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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...

Meal planning helps you reduce stress and stay organized in the kitchen, but at times, it can feel overwhelming. While each family will have their...

Last week I was creating my meal plan, and when I looked at my calendar I was surprised there wasn’t much happening that needed to...

Several years ago, my teammate Riley and I shared how we create our meal plans to help customers see how we use the program. I...

Over the past several months, we’ve covered different methods of meal planning like using a planning template, planning around your schedule, planning around what you...

Meal planning doesn’t need to overwhelm you! Just like anything else, meal planning is a habit you can practice and get better at over time....

The previous installment of our How to Meal Plan Series focused on planning for a small household, serving one or two people. Today, we’re flipping...

Welcome back to our How To Meal Plan Series! If you’re interested in reading about other “how to plan” methods, check out these posts: While...

In continuing our series on different ways to meal plan (you can find the previous blog on templates here and the blog on schedules here),...

While everyone has a different planning style, the most common way to meal plan (and the way we often teach) is to plan around your...

Everyone has their own style of meal planning. From dinners only to month-long planning, there are endless ways to create a meal plan. And there’s...

There could be any number of reasons you’ve lost your habit of meal planning, it became too tedious, you went through an unpredictable stage of...

The number one reason to meal plan? It’s worth it. Whatever effort you put into creating your meal plan is a gift to your future...

At Plan to Eat, we not only want to provide the most reliable and efficient meal planning software, but we also want to simplify your...

In an ideal world, we would always have unlimited energy and inspiration for creating meal plans, but sometimes, meal planning is just another item on...

I have notes and reminders scribbled in every possible place from sticky notes on my desk to brainstorming flow charts tucked into my weekly planner....

If you consider yourself an organized person, then you probably already meal plan. But if you’re meal planning the old fashioned way with cookbooks (or...

It’s that aggravating part of January, when our goals and resolutions start to fall off the rails. If we weren’t already struggling to keep everything...

We know not everyone comes to meal planning naturally. It feels like the business of someone who’s organized and enjoys planning their entire life. However,...

All life-changing habits, whether it be budgeting, exercising, or meal planning, have their misconceptions. And that’s probably because there are many ways to understand and...

Rather watch than read? Check out our meal planning benefits video on Youtube! If you’re new to meal planning, you might be wondering what the...

Q: How will Plan to Eat help me save money? A: Creating a meal plan saves you money on groceries because you only shop for...

Have you ever planned a wholesome, delicious meal and then when it got to the table, half of your family didn’t want to eat it?...

If you meal plan with cookbooks, a calendar, and pen and paper, you might think it’s silly to say that meal planning can save you...