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Life is good with Plan to Eat
I have been using Plan to Eat for several years now. This site makes my planning, shopping and cooking so much more easier. If I’m at a store and want to know what ingredients I need for a recipe, I take my phone and find the recipe right there. If someone asks me if I’d share a recipe, I do it right then. I plan my meals on this site, but it’s also easy to switch meals around once they are on the calendar. Shopping is made easier by using the shopping portion. My husband always knows what he can help me with on a day because he just looks at the calendar and there is our day (he is retired, I am not). I can make notes on recipes, adjust ingredients, link to the site where I saved the recipe from for more information. All and all, Plan to Eat is a win-win and worth the cost for sure!Show lessDbarnes306
My favorite subscription
I had been looking for a free meal planning/grocery list tool since the service I had been using shut down. So when I found Plan To Eat I signed up for the free trial. PTE has been a great investment in saving on groceries and lowering stress when I get home from work. Both of us can see what’s planned, add to and see the grocery list, and search for recipes.
It could take time to add all your recipes if you have them in paper cookbooks but I tend to find that if you search, most recipes are available on the internet somewhere. So all but 3-4 of my recipes, I used their receipt clipper to get them from a website. I love being able to click the link and go see the comments on how people had fiddled with the recipes, as well.
Every year I renew during the Black Friday sale, but I think it’s worth full price. And now with the app, it’s perfect.Show lessredqt2
The BEST meal planning app!!
I have used Plan To Eat for years, in spite of it not having a mobile app, because the functionality is just that good. Now that the app is available, mobile accessibility is top notch. It’s so easy to add recipes from websites even on my phone, to reschedule meals, to double check ingredients while I’m shopping, and access recipes while cooking. The app is smooth and intuitive. The pantry function means literally every ingredient I possess is accessible from my phone. As someone who cooks most of our meals myself, and who needs serious help managing all the menus and lists, nothing comes close to touching PTE’s comprehensive usefulness. I always recommend PTE to friends. To save on the subscription price, take advantage of the annual Black Friday deal—though I would pay full price without hesitation.Show lessbgbc17
I love Plan To Eat!
Everyone in the family has access to add to the grocery list when they run out of something. Anyone in the family can add a recipe to the queue, so we have ideas of what to plan for the next week. It’s easy to drag recipes from the queue to the weekly planner when using the website. I mostly use the app at the grocery store, to mark what I have picked up. I encourage friends and family to use Plan To Eat, so we could easily use each other’s recipes. I can access my recipes and grocery list from anywhere I have WiFi or data internet access. I have different lists for different stores, and I have my lists organized by category. There are features it has that I don’t use, but should be using, such as storing meals I have frozen, to add to the planner when needed. There is so much Plan to Eat can do for you! Plus, every year around Thanksgiving, they have a half off sale!Show lessBlondiemom01
Life-changing!
I know that seems overly-dramatic, but as a disorganized hoarder with fears of running out, I am LOVING how using this app calms my food-fear and reduces over-spending and waste.
I signed up for a trial months ago, but didn’t use it until I started a raw detox diet 3 weeks ago and realized it was time to enter the recipes into PlanToEat so I could more easily continue using them more easily after the program is over. (I was motivated by a 2 1/2 page grocery list that had apples listed in 3 locations, one amongst canned items, another with spices, a third with cuckes and zuchs! I strongly suspected PlanToEat would do a better job of grouping “likes” together, and it surely does! —tho I need to enter the category first, as in “apples, green” and “apples” instead of “green apples” for it to be most effective, as the produce is grouped alphabetically when the shopping list is generated.
After I signed up, I spent a few hours manually entering the first week’s recipes and menu, thus learning some of the software nuances at the same time.
I have more to learn about using this powerhouse, but I’m already thrilled!Show lessSBR613
Amazing app - has simplified my life!
