Read More
Grocery Shopping

How to Build a Meal Plan Using What’s Already in Your Kitchen
There’s food in the fridge, but nothing for dinner. Who can relate: You open the fridge to see half a bag of spinach, leftover rice,...
March 11, 2026
Read More
In the Kitchen

How to Reduce Food Waste in Your Kitchen
Food waste is the biggest bummer. Not only is it sad to throw food away, but you’re also throwing money away, too! Whether it’s stuff...
March 4, 2026
Read More
Lifestyle

Why You Can’t Stick to Your Plan (And How to Fix It)
One of the biggest challenges with planning (even if you’re a diligent planner) is staying consistent. You’ve made your plan for the week and told...
February 25, 2026
Read More
In the Kitchen

How to Meal Plan with a Busy, Unpredictable Schedule
Evenings are packed with kids’ activities, work, and errands. Plans change at the last minute, which makes it hard to cook consistently, prep ahead, or...
February 17, 2026
Read More
Lifestyle

Top Ways Meal Planning Saves You Time
Meal planning is often talked about as a big time saver. But if you don’t plan consistently, it can feel like the opposite. Sitting down...
February 4, 2026
Read More
Lifestyle

The Planning Systems That Make Life Feel Easier
There’s a lot to keep track of in everyday life, and most of it lives as a jumbled mess in our heads. I don’t have...
January 29, 2026
Read More
App Review

Samsung Food Review: Pros and Cons
Overview: Samsung Food (formerly known as Whisk) is an all-in-one meal planning app with a recipe book, meal planner, and shopping list. It allows you...
January 27, 2026
Read More
In the Kitchen

3 Ways to Make Meal Planning Part of Your Week
By the time dinner rolls around, you’ve already made a thousand decisions. Work, school schedules, appointments, texts, emails, and the constant background noise of remembering...
January 21, 2026
Read More
Learn to Plan

If You Start One Habit This Year, Make It Meal Planning
We’ve entered a new year, and yet nothing has really changed. Figuring out what to eat for dinner after work is still a struggle, the...
January 14, 2026
Read More
Using Plan to Eat

Get to Know the Staples List
Whether you’re brand new to Plan to Eat or a long-time customer, you may have come across the Staples List and wondered what it’s for...
January 8, 2026
Read More
Plan to Eat

Annual Recap & Updates 2025
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...
December 18, 2025
Read More
In the Kitchen

MasterCook Transition – The Best Meal Planning Alternative
Find Your New Meal Planning Home with Plan to Eat With MasterCook’s recent transition to Cook’n, we know many of you are searching for a...
December 15, 2025
Read More
Learn to Plan

Meal Planning Tips for Beginners
Recently, I reached out to the members of our Facebook Group to ask for advice for new meal planners. Per usual, our customers didn’t disappoint...
December 10, 2025
Read More
Meal Planning

Meal Planning Myths Busted
If you’ve ever told yourself you don’t need a meal plan, or you’re too busy, too spontaneous, or too disorganized, you’re not alone. These are...
October 14, 2025
Read More
Learn to Plan

A Simpler Way to Plan, Shop, and Cook This Week
You want to cook more meals at home, but every week the same frustrations pop up: forgotten recipes, scribbled grocery lists, and that 5 p.m....
October 7, 2025
Read More
Learn to Plan

Plan With What You Already Have on Hand
Most of the time, meal planning starts with recipes: you find dishes you want to make and then shop for the ingredients. But sometimes, the...
September 11, 2025
Read More
In the Kitchen

5 Signs You Need a Meal Planning System
You’ve printed the templates.You’ve made the Pinterest boards.You wrote the grocery list (but still left it at home).Maybe you even stuck to your meal plan...
August 6, 2025
Read More
In the Kitchen

Can’t Stick to Your Meal Plan? Try These Simple Fixes
You sit down, plan your meals, and maybe even get excited about a recipe in the week ahead. But by Wednesday, the plan has gone...
July 15, 2025
Read More
In the Kitchen

Too Tired to Cook After Work? Here’s How to Make Dinner Happen Anyway
This past weekend, I was chatting with my mom about ways we’ve both started saving money. I told her one of the biggest things that’s...
June 19, 2025
Read More
In the Kitchen

The Problem with Online Recipes (And What to Do About It)
Let me start by saying: I love recipes. I’m deeply grateful to every food blogger who’s ever shared their grandma’s secret sauce, their one-pot weeknight...
June 5, 2025
Read More
In the Kitchen

Dinner Shouldn’t Add to Your Stress
Life is busy and mentally exhausting. From the moment you wake up, you’re making decisions: what to wear, how to respond to that email, how...
May 8, 2025
Read More
Food Issues

Food is Expensive Right Now – How You Can Lower Your Grocery Costs
Groceries aren’t a budget-friendly line item these days. Prices keep rising, and it’s easy to feel like your food costs are out of control. But...
April 8, 2025
Read More
Meal Planning

Celebrating 100 Episodes of the Plan to Eat Podcast!
This week, we hit an incredible milestone – the 100th episode of the Plan to Eat Podcast! With less than 5% of all podcasts reaching...
February 26, 2025
Read More
Learn to Plan

Meal Planning That Fits Your Life: 3 Alternative Strategies
When many people hear meal planning, they picture a perfectly organized chart of three meals a day, seven days a week, with everything assigned to...
February 10, 2025
