Andrea Dekker

Birthday Giveaway #23: Plan to Eat Membership {3 winners}

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Welcome to my Huge Birthday Giveaway Celebration!!

Instead of receiving gifts this year, I’ve decided to give YOU an opportunity to win a bunch of awesome products I currently use and love.  I’ve partnered with 26 amazing companies to offer 26 different giveaways for my 26th birthday. There will be multiple giveaways every day from June 13-18 — so make sure you come back!

You will be able to find all 26 Birthday Week Giveaways here — just keep scrolling down to view them all.

Giveaway #23: Plan to Eat – 3 Full Year Meal Planning Subscriptions

I am a huge advocate for meal planning – not only to help stretch our small grocery budget, but also to simplify and organize our weeknight routine {and honestly, would doesn’t need to stretch their budget or simplify weekday meals?}

If you are like me, then you’ll LOVE Plan to Eat’s simple, electronic, and really convenient online meal-planning services — that you can accomplish in 3 quick steps.

#1. Import, Organize, and Share your Recipes.

Not only can you type in all your favorite recipes and access them from any computer with internet access, you can also search and IMPORT recipes from your favorite blogs or cooking websites to make meal planning that much easier!

#2 Create your monthly meal plan.

Quickly and easily drag and drop recipes from your Recipe Book to create your monthly meal plan. You can even add additional ingredients, make notes, change the number of servings, and then print and export your meal plan to other calendar programs to sync your meal plan with your schedule.

#3 Create customized grocery lists based on your meal plan and pantry staples

The Shopping List is where all your hard work pays off as it automatically combines and categorizes ingredients from the recipes that are on your meal plan.

That’s it.

If you’re not already using Plan to Eat’s meal planning services, then you’ll be happy to know that they are giving THREE full-year memberships away for my birthday giveaway!

Enter to Win!

Simply answer the question below by leaving a comment on this post. You can even gain bonus entries for doing each additional item listed below (just make sure that you leave a comment for each one).

REQUIRED ENTRY:

  • Leave a comment — What does your current method of meal planning look like?

BONUS ENTRIES:

  • Subscribe to Simple Organized Living via email or RSS
  • Sign up for Plan to Eat’s free 30-day trial — or tell me if you already use their services.

Just a reminder that any comments left on Facebook or Twitter will not count for my birthday giveaways, and you must provide a valid email address to be considered.

All giveaways during my birthday giveaway week will close on Monday, June 20, 2011 at 10:00 EST. The winners will be selected at random and announced via a full blog post on Tuesday, June 21. I will also notify all winners via email.

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Comments

  2. Catherine says

    Meal planning? It’s basically me running around in a panic an hour before dinner should be on the table. It’s pretty sad.

  5. Kathy T says

    I try to plan meals for the week; am starting to look in to ‘freezer cooking’.

  6. Stacey says

    I was using a combination of Evernote and Ziplist. I am currently using the 30-day trial of Plan to Eat (please give me the bonus entry) and am liking the service (other than having to hand enter a lot of recipes). I would love to win the year membership. (Fingers crossed).

  10. Becky says

    My current meal planning includes panicking when dinnertime rolls around. I find myself ordering pizza and picking up fast food way too often. I also seem to make store runs at least 4-5 times a week. Ridiculous!

  11. Nicole Church says

    My current method of meal planning is to shop the weekly sales on my shopping weeks and use up what I have on hand on my off shopping weeks. Unfortunately, I end up picking up things here and there on the ‘off’ weeks which takes time. Hence, I currently do not have a handle on things. This looks like it would be a great tool for me as I juggle freelance design work, being a mom, wife, currently pregnant, and moving in two weeks! Thanks for sharing this great giveaway, Andrea:)

  13. Melissa says

    My meal planning goes week to week (when we have time) I would love to be more organized about it so we can eat at home more and not be so rushed.

  14. Pam says

    I pretty much plan my meals around what’s on sale and usingthe 1/4 cow in my freezer.

  17. Emily K. says

    My current plan looks like a yellow tablet that is constantly getting lost around my house! I could use this tool!

  19. Tanya says

    My meal planning is kinda hit or miss! Some weeks I plan out the entire weeks dinner meals and grocery shop accordingly. Other weeks I get hung up on deciding what meals to have and never actually get to the store. Then I scramble to throw something together from what’s already in the house.

    I follow you on Facebook and subscribe via email.

  22. Jessica Tankersley says

    We have just gotten in to meal planning (thanks to your blog, and others like it!), but right now it is a little tricky. I am a vegetarian and the husband is a meat lover, so we end up having a lot of the same meals!

    This would be a fun way to get more creative!

  26. Lara says

    My meal planning involves me deciding that there is no food in the house. I then stand in the kitchen and think about what little I do have left, and what I feel like eating that week. I write some things on a list and head off to the store. Not the greatest way to plan, but it works for now!

  29. Julia says

    My current meal planning method is check what’s in the fridge and figure out what to cook. I also subscribe to you via Rss!

  31. Laura says

    My current method of meal planning is to scratch my head at 4:00 and wonder what’s for dinner. I’m on something of a little strike, because I’m so frustrated trying to feed my super picky husband and two boys. I would love to get back into meal planning though. I used to do it weekly.

  32. Vicki says

    I try to buy the specials and eat what is on sale. I try to plan ahead. But am not always successful. I was intrigued by this site.

  34. Erica says

    I try to sit down and plan out a week’s worth of meals at a time. That is often easier said than done. We are trying very hard to get pregnant and I REALLY want my habits/routines established before a munchkin comes along.

  36. Debbie A says

    My meal planning is best described as “hit and miss”. I NEED this! Following them and watching the tutorials….

  37. Danielle says

    I follow on Facebook! I absolutely see the value in meal planning but have yet to get an effective system in place. I could certainly use help!

  38. Tricia Bosma says

    I currently plan 2 weeks of meals at a time and grocery shop every two weeks. But if there’s something to make this easier online I’m all for it.

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