Plan to Eat

A review of the excellent Plan to Eat product and how it’s simplified my food shopping experience

If you’re someone like myself; responsible for the planning of weekly household meals, you’ll most likely agree that list planning and collation of ingredients in order to serve those meals can be extremely stressful and is never easy. Therefore, the majority of us don’t plan ahead. We live busy lives and often we buy when we need.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation claims that our food system is responsible for 24% of greenhouse gas emissions while approximately one-third of edible food parts produced for human consumption is lost or wasted globally. This waste totals 1.3 billion ton per year.

It’s always efficient to plan meals ahead in order to reduce food waste and with stats like those put forward by the UN, now is the best time to start. However, forming a new habit or finding the best suited app to make meal planning easy and part of our weekly routine can be quite difficult.

Meal planning apps

There are many upon many of meal planning apps available on the market ranging from simple web applications to complex iOS apps. I know this as over the course of several months I tested a large portion myself. Some put their eggs in the user interface design basket but are let down by their reduced feature set, while others have a series of strong features but are operationally unintuitive. Others are simply overpriced or…