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

  1. Heather says

    Current method is inconsistent. Haven’t quite found what works for me yet.

  6. Tiffany S says

    I do a quick visual of what I have in the fridge, freezer and pantry. Then I peruse my recipes and plan most of our dinners for the week. I don’t usually plan breakfast or lunch because breakfast is just cereal a majority of the time and lunch is often leftovers.

  7. Jana says

    I love cooking, it’s my way to relax and do something fun. I just make what sounds delicious to me at the moment. I might plan out some meals for a couple days at a time, but usually I just through something together.

  9. A C Stewart says

    Menu planning is not something I enjoy, I do however, enjoy having menus planned. It is so worth it. I subscribe via e-mail.

  12. Dawn says

    Unfortunately, my current meal planning strategy is to look in the cupboards and fridge at dinner time and think of something! I’ve been meaning to do a meal planning system and have never gotten around to it yet.

  15. kama says

    Around 5:00, I start thinking about what I’m going to make for dinner. Then I look in the freezer and see if my thoughts match what we actually have. It ususally doesn’t! So around 5:30 I come up with something… 🙂

  16. debra says

    Whenever I give my self a pat on the back for being organzied I simply have to look at my menu planning to bring me back to realtiy. Currently my menu planning consists of me sitting down on Monday morning and trying to come up with simple, good and cost efficient meals and then making my list and going to the store. I love to cook but the daily meal planning has taken away the joy!

  18. Cara says

    Currently, I have an Excel document with all of our menu options. Each week I plan the next weeks meals based on what I have in the cupboards and fridge that needs to be eaten. It works well, but I love the idea of Plan To Eat’s easy accessibility from any computer which I can’t do with my current system.

  23. Krista E. says

    My current method is by the seat of my pants method mixed with a thinking about the week on Sunday and shopping for the ideas for a few meals at a time.

  24. Michelle says

    My meal planning consists of what I’m in the mood for that evening.

  28. Betty Barnhart Lockhart says

    my current meal planning is one week at a time.this looks like a great service

  30. Leone says

    Um, meal planning is rather hit and miss around here. Sometimes I plan a whole week’s worth of meals but many many times it’s “let’s see what I have in the freezer”.

  34. Amanda Doherty says

    Our meal planning is more of a menu roullette….we have about 7 dishes we make regularly and just grab one of them. It is a mess.

  38. Jamie C. says

    My meal planning is kind of determined by my hubby’s schedule. Being a med student, sometimes he’s home lots, and sometimes he’s not. So, when he is, we make sure to do a weekly plan for dinner meals. When he’s not, it’s more of a “pull whatever out of the cupboard/fridge” type of plan!

  40. Tara says

    While I try to plan ahead, it is hard. Have tried other plans that didn’t work.

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