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What’s New at Plan to Eat: April 2025
New Podcast Episodes We’ve been answering your Dinner Dilemmas in each new podcast episode. If you submitted a meal planning question, tune in every other...
Plan to Eat • May 2, 2025
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In the Kitchen
Are Frozen Foods Healthy?
When you think “healthy meal prep” you may picture an array of fresh vegetables or from-scratch dinners made entirely of fresh ingredients. Yet when you’re...
Guest Author: Sally • April 18, 2025
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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...
Roni • April 8, 2025
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What’s New at Plan to Eat: March 2025
New Podcast Episodes The Plan to Eat Podcast is serving up new episodes every other Wednesday! Support the pod by sharing it with your friends and...
Plan to Eat • March 28, 2025
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Recipes

Sourdough Pancake Recipe
After getting the hang of making a sourdough loaf, I wanted to try my hand at other sourdough recipes. I wasn’t sure where I should...
Guest Author: Anna • March 20, 2025
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In the Kitchen
15 Last-Minute Ways to Get Your Veggies
As meal planners, we pride ourselves on being prepared. But even the best planner can be caught empty-handed in the vegetable department. Maybe you fuss...
Guest Author: Sally • March 14, 2025
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Recipes

Blooming Baked Onion with Herb Butter
There’s something magical that happens when you take a humble onion, transform it into a blooming flower, and let it slowly bake until it becomes...
Guest Author: Linda • March 12, 2025
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What’s New at Plan to Eat: February 2025
Recent Podcast Episodes The Plan to Eat Podcast is serving up new episodes every other Wednesday! Download and subscribe to the podcast on all your favorite...
Plan to Eat • March 3, 2025
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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...
Roni • February 26, 2025
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What’s New at Plan to Eat: April 2025
New Podcast Episodes We’ve been answering your Dinner Dilemmas in each new podcast episode. If you submitted a meal planning question, tune in every other...
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What’s New at Plan to Eat: March 2025
New Podcast Episodes The Plan to Eat Podcast is serving up new episodes every other Wednesday! Support the pod by sharing it with your friends and...
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Sourdough Pancake Recipe
After getting the hang of making a sourdough loaf, I wanted to try my hand at other sourdough recipes. I wasn’t sure where I should...
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What’s New at Plan to Eat: April 2025
New Podcast Episodes We’ve been answering your Dinner Dilemmas in each new podcast episode. If you submitted a meal planning question, tune in every other...
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What’s New at Plan to Eat: March 2025
New Podcast Episodes The Plan to Eat Podcast is serving up new episodes every other Wednesday! Support the pod by sharing it with your friends and...
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What’s New at Plan to Eat: February 2025
Recent Podcast Episodes The Plan to Eat Podcast is serving up new episodes every other Wednesday! Download and subscribe to the podcast on all your favorite...
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Calling All Kombucha Fans: Kombucha Kamp Podcast & Giveaway!
This week on the Plan to Eat Podcast, we have an interview with Hannah Crum, aka The Kombucha Mamma! Hannah pioneered Kombucha Kamp, an educational...
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Announcing the 2023 March Gadget Bracket + Giveaway!
We are hosting the March Gadget Bracket! This bracket will determine our customer’s number one favorite kitchen gadget. At the end of the voting period,...
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Meal Prep for the Week Ahead
This month of meal planning tips and giveaways has been fun! We hope you’ve hopped back on the meal planning wagon and started a new...
Challenges
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Introducing Kitchen Confidence: Baking Basics
If you are at all interested in baking, we’ve got some really fun things coming up for you this month! Whether you are an aspiring...
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Announcing our Baking Basics Challenge and Giveaway!
This giveaway has ended! In May, we shared advice on how to become a better cook with posts about common cooking terms, utensils, and what...
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September 2020 Recap & Fall Cooking Challenge
Recent Articles from the Blog If you are looking for motivation, tips & tricks, new recipes, and so much more — the Plan to Eat...
Customer Stories
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Customer Stories: Meal Planning for a Sailing Trip
Last year, Heidi Priestley wrote to our help site asking for help while preparing a meal plan for a 5-week sailing trip from Mexico to...
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Customer Stories: Jenn
In 2018, we had a blog series called “Customer Stories,” where we interviewed several of you and shared your Plan to Eat stories with the...
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Plan to Eat saved our budget while diapers drained it.
As recently as 2015 I had no idea how to cook. I could stumble through spaghetti, and I could make cookies, but not much else....
In The Kitchen
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Are Frozen Foods Healthy?
When you think “healthy meal prep” you may picture an array of fresh vegetables or from-scratch dinners made entirely of fresh ingredients. Yet when you’re...
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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...
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15 Last-Minute Ways to Get Your Veggies
As meal planners, we pride ourselves on being prepared. But even the best planner can be caught empty-handed in the vegetable department. Maybe you fuss...
In The Garden
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4 Recipe Resources for Winter Meal Planning
Winter is not a season that boasts a long list of fresh fruits and vegetables like Summer and Fall. The conditions aren’t right. It’s not...
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3 Organic Garden Tips for Saving Time & Energy
You probably prefer things in life to be easier, less expensive, and less time consuming. Maybe you like to work smarter, not harder as well. ...
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Gardening for the Kitchen: Tips for Continual Harvests
How would you like to enhance the quality of your meals? How about with better flavors and better nutrition? What about fresh access right outside...
Meal Planning
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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...
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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...
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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...
Food Issues
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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...
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Do You Have Too Many Food Rules?
Eating in a way that makes you feel good mentally and physically is a positive thing. But in some cases, a focus on healthy eating...
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Navigating the Holidays with Food Allergies or Restrictions: Part 2
Last week, we shared three ways to navigate the holiday season with food allergies or restrictions. But sometimes going to other people’s parties and finding...
Book Reviews
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The Campout Cookbook Review
I have happy childhood memories of scenic drives into the mountains for a long weekend of camping, fishing, and playing in the dirt. My family...
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The Potato Primer Cookbook Review
I met Ronda Simmons at a one-day writing workshop back in July. She mentioned she was finishing up a cookbook and I told her I...
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New World Sourdough Cookbook Review
Like many people, I jumped on the sourdough bandwagon in 2020. I love a good sourdough loaf with a tangy, sour flavor and I wanted...
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Plan to Eat

