meal planning

My New eBook- Plan It, Don’t Panic: Everything You Need to Successfully Create and Use a Meal Plan

January 12, 2012

Announcing my newest eBook... Plan It, Don't Panic: How to Successfully Create and Use a Meal Plan!

What if you could learn to meal plan in a way that helped you to eat better, while saving you money, time and stress?

After the huge success of the Plan It, Don't Panic Meal Planning Challenge that I ran [...]

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5 Frugal Real Food Meal Ideas

January 3, 2012

 
Written by Mindy, Contributing Writer
Without proper planning, a whole foods diet can be more draining on your wallet than you might expect!  However, by menu planning and incorporating meals with lower cost ingredients into my meal plans, I actually spend the same amount on groceries now as I did before we made the switch to [...]

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Resources and Recipes to Make Your Meal Planning Successful

September 15, 2011

With the Plan It- Don't Panic meal planning challenge beginning this Monday morning, now seemed like the perfect time to share some really helpful resources to help you succeed with your menus.
Learn more about how to make meal planning work (and some different methods for doing it), find tons of my favorite online recipes and [...]

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You Asked For It: Plan It- Don’t Panic! {A 6-Week Meal Planning Challenge}

September 9, 2011

All those who know that meal planning is a good idea, but struggle to actually do it, put up their hands! (Is yours raised?)
I definitely relate. I have been meal planning on and off (more on than off) for about 6 years. I know the benefits. I write about them. My budget and our family's [...]

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Planning Weekly to Eat Well

June 28, 2011
Peaches by stacykaren, on Pix-O-Sphere

Written by Sherrie Cook, Contributing Writer
I was recently looking at the Vision Forum for books and noticed their tag line. It reads, "Where there is no vision the people perish". What a powerful statement. When I applied that to my family it had deep meaning as well.
What things does my family need [...]

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Giveaway Week: Win 1 of 5 Yearly Subscriptions from Plan to Eat

February 14, 2011

*Giveaway has now ended*
I love to talk meal planning. I have plenty of reasons why I think that meal planning deserves some time and attention in your weekly or monthly schedule. I've also written plenty of suggestions and tips for how to meal plan(find some here).
Today I want to share with you a fantastic tool that [...]

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Creating A Dinner Time Routine

February 1, 2011

Written by Emily McClements, Contributing Writer
It's been a long day.  You're tired, the kids are cranky, or needy, or fighting, or all three at once, the house looks like a tornado just passed through, and you look at the clock and it's 5:00 pm and you think, "Oh NO! What are we [...]

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Lists for Homemaking and Home Educating (And a Giveaway!)

January 20, 2011

*Giveaway has now ended*
As I take some downtime this winter to recover and allow my body some time to heal, I am also contemplating my schedule for the upcoming months.
One of my major goals has been to clear a lot of the busyness off of my plate, making my schedule more realistic with a whole [...]

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Winners of Plan to Eat Memberships and Good Stuff to Come!

June 11, 2010

First of all, I've got two winners of a 1 year Plan to Eat meal planning membership!
Marla & Destiny!
Congrats, ladies! I hope you enjoy your membership as much as I'm enjoying mine!
To those who didn't win, I would definitely suggest that you sign up for a free 30-day trial membership if you haven't already. Give [...]

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Site Troubles and Plan to Eat Giveaway

June 7, 2010

Some of you may have noticed that there was some downtime for my blog this weekend. There are more things going on in the backend and with the design (nothing major- just trying to work out some kinks) but unfortunately the work resulted in a brief outage.
There are a few aspects of the site that [...]

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