Interactive Monthly Meal Planner - Plan to Eat
PlanToEat.com, a new recipe sharing and meal planning website, has recently launched a full monthly meal planner. The planner makes it easy to drag-and-drop recipes to the calendar and also add events or notes. Once added, you can rearrange the recipes and other items to any day or order in the day. Then the website helps you go shopping by automatically creating a categorized shopping list from your meal plan.
Clint Bounds initially created the website for his own family, but soon realized other families could benefit from it's simple solution to the repetition of meal planning. "We were tired of spending so much money eating out," says Clint Bounds of www.plantoeat.com. "My wife had started to meal plan, but there was so much repetition and time spent finding recipes and creating the shopping list. I was a webmaster at the time and knew there had to be an easier way, but I couldn't find anything online that did what she wanted."
So after many nights and weekends, with much patience from his family, Clint created Plan to Eat. "I didn't want a tool to just find recipes. I wanted a permanent place to store all of the recipes I already liked so I could plan our meals and then let the software create the categorized shopping list," says Clint's wife. "No more fumbling through multiple recipe books, magazines and websites and constantly recreating the shopping list."
For a monthly subscription of $4.95 or $39 a year (after the 30-day free trial), plantoeat.com allows you to import and store unlimited recipes and meal plans. Without leaving the website, you can also find and buy your shopping list items on Amazon.com and Plan to Eat remembers your selections the next time you want to buy those items. You can also share your recipes with your friends. "I love seeing what recipes my friends like and being able to just drag them to my meal plan," says Nici Hinkel in Houston, TX.
"It's been a really fun learning process creating plantoeat.com, and I plan on adding more sharing and social features, and the ability to separate shopping lists by local stores with quick access to local coupons and store information,"
To sign up for a free trial, visit http://www.plantoeat.com
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