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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...
Roni   •   May 8, 2025
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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...
Roni   •   April 8, 2025
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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...
Roni   •   February 26, 2025
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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...
Roni   •   February 10, 2025
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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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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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Yummly is Closing: Discover the Best Meal Planning Alternative

Find Your New Meal Planning Home with Plan to Eat As you may have heard, Yummly will permanently shut down its website and mobile app...
Plan to Eat   •   December 2, 2024
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Make Your Holiday Meals Easier!

There are so many things to keep track of around the holidays, from big meals to hosting guests to buying gifts. There’s simply not enough...
Roni   •   November 12, 2024
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4 Habits of A Successful Meal Planner

What’s your perception of a successful meal planner? Someone who plans out every single breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack with effortless precision? Maybe they’re also...
Roni   •   September 11, 2024
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How to Solve These 4 Common Meal Planning Problems

“Before I used Plan to Eat, I was so overwhelmed! I was buried in cookbooks, web browsers, and recipe printouts, lost in grocery lists and...
Roni   •   July 18, 2024
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Updating Our Mental Models to Rethink Meal Planning

Last year I started mountain biking, but I am a timid adventurer when it comes to anything off my own two feet. Put me on...
Roni   •   April 29, 2024
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From Chaos to Calm: How Meal Planning Frees Up Your Life

Imagine this, it’s 5 o’clock and you just got home from work. You haven’t eaten since lunch and you’re feeling a bit hangry, but you...
Roni   •   April 12, 2024
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Spring Recipe Roundup with the Plan to Eat Team!

Spring always feels like a good time to clean, get rid of clutter, and organize our lives after months of cold days and cloudy skies....
Roni   •   March 29, 2024
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4 Questions to Ask Before Meal Planning

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...
Roni   •   March 19, 2024
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My Simple, Flexible Meal Planning System

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...
Roni   •   March 5, 2024
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Pen and Paper Planning in Your Pocket – Why You Should Switch to Digital!

While a pen-and-paper plan is helpful, I’m here to convince the pen-and-paper planners (or dry-erase and whiteboard planners) that digital planning is better…because it is...
Roni   •   February 6, 2024
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Level Up Your Meal Planning with These Features!

This month we’ve covered lesser known features in the Shopping List, Recipe Book, and Meal Planner to help you get the most out of your...
Plan to Eat   •   January 30, 2024
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Discover Hidden Gems – The Meal Planner

This month, we’re all about showing you some hidden gems of Plan to Eat! If you missed the last two posts, we’ve already covered some features...
Plan to Eat   •   January 23, 2024
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Make the Most of Plan to Eat – The Recipe Book

This month we’re showing you how to use lesser-known features to help you get the most out of your Plan to Eat account! If you...
Plan to Eat   •   January 16, 2024
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Plan to Eat Hacks – The Shopping List

Plan to Eat has dozens of features to help you create meal plans that work for your family’s schedule and dietary needs. Everyone has a...
Plan to Eat   •   January 3, 2024
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How to Meal Plan Series: Maximizing Leftovers

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...
Roni   •   December 12, 2023
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Does meal planning feel overwhelming?

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....
Roni   •   December 1, 2023
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How to Meal Plan Series: Large Households

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...
Roni   •   November 13, 2023
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Eat This Much App Review: Pros and Cons

Eat This Much Overview. Eat This Much is a meal planning app that creates macro-friendly meal plans based on your preferences and budget. The program...
Roni   •   October 20, 2023
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