I have been cooking for my family for just over 30 years, and I don’t know about you, but sometimes my brain just gets stuck in a rut and I can’t think of anything to fix for dinner. When I think back to what I cooked over the 30 years, there are only a handful of dishes that I can recall.
If I am in a pinch, I can look back at my post 10 easy meals for busy nights but those can get old real quick!
Meal Planning Resources
When I need some inspiration, or when I just need someone to tell me what to cook, I use one or more of the
resources below:If you are looking for something to help you organize everything pertaining to feeding your family, Plan to Eat service has a lot to offer. It is a paid service, only $4.95 a month (*affiliate link), but it gives you a drag and drop calendar (similar to Google calendar) hundreds of recipes, plus you can up load your own. The greatest thing about it? Plan to Eat then takes your meal plan and creates a shopping list for you!
There is even mobile access! And the awesome thing is they offer a 30 day free trial, so you can try it and see how it works for YOUR family. Click here to get more info and start your trial!
My friend Laura over at I’m an Organizing Junkie has a weekly link-up called, OrgJunkie’s Meal Plan Monday click here to see every Monday’s link-up. There are usually close to 200 readers who link up their meal plans. Many are specific, such as diabetic, gluten-free, natural foods, etc. She also has a great recipes database.
All Recipes – A great resource for a recipe you may have had before, but don’t know what it was specifically called. If you know a few of the ingredients, you can do an ingredient search (upper middle of the screen). There are LOTS of recipes on file here! A free service but quite a few ads!
My Fridge Food– What’s in your fridge? I just recently came across this site that is free, and much less advertisement. You can click what items you have in your fridge and it will give you suggestions of what you could fix for dinner. I have tried it once or twice and it came up with some pretty good ideas!
I just have to tell you about my most recent discovery as a resource for meal ideas! PINTEREST! I have gotten lots of great recipes from there. Just a word of warning: if you are dieting it is an awful form of torture looking at all those goodies!
There is an entire category for Food and Drink. If you would like to see my food boards, follow me on Pinterest. I recently reorganized my food boards!
EDITED: I am a Pinterest junkie and now have a board on Pinterest called Easy Meals for Busy Folks!
Hi, just came over from the Women Living Well blog and am interested in your blog also. Please send me an invitation for Pininterest so I may check it out and follow you. Thanks!
So true! I have a bookcase full of cookbooks that I love looking through, but when it comes time to actually applying those recipes to making dinner, I’m suddenly at a loss.
I am such a visual person, I think that is why I love pinterest so much! I usually head there when I am planning my meals for the week!
I am absolutely addicted to Pinterest!! I have to check it at least once a day…I get twitchy if I don’t…the thought that someone could be pinning my next life saving, time saving, stomach filling master piece and I missed it makes me very very anxious…sorry I must leave now and go stalk your Pinterest boards…
I try to save my Pinteresting for the evening, when I am watching TV with hubby. Doesn’t take a lot of thought to look at pretties and share! See you on Pinterest!
i would love if you could add me to pinerest please
thank you
Ziplist.com is an amazing website for keeping your recipes, building your shopping list and meal planning…. all in one! Check it out.
Another great site is SuperCook.com !! Input what you have in your kitchen (or what you plan to buy at the store) and it will automatically find recipes for you!! It’s my favorite ever!
Lindsay Nixon provides a great service for any veghead moms looking for help in meal planning.
https://www.getmealplans.com/
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