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This app has changed my life!!
I was terrible about keeping up with all my recipes that I had printed, saved on different websites and apps. I found this app and game over. It’s awesome. I have imported all my recipes from my other sites so they are all now in the same place. You can also import any recipes you find on the internet. Best of all, you can organize, tag and keep them all the way you want them, making them so easy to find. You can use the preloaded categories and tags as well as create unique ones for your needs. After you have all your recipes ready to go, you can go in and plan your meals on the included calendar. You can even schedule in leftovers AND it has a freezer tracker. If you make a recipe and decide to freeze it, just add it to the tracker and you can always see on your app what’s in your freezer.
I can’t express how much I love this app and how it has streamlined my meal planning and organization!!
Get it, you won’t be sorry!Show lessKjhensley 23
Overpriced and not great for efficient meal planning
I paid for this app for the last 2 years, and I don’t hate it. It stores recipes and compiles grocery lists based on the exact ingredients of the recipe you assign to the days of the week. It will import recipes from websites too, but that is more than a little buggy. The recipe import often takes multiple tries to work and it doesn’t like fractions (1/4 cup) or apostrophes and will replace these with random symbols. Not the end of the world, except you want $55 PER YEAR for this? It doesn’t even make sense that this is a subscription, let alone such a pricey one. A one time fee of $55 sounds expensive but more in the realm of what it’s actually worth, but every year? The app does not offer new content or features, which would justify a subscription-based fee system. They are charging the same as a digital subscription to the Washington Post… to compile grocery lists.
Another thing I don’t love is this style of meal planning. It keeps you in the headspace of needing to plan meals that REQUIRE recipes for each night of the week, which makes it easy to create a lot of food waste and will also jack up your grocery bill. It does not lend itself well to brainstorming meals with ingredients that overlap and use things you already have on hand. If you’re trying to save on groceries and limit food waste, this is not the app for you.Show lessStella.vz
The meal prep planner of all planners!
We’ve been grateful for this app for 10+ years, and it keeps our bellies in check knowing what’s happening in the kitchen each day. The entire internet is my cookbook with the slick use of the import feature to grab recipes and add it to my personal collection. From there, it generates my grocery list based on the date range selected after I’ve plugged in my receipts on the planner. From there, I can pair it down if I already have the ingredient at home, reducing redundancies in my pantry. When I go grocery shopping and take my kids with me, we each have the app and can take on a portion of the list to grab items at the store, then sync the app every few minutes, cutting down the time it takes us to be in and out of the building. It allows my kids to have an active role in helping mom out, and teaches good life skills. I know that this app has saved my family of 7 thousands of dollars over the years. I’ve recommend this app to all my friends, and I hope this app is here to stay for the long haul!Show lessSeiwertSquad7
Weekly essential
This app is the only way I don’t go insane planning meals and shopping lists for my family. I always forget something I need for a recipe if I just plan recipes, the way this adds items from recipes to your shopping list has kept that from happening for ages now. No one has to ask what is the plan for dinner, they can just open the app, see the plan, see the recipe, and get to work, since all the ingredients were purchased the weekend before. I added recipes that I use a lot as well as “recipes” that are just quick meals that we make a lot, like pasta that includes homemade sauce from the freezer (I put it on the plan and then can cross off things I have when checking through cupboards before shopping). It’s also great for people who really share shopping and cooking duties with their spouse and/or older children or if you had a roommate, that way anyone can get dinner going if they’re around when it needs to happen. Like I said, it’s essential!Show lessTrumpetheads
Helpful and easy to use!!
I find it easiest to import recipes from a website using the downloaded recipe clipper, but have also copied the web address, both work great. I think the most helpful thing is the shopping list. I am cooking more and have pulled in a bunch of my recipes from Pinterest ( I open the recipe in web browser and then use the clipper), then I have been planning my week on the calendar. Then all you do is print shopping list, I review and clear any items I already have, and print. The list tells you which recipes each ingredient is for, which can be helpful. It really saves a lot of time and effort. It is only my husband and I, but when I had kids at home this would have been so awesome, but I still think it’s helpful even for the two of us! The calendar is great as well. Recipes can be moved easily, you can also change the number of servings and it adjusts the ingredients for you. I usually work off my desktop computer, but I use my iPad when I’m cooking and the app is on my phone, but I use that the least ( probably because I’m older and I like a larger view). I give it 5 stars for being easy to use, helpful, and good tutorials.Show lessShechap
Killer App for organizing, cooking, planning and shopping meals!
We have been using Plan to Eat for almost one year and it has been amazing actually.
