The Plan to Eat Podcast
Join Roni and Riley for practical conversations about meal planning, family meals, grocery shopping, and cooking at home. Each episode shares simple strategies to save time in the kitchen, reduce your grocery bill, use the food you already have, and make dinnertime less stressful.
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This is a replay of one of our favorite episodes! Even though we're heading toward the end of summer, there is still so much fresh produce available and plenty of reason to give this one a listen.
We walk through everything that's in season during the summer, talk about farmers' markets and CSAs, and why they're worth exploring. We get into how to pick a good melon, which vegetables you can regrow right on your counter, and do a mini deep dive on eggplant and cherries that includes some facts we think will genuinely surprise you.
We also share a handful of summer recipe ideas to help you make the most of what's still fresh and in season. Enjoy!
This week we're talking about building a meal system, which goes beyond the weekly task of picking recipes and making a grocery list. A meal plan is the action. A meal system is the infrastructure behind it, and having one makes everything work so much better.
We walk through all the pieces that make up a meal planning system:
- Your planning routine
- Recipe organization
- Your grocery shopping strategy
- Fallback meals
- Your household reality
- Cooking habits
- Your planning tools
The goal is to help you figure out what your system can look like based on your real life. We hope you enjoy!
This week we're talking about planner personalities! After years of talking to Plan to Eat customers, answering dinner dilemmas, and reading your emails, we've noticed some pretty distinct patterns in how people approach their planning. We put together five meal planning personality types, and we think you're going to recognize yourself in at least one of them.
We walk through each type, the pros and cons, and make the case that most of us are actually some combination depending on the season of life we're in.