What’s New at Plan to Eat: April 2025
New Podcast Episodes We’ve been answering your Dinner Dilemmas in each new podcast episode. If you submitted a meal planning question, tune in every other...
Plan to Eat • May 2, 2025
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In the Kitchen
Are Frozen Foods Healthy?
When you think “healthy meal prep” you may picture an array of fresh vegetables or from-scratch dinners made entirely of fresh ingredients. Yet when you’re...
Guest Author: Sally • April 18, 2025
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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...
Roni • April 8, 2025
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Plan to Eat

What’s New at Plan to Eat: March 2025
New Podcast Episodes The Plan to Eat Podcast is serving up new episodes every other Wednesday! Support the pod by sharing it with your friends and...
Plan to Eat • March 28, 2025
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Recipes

Sourdough Pancake Recipe
After getting the hang of making a sourdough loaf, I wanted to try my hand at other sourdough recipes. I wasn’t sure where I should...
Guest Author: Anna • March 20, 2025
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In the Kitchen
15 Last-Minute Ways to Get Your Veggies
As meal planners, we pride ourselves on being prepared. But even the best planner can be caught empty-handed in the vegetable department. Maybe you fuss...
Guest Author: Sally • March 14, 2025
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Recipes

Blooming Baked Onion with Herb Butter
There’s something magical that happens when you take a humble onion, transform it into a blooming flower, and let it slowly bake until it becomes...
Guest Author: Linda • March 12, 2025
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Plan to Eat

What’s New at Plan to Eat: February 2025
Recent Podcast Episodes The Plan to Eat Podcast is serving up new episodes every other Wednesday! Download and subscribe to the podcast on all your favorite...
Plan to Eat • March 3, 2025
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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...
Roni • February 26, 2025
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Recipes

Classic Homemade Sourdough Recipe
Have you tried your hand at sourdough yet? There is something really special about making a loaf of bread with your own hands using only...
Guest Author: Anna • February 20, 2025
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In the Kitchen
The cheap, eco-friendly superfood we should be eating more often!
It’s a food that’s good for you, great for the planet, wildly affordable–and lets you eat more plant-based meals without sacrificing protein. “Pulses” are the...
Guest Author: Sally • February 18, 2025
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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...
Roni • February 10, 2025
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Recipes

Creamy Mushroom, Barley, and Kale Soup Recipe
Groundhog Day has spoken, and Phil’s prediction is official: six more weeks of winter are heading our way! But don’t let that news send a...
Guest Author: Linda • February 5, 2025
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Plan to Eat

January 2025 Monthly Recap & Updates
Recent Podcast Episodes The Plan to Eat Podcast is serving up new episodes every other Wednesday! Download and subscribe to the podcast on all your favorite...
Plan to Eat • January 31, 2025
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App Review

ReciMe App Review: Pros and Cons
Overview: When it comes to managing recipes and meal planning, the ReciMe app offers a streamlined, entry-level experience. While it provides a range of features,...
Roni • January 29, 2025
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In the Kitchen

2025: Make Home Cooking Your Most Rewarding Resolution
There’s a misconception that home cooking is only for those who can’t afford to eat out. But home-cooked meals are so much more than a...
Roni • January 22, 2025
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In the Kitchen

2025 Resolution: More Family Time, One Home-Cooked Meal at a Time
During the holiday season, I spent a lot of time with family in different locations and at different houses, but one thing was the same...
Roni • January 15, 2025
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In the Kitchen
Healthy Packaged Foods That Make Dinner Easier
There’s no doubt that cooking at home is better for your budget than ordering out. It tends to be a lot better for you, too....
Guest Author: Sally • January 14, 2025
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Grocery Shopping

Saving Money in 2025: More Home Cooked Meals!
The Consumer Price Index states that in the one-year period from November 2023 – November 2024 the cost of eating food away from home rose...
Roni • January 8, 2025
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Plan to Eat

December 2024 Monthly Recap & Updates
Recent Podcast Episodes The Plan to Eat Podcast is serving up new episodes every other Wednesday! Download and subscribe to the podcast on all your favorite...
Plan to Eat • January 6, 2025
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Plan to Eat

We’re taking a holiday break!
The Plan to Eat team is taking a holiday break from December 24th – January 1st. This is a genuine break from work for the...
Plan to Eat • December 23, 2024
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In the Kitchen
6 Healthy Habits That Help Me Through The Holidays
We’re smack-dab in the middle of the holiday season, the sprint from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day that’s centered so much around food. There are...
Guest Author: Sally • December 17, 2024
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Plan to Eat

End of Year Recap & Updates 2024
As we approach the end of another year, we’re taking a moment to reflect. This year was filled with exciting program updates, fun new content...
Plan to Eat • December 16, 2024
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Recipes

Winter’s Perfect Bite: Caramelized Pear and Gorgonzola Tartlets
Why You’ll Fall in Love with These Tartlets Looking for a winter seasonal appetizer to impress guests or bring to a holiday gathering? These Caramelized...
Guest Author: Linda • December 11, 2024