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September 2024 Monthly Recap & Updates

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October 3, 2024
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Recent Podcast Episodes

The Plan to Eat Podcast is serving up new episodes every other Wednesday! 
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Episode #89: Month-Long Planning with Rebecca Zipp

Food has been an important part of Rebecca’s life since 2009, when she saw firsthand how it can be used to heal. Since then, she has strived to provide her family with nourishing meals using as many local ingredients as possible. She writes at her website, ahumbleplace.com, where she offers resources for homeschoolers and guides for food and meal planning. This conversation with Rebecca centers around using Plan to Eat for her month-long meal-planning process!

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Episode #90: Why Family Meals Matter with Roni and Riley

Riley is back this week to help cover the topic of family meals and why we should be trying to have more meals together with our families. We share a lot of helpful tips and ideas during this conversation so you can feel empowered to have more family meals starting this week!

Recent Articles from the Blog

Fall has arrived at Plan to Eat HQ, but we’re not giving up our garden tomatoes or ice cream just yet! Check out our great blogs from this month and take a peek at what’s in store for October!

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What Are Food Sensitivities?

Food sensitivities (also called food intolerances) are different from food allergies, which are immune responses that can result in life-threatening reactions.

Creamy Pumpkin Pasta Casserole

This Creamy Pumpkin Pasta Casserole is the perfect expression of fall flavors, combining seasonal pumpkin and herbs with savory bacon, mushrooms, melty cheese, and that old crowd-pleaser…pasta!

Cinnamon Apple Scones

To put a twist on our fall apple bakes this year, I decided to try some cinnamon apple scones, and they do not disappoint!

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4 Habits of A Successful Meal Planner

Being successful at meal planning has nothing to do with what’s on the meal plan, how many days are planned for, or the amount of detail. A successful meal planner is a consistent meal planner.

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Re-post: 4 Tips for Reducing Your Grocery Bill

We have four tips on how to save money on groceries that don’t involve buying less food for your family! But before you implement those tips, the first step is to create a meal plan.

What’s New

  • We’re giving away a lifetime subscription to Plan to Eat! Head over to this Instagram post for how to enter.
  • Over 40 and Fabulous Summit: Our marketing director, Roni, is featured as the meal planning expert in this free online summit! Over 40 and Fabulous is for women over 40 who want to reclaim their energy, mood, and sleep –  it’s free to join and you’ll learn tons from Roni and over 20 other amazing expert speakers.

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!

Desktop Version

  • We added Dark Mode so you can meal plan in the dark! Update your display settings from the website account page.

Mobile App

Turn on app auto-updates or update in App Store/Google Play to get the most recent version of the Plan to Eat app!

This month we released app version 3.3.11

  • We made some enhancements to the planner aesthetics and usability.
  • We made replaced the bulk-select buttons with icons.
  • We added an item-count indicator on the Shop tab.
  • We added two dialogs to the new user onboarding experience.
  • We added a survey step to the account cancellation process.
  • We made some changes to the welcome screen on the Cook Tab.

Highlighted Reviews

“I used to keep a google drive folder with recipes and then have to make an excel spreadsheet for all the ingredients I needed to shop for. This app had eliminated all that work and is so smart and simple to use.”

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“I’m a mom to four with very BUSY schedules revolving around school and sports. Plan To Eat has been such a helpful tool to keep us eating at home more often than eating out which can be so spendy as a large family. The ability to import recipes is my fave feature by far! “

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