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These months are a time of transition, and sometimes it’s just plain awkward! Wear a sweater in the chilly morning air and wish you had a tank top at lunch. Plan a leafy green salad for dinner, and suddenly there are three inches of snow on the ground. If your clothing choices and meal plans feel clunky this month, don’t worry, you’re not alone! This is the perfect time to stay flexible and adjust your plans as things shift.
New Podcast Episodes
128: How to Use What You Already Have (And Waste Less Food)
This week, we’re tackling food waste! Leftovers pile up, ingredients get pushed to the back of the fridge, and before long, our precious kitchen inventory goes to waste! Riley and Roni discuss practical strategies for reducing food waste and using up what you already have at home. We will teach you our favorite meal planning strategies to actually use the food you’re buying and stop wasting it!
#129: How to Beat Dinner Decision Fatigue
In this episode, we’re combating a lack of creativity and recipe ideas with so many great tips to help you create this week’s meal plan. From finding new recipes online, to phoning a trusted friend, to capsule meal planning. We hope you feel inspired and ready to start planning at the end of this episode! Enjoy!
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Recent Blog Posts
3 dinner strategies for picky eaters
Whether it’s your child or your spouse who’s the picky eater, here are three strategies that will make “just one meal” go down a lot easier.
Sourdough Focaccia from Discard
My favorite thing about this recipe is that it uses sourdough discard combined with instant yeast to speed the process up significantly. It takes just under 3 hours to make this focaccia – from mixing the dough to taking it out of the oven.
How to Build a Meal Plan Using What’s Already in Your Kitchen
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.
Vietnamese-Style Caramelized Ground Beef Bowls
Vietnamese-style caramelized ground beef bowls are bold, savory, lightly sweet, and perfect for busy weeknights. Ground beef is quickly seared in a hot skillet, then tossed with brown sugar, garlic, ginger, and fish sauce until glossy and deeply flavorful.
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Extras
March’s most popular recipe imports:
- Vietnamese-Style Caramelized Ground Beef Bowls from Sip+Sanity
- Quinoa Salad with Chicken, Almonds, and Avocado from NYT Cooking
- Sourdough Focaccia from The Little Blue Mixer
- Street Corn Beef and Sweet Potato Bowls from Pinch of Yum
- Italian Grinder Chicken Salad from Bad Batch
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 3.7.6:
- We added an extra verification step when signing in with Google or other single sign-on providers, making it easier to link accounts and prevent accidental account creation.
- We patched several minor errors causing unexpected behaviors or occasional app crashes for some users.
- We made the app feel more spacious on phones with notches by making better use of the screen real estate.
- We freshened up buttons and cards throughout the app with a smoother, more rounded look.
Desktop:
- We’ve significantly improved the accuracy of our nutrition facts. Our AI now does a better job of matching your recipe ingredients to the right USDA nutrition data, so calorie and nutrient counts are more reliable.
- Nutrition facts now cover more ingredients. When a USDA match can’t be found, our AI will estimate nutrition values directly, so fewer ingredients show up without data.
- We’ve improved portion size accuracy for nutrition calculations. Ingredients like spices, eggs, and chicken breasts now use smarter weight estimates, leading to more precise per-serving nutrition facts.
- You can now update your preferred email, even with accounts created with SSO, such as Google or Facebook.
- You can now import Instagram recipe reels that have the recipe spoken in the video (rather than written in the caption). We automatically transcribe the video audio and extract the recipe from the transcript.
- You can now import Instagram reels with recipe text displayed on screen (but only music in the audio). We use AI vision to read the on-screen text and extract the recipe.
Highlighted Reviews
“This is the one app I absolutely cannot live without (I’ve tried). They are continually updating and developing it. It makes the most of planning and blows all the other apps out of the water.”
“Makes meal planning less of a chore and they make it easy to import recipes with so many different options. 10/10 recommend.”
