Don't we all?
I have blogged before about making menus and shopping lists; that I use google calendar to plan a month at a time.
Well, I've changed things around a bit.
I realized I needed to reprint our family cookbook; something I have to do every couple of years due to my kiddos taking after their mother in the neatness department. A 3-ring binder with printer paper just doesn't stand up to our messes.
But there has to be a better way!
I got doing some research and became aware of a lot of options out there I hadn't even dreamed of. After messing around with a couple different programs and apps, I decided to do the 30 free trial with "Plan to Eat."
To sum up the results: I, Cheapo Scrooge, am paying for a monthly subscription now.
(Update: PTE ran a Black Friday special where you get an entire year's subscription for $20! I bought it!)
Plan to Eat has three sections;
I have wanted to take our eating to the next step in healthy for some time, but hunting up the recipes I need, copying them down, finding the family cookbook and putting the new pages in them was just too much to put together at once. The PTE button does it all for me! I research what I want (grain-free lunches or sourdough chocolate cake, for example) Push the button and I'm done.
You can also add recipes by hand if you want. My whole family cookbook is now in PTE.
Then you go to the calendar section. There you can set your week to start whatever day you want (I shop on Thursdays so Friday morning is the beginning of my shopping week). From there, drag the recipes you want to use from the sidebar to the day and meal you want on the calendar. Change your mind about which meal you want a recipe in? No problem. Just drag it to where you want it. And you can copy from one meal, day, week, month to another very easily, making each month's menu plan a template for the next month.
And (the deal maker as far as I'm concerned) when you drop a meal on your planner, PTE automatically adds all the ingredients to your shopping list! You not only don't forget anything, you don't have to add up how many pounds of hamburger you will need over the next week because the app does it all for you!
Overall, I figure this app will save me at least half an hour just in meal planning and making my shopping list, and I haven't got the hang of all the bells and whistles yet either:-)
One major time savor is that there is an iPhone app to go with and I can always find my iPhone, where I can't always find the family cookbook.Simply less time hunting up the cookbook and then finding the right recipe is also well worth the money.
And how much are we talking about? $5 whole bucks a month. That's it. If it saves me just half an hour a week, that''s $10 an hour. Yeah, my time's worth that.
I'm trilled enough to sign up to be an affiliate, even though I've been simplifying those types of things out.
Hey! If just five of you sign up a month, they'll pay my bill! How about it :-D
Just click this pretty button:-)
I have blogged before about making menus and shopping lists; that I use google calendar to plan a month at a time.
Well, I've changed things around a bit.
I realized I needed to reprint our family cookbook; something I have to do every couple of years due to my kiddos taking after their mother in the neatness department. A 3-ring binder with printer paper just doesn't stand up to our messes.
But there has to be a better way!
I got doing some research and became aware of a lot of options out there I hadn't even dreamed of. After messing around with a couple different programs and apps, I decided to do the 30 free trial with "Plan to Eat."
To sum up the results: I, Cheapo Scrooge, am paying for a monthly subscription now.
(Update: PTE ran a Black Friday special where you get an entire year's subscription for $20! I bought it!)
Plan to Eat has three sections;
- Your recipe book
- Your calendar/planner
- Your shopping list.
I have wanted to take our eating to the next step in healthy for some time, but hunting up the recipes I need, copying them down, finding the family cookbook and putting the new pages in them was just too much to put together at once. The PTE button does it all for me! I research what I want (grain-free lunches or sourdough chocolate cake, for example) Push the button and I'm done.
You can also add recipes by hand if you want. My whole family cookbook is now in PTE.
Then you go to the calendar section. There you can set your week to start whatever day you want (I shop on Thursdays so Friday morning is the beginning of my shopping week). From there, drag the recipes you want to use from the sidebar to the day and meal you want on the calendar. Change your mind about which meal you want a recipe in? No problem. Just drag it to where you want it. And you can copy from one meal, day, week, month to another very easily, making each month's menu plan a template for the next month.
And (the deal maker as far as I'm concerned) when you drop a meal on your planner, PTE automatically adds all the ingredients to your shopping list! You not only don't forget anything, you don't have to add up how many pounds of hamburger you will need over the next week because the app does it all for you!
Overall, I figure this app will save me at least half an hour just in meal planning and making my shopping list, and I haven't got the hang of all the bells and whistles yet either:-)
One major time savor is that there is an iPhone app to go with and I can always find my iPhone, where I can't always find the family cookbook.Simply less time hunting up the cookbook and then finding the right recipe is also well worth the money.
And how much are we talking about? $5 whole bucks a month. That's it. If it saves me just half an hour a week, that''s $10 an hour. Yeah, my time's worth that.
I'm trilled enough to sign up to be an affiliate, even though I've been simplifying those types of things out.
Hey! If just five of you sign up a month, they'll pay my bill! How about it :-D
Just click this pretty button:-)
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