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The days are getting longer, schedules are shifting, and there’s a little more energy in the air this month. If your meal plan feels stuck, this is a great month to refresh it! As we trade hearty winter meals for fresh spring produce, let the new energy inspire you to try a new recipe or recommit to planning each week.
New Podcast Episodes
#126: Meal Planning for Busy Weeks and Unpredictable Schedules
This week, we’re helping you handle crazy schedules and a lack of time to plan and cook. Evenings get packed with kids’ activities, meetings, and errands. Schedules can change at the last minute, making it hard to cook consistently, prep ahead, or stick to a plan. If you find you’re often getting takeout, skipping meals, or wasting groceries, this episode is for you!
#127: Everyone in my house eats differently. Now what?
This week, we’re spending the entire episode tackling the problem of managing multiple diets and dietary needs in one house. Our goal is to help you avoid being a short-order chef in your house and reduce the burden of cooking for everyone’s needs and preferences. We hope you get a lot from this episode!
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Recent Blog Posts
What I Make for Dinner When I Don’t Want to Make Dinner
There are plenty of evenings when I’m worn out and burned out and just don’t want to cook. When I still want my family to have a somewhat square meal but one that’s decidedly low-effort, here are five favorite go-tos.
Why You Can’t Stick to Your Plan (And How to Fix It)
You’ve made your plan for the week and told yourself you’re going to be so prepared, but you find everything has fallen apart by Wednesday. It’s frustrating to feel like you’re always starting over.
Top Ways Meal Planning Saves You Time
The more familiar you get with meal planning, the faster it becomes. Most regular planners can create a weekly plan in 15 to 30 minutes. That small upfront investment saves hours throughout the week.
New on YouTube
Follow us on YouTube to get quick meal-planning tips and program tutorials!
Extras
Planning Conference Interest Survey:
What if we hosted a one-day planning conference? We’re imagining a day filled with practical systems, planning strategies, and industry-leading speakers who understand what it’s like to run a household. We’re exploring the idea and would love your feedback! Take our short survey here.
February’s most popular recipe imports:
- Tuscan Baked Spaghetti from The Kitchn
- Miso Chicken and Rice from Smitten Kitchen
- Slow Cooker Peanut Chicken from Skinny Taste
- Ramen Noodle Bake from PlantYou
- Crock Pot Creamy Ranch Chicken and Potatoes from Wishes and Dishes
Program Updates
The development team is working hard to make updates, squash bugs, and add new features to both the desktop and mobile app versions of Plan to Eat!
App:
We released app version 3.7.3:
- We fixed a bug that was causing ingredients to be incorrectly sorted after making changes in bulk edit mode.
- We fixed a bug that was causing ingredient editing to behave erratically when switching between bulk and line-item input modes.
Desktop:
- We improved our recipe clipper for greater accuracy on difficult-to-parse websites.
- We enhanced our recipe clipper to allow importing more recipes from YouTube.
- We made it simple to link your existing PTE accounts to your Google (or other OAuth provider) emails for single-click sign-ons.
- We refreshed the look and feel with more rounded design elements throughout the app.
- Added SSO (Google, Apple, etc.) login and sign-up buttons to the gift redemption page, so recipients can redeem gifts using their OAuth accounts.
- Redesigned the gift redemption page with a tabbed Sign up / Log in layout for a cleaner experience.
Highlighted Reviews
“I’ve used this app for years and I love it. Perfect for storing any recipe, whether imported from the web or manually entered by hand. When I make a meal plan the ingredients are automatically added to a shopping list. Easy to use and intuitive. ”
“I have been using this for at least 5 years now. I just discovered that I can pull recipes from instagram and sub stack. There is so much more I am still discovering. I use both the app and desktop version. I was not guided on how to meal plan growing up which caused so much food anxiety. This has made everything so smooth and streamlined.”
