3 Meal Plan

We are enjoying our Jamie’s Food Revolution cook-along. This is the third week. My cooking skills are being stretched and we are trying new things.

Lisa March 13, 2011

Week 2 Meal Plan and Giveaway Winner

We are continuing our Jamie’s Food Revolution cook-along for our second week. Here is the meal plan and the links to each recipe in our

Lisa March 6, 2011

Cooking through Jamie’s Food Revolution — Meal Plan, Week 1

In case you missed our last post, we have started a fun new cooking adventure that we are inviting you to join. We are cooking

Plan to Eat February 27, 2011

Creating a List of Pantry Staples

Keeping a well-stocked pantry is a valuable tool, along with menu planning, for ensuring that your family has healthy food available even when you’re not

Mandi August 7, 2010

Step by Step Menu Planning

There are a few different approaches to planning your menu. I thought I’d share my method first, and I’d love to hear how your method

Mandi July 18, 2010

Four Tips for Simplifying Your Menu Plan

Menu planning is a great way to simplify both your grocery shopping and meal preparation. Avoid the 5 o’clock stare down with the pantry by

Mandi July 8, 2010

A Plan-to-Eat Moment

A couple of weeks ago, we were on our way back from vacation and trying to decide when we would grocery shop for the week.

Mandi June 30, 2010

Why Meal Plan?

I’m excited to be joining the Plan to Eat team as a blogger and spokesperson. As a work-at-home mom of four little girls five years

Mandi June 23, 2010

Monthly Meal Planning

Today we launched one of the most requested features for Plan to Eat. You can now plan your meals using a Monthly Meal Planner. New Monthly

Plan to Eat September 23, 2009

Meal Planning Should Be Easier

That’s what my wife thought a few years ago, and that’s why I started working on a meal planning website called Plan to Eat that

Plan to Eat September 11, 2009

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