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As 2025 comes to a close, we’re reflecting on the past year and feeling grateful. We’ve made some fun enhancements to Plan to Eat, and our team has seen a few changes. Let’s dig into the highlights and share what’s on the horizon for 2026!
Noteworthy Program Updates:
As always, our development team dedicated countless hours this year to making Plan to Eat the most flexible and functional meal-planning app available. Here are some updates you don’t want to miss from 2025:
App:
- Photo Scanning: Snap a picture of a recipe card or cookbook page, and we’ll turn it into a digital recipe for you. No more typing in recipes by hand!
- Bulk Editing on the App Planner: Move, copy, or update serving sizes for multiple meals at once and save your favorite meal plans to reuse again and again.
- We added a “Quick Add to Shopping List” option for recipe ingredients when viewing a recipe or in the Cooking View.
Desktop:
- Planner Search: Quickly find recipes you’ve planned before to see how often you’re making recipes, and what you’ve served them with in the past.
- Custom Times for Sharing to Calendars: When you share your meal plan with another calendar, you can now set custom times for your recipes.
General:
- Flexible Prep Notes: Rename, reschedule, or delete prep notes like “chop onions” or “defrost chicken”, so they match your schedule each week.
- AI Ingredient Suggestions: Get instant ingredient substitutions for allergens, dietary needs, or whatever’s missing from your pantry.
- AI Beginner Mode: Rewrite recipe directions to make your recipes more beginner-friendly!
Most Popular Podcast Episodes:
- #116: How to Build a Plug-and-Play Meal Plan System
- #117: Your First 3 Weeks of Meal Planning
- #99: Eating Healthy on a Tight Budget with Kimberley Gillan
- #98: Improve Your Home Cooking with These Tips and Tricks!
- #115: The Plan Once, Shop Once Strategy
Popular Recipe Imports:
- Juicy Oven Baked Kebabs from Simple Home Edit
- Creamy, Spicy Tomato Beans and Greens from NYTimes Cooking
- Frozen Whipped Lemonade from The Kitchn
- One-Pan Beef Ramen Noodles from Simple Home Edit
- The Best Stuffing from How Sweet Eats
2025 Team Updates:
We said farewell to our Customer Support Lead, Shelby, in May. She returned to full-time nursing, but we’re so grateful for everything she brought to our team and community.
JD, our new software engineer, joined the team in July! You can thank him for recent updates such as Planner Search and AI Beginner Mode.
Personal Wins:
- Max, software engineer, sang at the Aspen Music Festival!
- JD, software engineer, got a job at Plan to Eat!
- Clint, founder and software engineer, built his own pizza oven!
- Riley, content creator, taught her oldest daughter to read!
- Roni, marketing and operations director, ran her first marathon!
Upcoming in 2026:
We’re committed to another amazing year with new updates to make Plan to Eat as functional and reliable as possible! Here’s a glimpse of what’s on the horizon at Plan to Eat:
- Mobile push notifications to help you feel ready for your next meal.
- Google Home/Assistant integration for the shopping list.
- New YouTube and Podcast content to inspire and educate you!
Holiday Break
Our team is taking a holiday break from December 24th to January 1st. This will be a genuine break from work for the entire team, including our support staff. If you have questions, you can still email us at help at plantoeat.com; however, we will not be available to respond until January 2nd, 2026.
Please refer to our help articles and YouTube channel for program questions and tutorials.
