The Plan to Eat Podcast

The Plan to Eat Podcast

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Join Roni, Plan to Eat's resident meal planning expert, for conversations about meal planning, food, and wellness to help you save time in the kitchen, reduce your grocery bill, stress less about food, and delight in dinnertime! Sign up for a free trial at plantoeat.com or contact us at podcast@plantoeat.com.

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#99: Eating Healthy on a Tight Budget with Kimberley Gillan

#99: Eating Healthy on a Tight Budget with Kimberley Gillan

2025-02-12

Kimberley Gillan, food security expert and author of HOW LOW CAN YOU GO?: Nutritious Meals from $50 Per Week, joins the pod for an insightful discussion on eating healthy without breaking the bank. Her book is a game changer for families and individuals looking to make nutritious, budget-friendly meals a reality.

In this episode, we explore the impact of rising food costs on diets and budgets, practical strategies for making sustainable dietary choices on a tight budget, and actionable tips to lower your grocery bill while maintaining nutrition. Kimberley also shares her go-to budget-friendly pantry staples and secrets for saving money on fresh meat and produce.

Packed with valuable advice and real-world tips, this episode is a must-listen for anyone looking to eat well and spend less. Enjoy!

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#98: Improve Your Home Cooking with These Tips and Tricks!

#98: Improve Your Home Cooking with These Tips and Tricks!

2025-01-29

Join Roni and Riley as we dive into the topic of home-cooked food and share our favorite cooking tips and tricks. In this episode, we explore our personal journeys to becoming home cooks, including the lessons we've learned along the way and the people and resources that have inspired us.
Whether you're a newbie in the kitchen or looking for fresh ideas to elevate your cooking, this conversation is packed with insights to help you level up your home-cooked recipes and feel more confident in the kitchen! Enjoy!

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#97: Adoption, Meal Planning, and Big Family Cooking with Heather Bell

#97: Adoption, Meal Planning, and Big Family Cooking with Heather Bell

2025-01-15

Heather Bell of @JusttheBells10 is a mother of eight and is a viral cooking and lifestyle influencer. She and her husband, Luke, hail from Michigan where they provide eggs to local grocery stores and restaurants. They raise Clydesdale horses and beef cows, and they operate a masonry business as well. She is the debut author of Mama Bell's Big Family Cooking: 100+ Big-Batch Homestyle Recipes Your Family Is Gonna Love!
Today, we talk about how her large family came together through adoption and how she managed a house full of growing kids! Heather talks about the joy and connection that food brings to her family and how that inspired her recent cookbook. Enjoy!

Find Heather's Cookbook here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Mama-Bells-Big-Family-Cooking/Heather-Bell/9781507222614
Heather's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justthebells10/

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#96: The Ultimate Positive Change for 2025 - Homecooked Meals!

#96: The Ultimate Positive Change for 2025 - Homecooked Meals!

2024-12-18

What if we told you cooking more meals at home could help you save money, eat healthier, and spend more quality time with your family?
In this episode, Roni and Riley talk about the different reasons why home cooking needs to be your 2025 resolution! Home-cooked meals have this amazing ripple effect on basically all aspects of our lives and we want to encourage you to cook at home more in the new year. This episode will help you stop making excuses and overcome the barriers you might encounter when it comes to making more home-cooked meals. Enjoy!

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#95: Ancestral Eating in a Modern World with Alison Kay

#95: Ancestral Eating in a Modern World with Alison Kay

2024-12-04

Alison Kay is a food writer, teacher, and podcaster. She specializes in bringing the wisdom of ancestral food to modern kitchens in a joyful and practical way so that you can learn without overwhelm and make traditional foods part of your life.
In today's episode, we talk about Alison's journey from veganism to ancestral eating and how changing her diet helped her overcome struggles with fertility. Alison is a wealth of knowledge about traditional foods, ancestral eating, and prioritizing local foods in one's life. This is a great introduction to ancestral eating and traditional foods! Enjoy!

Connect with Alison:
https://ancestralkitchen.com/about/

Listen to Andrea's Interview on the PTE Pod here.

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#94: How to Have a More Meaningful Holiday Meal

#94: How to Have a More Meaningful Holiday Meal

2024-11-20

Join Riley and Roni for a conversation about reducing the craziness around holiday meal planning and prep. We dissect planning, food prep, managing leftovers, and adopting a new mindset to maximize enjoyment! We hope this episode helps you accept the imperfections and get the most fulfillment from your holiday meals this season. Cheers and Enjoy!

