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Happy Halloween! The holidays are here, but honestly, we’re more excited about soup season. Is soup on the meal plan every single week now? Absolutely. Let’s just hope our families don’t catch on for a few more weeks.
New Podcast Episodes
#117: Your First 3 Weeks of Meal Planning
We’re going back to the basics! In this episode, we’re helping overwhelmed listeners get started with meal planning and feel successful quickly. Our three themes for today’s episode are Foundation, Adjustment, and Personalization. Build the foundation of creating a meal planning habit, learn and adjust future plans, and start to personalize your planning to your life and personality.
#118: Advanced Meal Planning Strategies
When you are an advanced meal planner, you’re able to adapt and make changes on the fly without getting flustered. You become a meal planning strategist. In this episode, we discuss three strategies that advanced planners can use to get the most out of their meal plans. Plus, we break down how you can make these strategies possible with Plan to Eat!
We’ve been answering your Dinner Dilemmas in each new podcast episode. If you submitted a meal planning question, tune in every other Wednesday to see if yours has been answered!
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Recent Blog Posts
Should You Cut Out Gluten?
Ever felt like you maybe, probably, should cut gluten from your diet? Here’s some advice from Sally on when to go gluten-free and when it’s okay to remain gluten-full!
Sourdough with Inclusions: Jalapeño Cheddar Loaf and Dark Chocolate Almond Loaf
This post will show you one method for adding inclusions to your basic sourdough loaf, so you can create any flavor of bread you like!
Meal Planning Myths Busted!
These are the most common meal planning myths I hear, and they’re the very reasons so many people stay stuck in the stressful dinnertime scramble.
A Simpler Way to Plan, Shop, and Cook This Week
This is a great post to share with anyone who struggles with meal planning! We cover how you can collect your favorite recipes, build a meal plan that fits your real life, and shop with confidence using an organized list.
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Extras
New Feature: We added a search bar to the website Planner! You can now search the entire history of your planning calendar to figure out the last time you planned Zuppa Toscana or what you served with Mississippi Pot Roast. This has been a highly requested feature, and we’re so excited for you to try it!
September’s most popular recipe imports:
- One-Pot Garlic Parmesan Chicken Pasta from Sip + Sanity
- Slow Cooker Chili from NYT Cooking
- Marry Me Chicken Soup from AllRecipes
- Classic Apple Crisp from King Arthur Baking
- Roasted Butternut Squash Soup from Dr. Vegan
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:
This month, we released version 3.6.4-3.6.5:
- We added our Referral Program to the account page so you can Give 20% Off and Earn 20% Forever.
- We added support for opening a recipe in the app from a deeplink.
- We enabled the Friend Recipe save/unsave heart icon while searching.
- We fixed a bug that was breaking navigation to a Saturday from the Planner dropdown calendar.
- We fixed a bug that was blocking access to recipe details on friends’ menus.
- We fixed a bug that was breaking the recipe clipper browser extension on iOS 26
Desktop:
- We added a new search feature to easily highlight recipes in the planner. Additionally, you can search your entire history of planned events and select specific recipes to view all previously planned dates and see a snippet of the full day of recipes for selected dates.
Highlighted Reviews
“This app has been a game-changer for me. It makes it SO much easier to get dinner on the table every night! I can add any recipe I want from anywhere and then edit it if I want to make changes. The app allows me to easily double, half, or make even 1.5 times a recipe if I need to. I love the shopping list feature. It adds all the ingredients together for all the meals I’ve planned out and puts it on the list. And I can move items under specific stores if I need to. Love it!”
“Amazing app. So glad I finally have a spot for all my recipes. Easily entered old recipes off tattered cards, cut and paste from Word documents, collected all my favourites from Pinterest and now clipping and saving from the Web. Meal planning is a snap!”
