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It’s finally spooky season, and you can start using pumpkin for everything: pumpkin scones, soups, dips, pizza, and even facial treatments! As the leaves change and temperatures drop, we hope you try some fun and exciting new recipes.
New Podcast Episodes
#115: The Plan Once, Shop Once Strategy
In this episode, we talk about meal planning for a longer stretch of time and then only grocery shopping once to save time and energy. We also cover coordinating your recipes to save money and adapting your plan for sales or seasonal ingredients.
#116: How to Build a Plug-and-Play Meal Plan System
The best part about having a meal planning system is that it takes the decisions out of planning! In this episode, we discuss creating meal planning templates for easy drag-and-drop planning, “capsule” meal planning (and what it means), and how to plan around what you already have at home. These systems are going to help you save money, waste less food, and take a lot of brain drain out of meal planning!
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
Plan With What You Already Have On-Hand
Maybe you’ve got a full pantry, a CSA box delivered to your doorstep, or meat from a local butcher that you need to use up. In these cases, it makes sense to “reverse meal plan”, starting with what’s already in your kitchen and building meals from there.
One-Pot Garlic Parmesan Chicken Pasta
This One-Pot Garlic Parmesan Chicken Pasta checks all the boxes: juicy chicken, tender pasta, vibrant broccoli, a creamy parmesan sauce, and only one pot to wash.
Homemade Sourdough Biscuits
The discard adds a depth of flavor that normal biscuits don’t have without being overwhelming at all. I definitely recommend trying these out for your next big weekend breakfast!
Why are some people hating on seed oils?
If you’re wondering whether you should avoid seed oils, here are a few things you should know.
New on YouTube
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Extras
September’s most popular recipe imports:
- Chicken Shawarma Sheet Pan Dinner from SkinnyTaste
- One-pan Beef Ramen Noodles from Simple Home Edit (Roni agrees – this recipe is great!)
- Miso Peanut Ramen Bowls from Pinch of Yum
- Pili Pili Shrimp with Braised Cannellini Beans from NYTimes Cooking
- Pumpkin Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins from Ambitious Kitchen
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 3.6.1 – 3.6.2:
- We added Sign-in with Apple to our login options!
- We improved the experience of checking off steps and ingredients in the Cooking View.
- We fixed the Plan Recipe modal so you can see (and deselect) your selected recipes.
- We patched a bug that was causing glitchy behavior when importing recipes.
- We updated our icons to provide a more modern and consistent visual experience.
- We added Daily Nutrition Totals to the Planner, complete with a Recommended Daily Values breakdown.
Desktop:
- We updated our help widget to provide better customer support with AI-powered assistance, with the option to contact a real person still.
- We updated our icons to provide a more modern and consistent visual experience.
Highlighted Reviews
“This app is very handy and user-friendly. If I’m at the store and can’t remember what goes in a recipe, I just look it up on PTE!”
“How is everyone not using this app? It is by far the best meal planning app out there, and I have tried many, many other options. I love that I can import my recipes from anywhere, even Instagram.”