The Eisenhower Matrix
Questions for Humans Cards

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#93: Cook at Home to Save Your Finances with Julien and Kiersten of Rich and Regular

#93: Cook at Home to Save Your Finances with Julien and Kiersten of Rich and Regular

2024-11-06

Julien and Kiersten Saunders are authors of Cashing Out: Win the Wealth Game By Walking Away published by Penguin Random House. They are the creative voices behind the blog richandregular.com, hosts/producers of the award-winning video series, Money on the Table, and hosts of the rich & REGULAR podcast which has earned over 3 million downloads in just two years. Their mission is to inspire better conversations about money.
This episode is focused on eating at home and why learning to cook is one of the best financial investments anyone can make! Julien and Kiersten give their advice and suggestions for learning to cook, how to save time in the kitchen, and how to save time and money on your upcoming holiday meals. Enjoy!

Connect with Julien and Kiersten:
IG: https://www.instagram.com/richandregular/
Podcast: https://richandregular.com/listen/
Website: https://richandregular.com/
Book: https://richandregular.com/cashingout/

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#92: A Less is More Approach to Meal Planning with Roni and Riley

#92: A Less is More Approach to Meal Planning with Roni and Riley

2024-10-23

Join Roni and Riley for a conversation about "less is more" when it comes to meal planning. This conversation gives many practical tips for simplifying your meal planning and creating minimalist meal plans! Tune in for some recipe inspiration and practical planning methods. Enjoy!

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#91: Seriously Reducing Food Waste with Jordan Schenck of Flashfood

#91: Seriously Reducing Food Waste with Jordan Schenck of Flashfood

2024-10-09

Jordan Schenck is the President and Chief Operating Officer for Flashfood, an app-based marketplace that connects shoppers with fresh produce, meat, and other groceries at up to 50% off. This interview focuses on why food waste is a complex issue and how Flashfood works to help reduce food waste.

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#90: Why Family Meals Matter with Roni and Riley

#90: Why Family Meals Matter with Roni and Riley

2024-09-25

Riley is back this week to help cover the topic of family meals and why we should be trying to have more meals together with our families. We share a lot of helpful tips and ideas during this conversation so you can feel empowered to have more family meals starting this week!

Here are some of the resources we mentioned:
FMI.org
thefamilydinnerproject.org
Conversation starters
Harvard EdCast Podcast

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#89: Month-Long Meal Planning with Rebecca Zipp

#89: Month-Long Meal Planning with Rebecca Zipp

2024-09-11

Rebecca lives in Colorado with her husband and two kids. Food has been an important part of her life since 2009, when she saw firsthand how it can be used to heal. Since then, she has strived to provide her family with nourishing meals using as many local ingredients as possible. She writes at her website, ahumbleplace.com, where she offers resources for homeschoolers and guides for food and meal planning.
This conversation with Rebecca centers around using Plan to Eat for her month-long meal-planning process! She has used Plan to Eat for 14 years and shares her simple system for planning four weeks of meals at a time.

Find Rebecca on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ahumbleplace/

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Rerun: Elevating Women One Meal At A Time with Carly and Carmen

Rerun: Elevating Women One Meal At A Time with Carly and Carmen

2024-08-28

This is a rerun of Episode 69 with Carly and Carmen of Radiant Knowing!
A Nutritionist and Dietitian duo, Carmen and Carly help women unlock the clarity and confidence they need to nourish their bodies holistically and age-proof their health while creating a simple and sustainable plan for feeding their family. They love to help moms revolutionize their systems to get more organization and structure in their lives. We talk about the freedom of planning and how they have an incremental process for elevating women one meal at a time.
A brand new episode of the Plan to Eat Podcast will be available in two weeks!

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Rerun: Budgeting and Meal Planning. An Interview with Erin Lowell of YNAB.

Rerun: Budgeting and Meal Planning. An Interview with Erin Lowell of YNAB.

2024-08-14

This week's episode is a rerun of Episode 38 with Erin Lowell! Erin Lowell is the Education Manager for You Need a Budget, a budgeting app and website. Our conversation with Erin covers the four rules of the YNAB system of budgeting, meal planning, cooking and meal planning for one, budgeting tips for the grocery store, and tons of practical advice.
I hope you enjoy this episode and I'll be back with a fresh interview in September!

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#88: Food is Community with Andrea of the Ancestral Kitchen Podcast

#88: Food is Community with Andrea of the Ancestral Kitchen Podcast

2024-07-31

Andrea, her husband Gary, and their four children live on their family farm in the Chuckanut Mountains of Western Washington. They enjoy running a small campground and summer event space, raising animals, and a small garden for food production.
Andrea is co-host of the Ancestral Kitchen Podcast which supports families in their pursuit of cooking more traditional meals at home.
In this episode, we discuss food as a tool for human connection and community building. We also talk about Plan to Eat and how Andrea uses the program to simplify her traditional foods kitchen. She has great tips for using the Prep Notes feature and using Plan to Eat to eat seasonally. Enjoy!