I love this app! I’m always telling people they should use it. It’s been a game changer in my house. It’s so easy to import recipes from the web, to save them, and to tag them if that’s important to you (we have lots of allergies, so every recipe gets tagged to help us keep track of what’s safe and for whom). We also enter family or cookbook recipes - at least the ingredients - and make a not of what page the directions can be found and in which cookbook. That way all the ingredients are included in the shopping list. LOVE the shopping list feature. It’s so easy to mark off what you already have, and it’s great to be able to create different lists for different stores (e.g., for what we buy at Costco vs the grocery store). We use this app weekly - we make a meal plan over the weekend, then there’s no more of the painful “what do you want for dinner” conversation. Truly simplifies meal planning and grocery shopping. Seriously, try this app. It’s amazing!Show lessMushyV
Purchased Before Trial Ended
I have been playing with recipe apps on and off for several years but not one has become part of my daily activities. PTE helps me to “shop” the internet for recipes, plan when I’ll prepare them, and then hit the store (or fish in the cabinet) for PRECISELY the amount of ingredients to make each recipe. This is important to me since I’m cooking for one.
The grocery list continues to blow my mind, offering organization and customization that allow me to be efficient when I’m in the store. The emails that share features have been so helpful that I usually end up implementing the feature, right away. I really could go on, but I won’t. If you download and try this, you have nothing to lose except space on your device (and you can always get that back).
I don’t think it gets much better than Plan To Eat.Show lessEbonySunshine
Worth it even though I only use it on a desktop computer.
I have been a member 4 or 5 years. It is the only Black Friday sale I do, as the membership is 50% off then. Even when I don’t use it daily, I find it is still worth it. It’s like any other tool, I don’t use my wheelbarrow, or my snow boots daily, but I am sure glad I have them when I need them. I need this tool when my life gets overwhelming, I can anchor back in regular nutritious meals. I also use it to plan out things that are aging in my pantry. I use the meal planning as I don’t have a smart phone with data plan, so the feature of taking the shopping list with me to the store is not as useful, though I do print out the shopping list occasionally. In spite of using only a portion of the program, the program still has value. When I get tired off my own gluten free recipes, I can connect to others who have already tagged recipes as gluten free. This program really made my switch to gluten free so much easier. The other aspect of this program is it is stable, the people that created it continue to add features without losing the basic functioning of it like what happens to some programs. This program might be the one thing that convinces me to get a cell phone to fully use the shopping list feature.Show lessEve@CC
Worth every Penny!
I have looked for a program like this for years. I can now do my meal plan and run out the door with a shopping list in 15 minutes if I can make quick decisions.
The interface via app and online is awesome. Just click and drag your recipe to the calendar and your shopping list is made.
You can also have a staples list for particular stores which is so handy (I just wish when you checked it off it didn’t delete it off the list- but I get around that by printing it).
Highly highly recommend- I don’t have problems of it crashing like other grocery apps have and I love that I can easily save my recipes. The features are too many to list in the review (custom tagging of recipes, saves list of what’s in freezer, edit your recipe ingredients from
A recipe you had imported)- check it out yourself, you’ll end up saving tons of $!Show lessEl Rey 214
I love this App
Probably my favorite App and I have page after page of them! I love how PTE has thought of everything. I am obsessed with Pinterest as well as eating (healthy) and organizing! I find recipes on Pinterest add them to PTE which is incredibly easy. I use the tag button because we mostly follow a Keto lifestyle. From there I can then view all my choices. I look at my calendar for what my family has coming up for the week and add them accordingly to the PTE calendar. For example on busy week nights I add quick recipes or even add my own like salads. I can adjust the recipes amounts or delete or change ingredients like buns...I have a larger family so this also allows me to edit the serving size. I also love when I am looking at my shopping list that is on my phone and not on an old scrap of paper I left at home that each recipe has a letter and next to every ingredient is a small letter showing which recipe that ingredient is for. This App has helped me stay organized; we are eating healthy while I spend less money making extra trips to the store and I don’t feel that dread of “ what’s for dinner “Show lessMomx4&more