Prior to trying Plan to Eat, we were attempting to manage our shopping and meal planning with spread sheets, refrigerator white boards, sticky notes and a recipe folder! Plan to Eat streamlined our process right out of the gate. The ability pick your meals for the week based on our stable of recipes that live in-app and then instantly generate a shopping list?! It really was a game changer. The ability to seamlessly pull in recipes from websites is also amazing and has led to us being more adventurous with our meal options simply because it’s so simple to pull in the new recipe and be ready to shop for it.
While it was immediately useful and became the foundation of our planning with the just the core features, it’s also great that we’re still learning about useful facets a year in. Being able to verbally tell Siri to add random basic staple items to this week’s shopping list on the fly comes to mind.
Two features we would love to see are the ability to search our ‘staple items’ list, and the ability for the ‘Plan’ tab to always default to whatever the current day is when we choose that tab.
If you’re considering a way to get your grocery shopping and meal planning act together, I honestly couldn’t recommend this app enough!Show lessRustedWrites
Planning, shopping, cooking just got easier!
I was skeptical a first. Could this app help me manage the weekly chore of making family meals? But after my first month I was completely sold. I can find recipes on line, and download them directly. If I need to change the recipe or portions it's a click of the button. And I can leave my additions on the recipe for the next time I make it. My weekly planning schedule of meals gives me a shopping list for each recipe, and that's easy to change as I go through the pantry. You can store the recipes which ever way works best for you. For example: I have Main Course-Beef, Main Course-Chicken; Cakes-Bundt, Cakes-Chocolate. Since the app is on my phone, if I'm out shopping and see pork chops on sale, I can quickly see what I need for making a favorite dish. I've cut out thousands of recipes over the past 53 years of marriage, and spent many hours searching for recipe I knew I had...somewhere. In the past I've used index cards and boxes, and three ring blinders to store my recipes. But this app beats them all!Show less4871db
Best in class! Essential!
I first discovered PTE in 2015 while searching for yet another app to keep my recipes. This one has multiple easy ways to import or edit them, effortlessly displays them well on my computer, ipad, & iphone, & has the best search function I've found. I was thrilled that it didn't come with pre-loaded recipes to clutter up my collection. You can include a photo with each recipe, & it prints a very attractive recipe page, which I have done to make customized recipe books as bridal shower presents.
The meal planner function is so useful & fun to use. By specifying or dragging a recipe to a date & meal, you have a calendar plan & the app automatically creates a shopping list. Check off the items in the list you already have & then go to the store, with items grouped by sections of your choice (meat, produce, dairy, etc.). Since the app can be shared by family members, others can shop by using their device to access the app.
This app is the easiest way I've found to share my recipe library with family & friends. They can import any of my recipes into their library & modify there if desired without affecting mine.
I love how the developers have supported & improved PTE over the years, which protects my reliance on it. I prefer the computer browser version for menu planning & recipe capture, the iPad version for cooking, & the iPhone version for shopping.Show lessGizmoTX
Makes eating at home so easy
I’ve had Plan to Eat for years. It’s one app I use every single day. It’s super easy and convenient to be able to pull recipes in from online sources by either “clipping” them and having them automatically load, by importing the web address, or by adding them manually. You can also add recipes by hand if they’re not available online. You can share recipes with friends and save your friends’ recipes to your own collection. It’s easy to sort, categorize, and tag recipes with the premade categories or by adding your own.
When you save a recipe to your collection, you can add it to your planner and it automatically generates a shopping list. You can use the app when you’re in the store to tick off the items as you shop. You can have multiple stores, and you can even arrange your list by the grocery isles.
There are SO many other features, but the three I mentioned are the ones I use daily. Plan to Eat is one app that’s well worth the money!Show lessCFFree
My most used and most recommended app!
Three Facts/Data Points:
1. I have renewed my purchase of PTE for SIX years! There is no other app that I have done this for and I often find myself in random conversations with other people explaining how this app saves me time by helping me collect, plan, shop, and cook.
2. My phone's Screen Time shows that this is the app that I use more than any other. I've had a smartphone for 16 years. For all their positives and negatives, I'm happy that the majority of my time on these things is used for a productive and beneficial outcome for the people I love. :)
3. PTE is continuously releasing improvements. As a product manager for a different type of tech product, I pay extra attention to this and value how the team has anticipated my needs and creates such a simple and clean UX. I love their marketing emails too! I have shared them with my team.
Great job to the PTE team! I renew during their annual 1/2 price Black Friday Sale but the app is truly worth the full price!Show lessgroverette