Listen to Andrea's interview with Rebecca Zipp here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/83-meal-planning-and-ancestral-food-rhythms-with/id1560950100?i=1000654736572
Follow the Ancestral Kitchen Podcast on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ancestralkitchenpodcast/

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#87: Time Saving Tips for Meal Planning and Chores with Stephanie Royer

#87: Time Saving Tips for Meal Planning and Chores with Stephanie Royer

2024-07-17

Stephanie is the creator of Mommy Standard Time, a blog designed to help families save minutes and savor moments. After going through breast cancer treatment as a young mother of three, she realized that life was too short to be spending so much time on chores! She is always on the lookout for ways to save time on day-to-day tasks, especially meal planning.

This is a great conversation with Stephanie! She has so many wonderful tips and tricks for saving time at home and in the kitchen. We talk about some of the specific methods she uses for doing chores, grocery shopping, and meal planning. She shares her meal planning system and how it helps her extend her time between grocery trips - she usually shops every 14 days!

www.mommystandardtime.com

Instagram: @stephanieroyer.mst
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mommystandardtime8544

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#86: Raising Anti-Diet Kids with Nutrition Coach Diana Rice

#86: Raising Anti-Diet Kids with Nutrition Coach Diana Rice

2024-07-03

Diana Rice is a certified, intuitive eating counselor and a certified parent coach with a mission of helping families enjoy a healthy relationship with food. Her online platform is Anti-Diet Kids where she teaches parents how to bring the concept of intuitive eating and rejecting diet culture into their parenting.
Diana and I talk all about anti-diet culture, what it means to reject diet culture, and how to embrace intuitive eating. She is also a Plan to Eat customer and uses the program minimally and innovatively! We talked a lot about her meal-planning strategy and how she eliminates stress and decision fatigue related to meal planning. Enjoy!

Follow Diana on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anti.diet.kids/

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#85: Meal Planning Tips for Using Leftovers with Riley

#85: Meal Planning Tips for Using Leftovers with Riley

2024-06-19

Riley is back for an episode all about leftovers! Whether you love them or love to hate them, we have so many tips and tricks for repurposing leftovers and finding ways to use up what you have. We offer advice on how to meal plan with leftovers in mind and Riley shares an interesting perspective on why some people dislike leftovers more than others. Enjoy!

Read our blog post about maximizing leftovers too.
Listen to our episode about utilizing the freezer!

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#84: Eco-Friendly Living Made Easy with Pam Mercer of Greenily

#84: Eco-Friendly Living Made Easy with Pam Mercer of Greenily

2024-06-05

Pam Mercer is the founder of Greenily – Your Family Only Greener. Her background is in conservation education and now she helps moms and families adopt simple lifestyle changes to be more eco-friendly.
In our interview, Pam shares helpful tips for updating your household routines and habits with eco-friendly products. She gives some simple swaps you can make in the kitchen and how to be more mindful of what you can recycle and what you can reuse. We also discuss how you can be more eco-friendly with what you buy at the grocery store to help reduce waste. Enjoy!

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#83: Cut Your Grocery Budget in Half with Alli Powell of The Grocery Getting Girl

#83: Cut Your Grocery Budget in Half with Alli Powell of The Grocery Getting Girl

2024-05-22

Alli Powell is the money-saving woman behind The Grocery Getting Girl! Alli and her husband started budgeting seriously in 2018 and she was able to cut her grocery bill in half with some budget-friendly planning.
Alli joined me on the podcast to talk all about grocery budgeting and this episode is chock-full of tips! We cover how she found the time to start preparing food at home with two little kids and full-time jobs, how she price-shops different stores, and how she creates her budget meal plans.
Look no further for answers to all your grocery budgeting questions! Enjoy!

Get Alli's E-book: https://grocerygettinggirl.com/my-shop/ols/products/how-to-save-on-groceries-e-book-by-alli-powell

Connect with Alli:
www.grocerygettinggirl.com

https://www.instagram.com/grocerygettinggirl/

https://www.tiktok.com/@grocerygettinggirl

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#82: Meal Prep and Going Vegan with Maddie of Let's Eat Plants

#82: Meal Prep and Going Vegan with Maddie of Let's Eat Plants

2024-05-08

Maddie has been vegan for 6 years and loves showcasing how to save time & eat healthier thanks to meal prep. Her YouTube videos share vegan recipes, meal prep ideas, and time-saving tips, and she even has a meal prep course for vegan beginners!
In today's episode, I talked with Maddie about her experience going vegan and how she and her husband made that transition. We also got into a ton of meal prep and fresh produce tips! Maddie is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to prepping food - you're going to learn a lot in this episode! Enjoy!

Find Maddie's Granola Recipe: https://youtu.be/iQpHzMzC_LA?si=qk0KK_CVIrwEHka8

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LetsEatPlants
Instagram: @lets.eat.plants
Website: https://bit.ly/LEPmealprepcourse

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