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. Stacey says

    Um, yeah….my “planning” consists of asking my girls “so…what are we going to want for dinner” and their reponse “I don’t know, what do we have?”

  3. Sarah M says

    My current method looks like me standing @ the fridge, freezer, or pantry, and asking my seven-year-old what he wants for dinner. He routinely names a restaurant.

  7. Valerie says

    I have no real meal planning, not that I haven’t tried. Just seems like I can’t get organized, I hate taking the time to look for new recipes, it’s just one thing I have never gotten very good at.

  13. Janelle says

    My meal planning is hit or miss these days – I could use more structure!

  14. Sandy says

    meal planning = a few (on sale) frozen pizzas in the freezer & leftovers from whatever (if anything) was prepared over the weekend. We are two working adults with no kids…..but really I could do better. I loved Main Dish Kitchen when they were in GR. We actually ate well and healthy when we used them.

  17. sophia foley says

    I do a weekly meal plan and grocery list, but I always feel like I’m rushing to make it and its never really thought thru…what a great site! this was the first time i’d heard of it 🙂

  18. Kelly Sipan says

    I just signed up for the 30 day trial… I am excited to check it out!

  19. Kelly Sipan says

    That is something I am trying to figure out right now!

    Currently, sometimes we don’t plan at all – just make whatever we can with what’s available. Sometimes I plan it out a week ahead of time.

    Right now, though, I have cookbooks and recipe cards all over living room as I try to figure out the best way to plan healthy, simple, economical (aren’t those always the big 3?) meals for us!

  22. Sherri says

    My meal planning is non excistant…LOL! When I go to the grocery store, I quickly think of what is going on for the week and then buy for the days that we need dinners. This would be a HUGE help in the grocery area of my organization goal!!

  23. Heather R. says

    I meal plan by shopping during the week for sale items (make sure to buy meat veggies and sides) then on Sunday I sit down and meal plan based on what we have in the house for the week. It works well for us!!

  24. Heather says

    I used to meal plan, but the got out of the habit. I really want to get started again, just have to figure out a plan.

  27. Fiona says

    I plan to eat in the morning before i head out to work. I am back in early and pass the shops for what I need. I make my list up on the way out in the morning, and the meat, fish or chicken is already defrosting before i leave in the morning!

  31. Melissa says

    I don’t meal plan yet, at least in any organized manner. I would really like to though. I’ve looked at this site. It looks very helpful!

  32. Tamara Phillips says

    I have such good intentions with meal planning. I have lists of meals that would work for my family and some weeks go really smoothly. I’d love to try this! Thanks!

  34. Lucy says

    My meal planning now is usually a phone call on my way home at 5:30pm to see what we plan on making and whether I need to pick anything up for it. Total chaos usually.

  37. Bekah says

    My meal planning leaves much to be desired. I plan out meals when I make my grocery list, but I don’t plan when I will make each meal…which means there are a lot of meals out on short notice and a lot of last minute decision making.

  40. Juliet says

    My current meal planning is what I like to call the 5 o’clock shuffle. That’s when I shuffle around the kitchen and try to figure out what is for dinner!!! Would LOVE to try this service!

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