The Plan to Eat Podcast

Join us this week to learn about the craft of making bean-to-bar chocolate with Gila of DAR Chocolate. A Colorado-based chocolate-making company, on a mission to connect artists and art lovers through artisan chocolate. DAR Chocolate started in Gila and Joel's garage in 2016 and quickly became a fully operating small chocolate factory located in the Denver area. Recently the couple has combin...

Join us for an interview with MacKenzie Koppa to talk about thoughtful gift giving followed by an overview of Plan to Eat's 2022 Holiday Gift Guide! We hope you enjoy the Holiday season! Check out our Holiday Gift Guide: https://www.plantoeat.com/blog/2022/11/2022-holiday-gift-guide/ Connect with MacKenzie: Website: https://mackenziekoppa.com/ IG: @mackenziekoppa Podcast: https://mackenziekop...

David is a husband, father, and entrepreneur. He is the founder of BeDadstrong.com , a movement that is calling out dads all over the world to be their best for their families.  He lives in Meridian, Idaho with his wife of 15 years and their 2 kids, Isaac and Faith.  In this episode, we chat with David about how life changes when your family grows and how creating family time at the dinner table c...

Linda Feller is a long-time Plan to Eat fan girl and the party lover behind Sip + Sanity, a food blog focused on recipes for entertaining. Sharing laughs over a good meal has always been a constant, no matter the path life has taken. She launched Sip + Sanity to share her love and passion for cooking and entertaining at home with everyone looking for a reason to celebrate! In this episode, Linda s...

Erin Lowell is the Education Manager for You Need a Budget, a budgeting app and website. She found YNAB in 2006 while looking for a tool to help her pay down her credit card debt and was hooked! She now manages the teaching staff, Live Q&A sessions, and helps train people in the YNAB method.  Our conversation with Erin covers the 4 rules of the YNAB system of budgeting, meal planning, cooking...

Debbie Brosnan is back on the podcast because she is publishing a cookbook! We always love talking to her about food and cooking and this episode is no exception. She tells us about the process of creating a cookbook from recipe edits to self-publishing. We also get a sneak peek into her Fall cooking retreat to Abruzzo, Italy! We hope you enjoy and don't forget to purchase your copy of The Ef...

We interviewed Anna Reid, our long-time blog contributor! Anna is a self-taught baker whose baking experience goes back to her childhood. She started a blog called The Little Blue Mixer and grew her knowledge one recipe at a time. We chat with Anna about her experience as a baker, baking for weddings and events, and she even sneaks in a few baking tips. Enjoy! Find Anna online: Instagram: @thelitt...

We are so excited for Fall! Join us as we talk about our favorite Fall seasonal foods. This episode is jam-packed with recipes and interesting insights into some seasonal produce. Have you heard of a quince? Did you know seasonal eating could help combat allergies? Listen to learn more and find out our stance on pumpkin spice products. Happy Fall! Connect with Orion Aon: https://www.foragecolorado...

We are honored to bring you this interview with Tova Levine, the founder of Tovla Jr. As a busy mom of five fun-loving kids, she's passionate about empowering kids and has found the kitchen to be the perfect place for it.  After seeing the positive effects kitchen skills had on her children,  she knew it was something she wanted to share with the world.  We brought Tova on the podcast to talk...

Join us this week for a review from Riley on The New York Time Cooking: No-Recipe Recipes cookbook! Find out who would enjoy this cookbook, the pitfalls of no-recipe cooking, and see if this book is right for you! Enjoy! Find the No-Recipe Recipes Cookbook here .  Sign up for a free trial + get 20% off your first annual subscription: plantoeat.com/PTEPOD Contact us: podcast@plantoeat.com Connect w...

We're excited to share part two of our customer meal planning tips! In this episode, we talk about batch cooking, meal prep, and planning around what you already have at home. We also share a few miscellaneous tips including a fun way to use your leftovers and best practices for meal-prepping veggies. Enjoy!   Sign up for a free trial + get 20% off your first annual subscription: plantoeat.co...

We asked and you delivered! We recently asked our customers for their best meal planning advice and we received so many good tips! Join us for a two-part series where we share and discuss your meal planning tips! Sign up for a free trial + get 20% off your first annual subscription: plantoeat.com/PTEPOD Contact us: podcast@plantoeat.com Connect with Plan to Eat online: Instagram Facebook Pinterest

Join us for an interview with Jeani Hunt, a Registered Dietitian, and Plan to Eat customer! Jeani Hunt, MS, RD, CD works with women to take control of PCOS, infertility, and endometriosis at VeggieLush Nutrition. She loves working with women and people with uteruses who struggle with symptoms and are looking for an evidence-based approach to treatment. In this episode, we get to know more about Je...

Join us for an interview with Rosemarie Groner, The Busy Budgeter! Rosemarie has been featured on Country Living, Entrepreneur, Forbes, Fox Business, and Rockstar Finance and has taught over 18 million people how to budget and save money (even if they're a total hot mess). She teaches how to get the best results with the least amount of effort and specializes in the toughest cases of chronic...

If you've fallen off the meal planning wagon, we're here to help you get back on! Join us for a conversation full of advice for getting back in the habit of meal planning.  We talk about the benefits of meal planning, why we've fallen out of the habit, and so many tips for making the planning process simpler. Go into Fall with your planning routine in place! Enjoy! Find the recipes...

We had the pleasure of interviewing Orion Aon of Forage Colorado. Orion is an avid outdoorsman with a passion for all things wild food! In 2015, Orion started Forage Colorado where he shares his passion for edible wild plants and mushrooms, writes educational content, and offers private foraging classes. We chatted with Orion about being a self-taught forager, how he became interested in foraging,...

Learn how to "anchor" your meal planning in this episode! We learned so much from Amylee about the different ways to meal plan and what can serve as your anchor. Amylee blogs as The Productive Mama, where she seeks to help moms balance their busy lives, by providing tools and strategies for saving and earning money, parenting, staying organized and mostly by helping provide nourishing fo...

Join us for an interview with food blogger LaKita Anderson of simplylakita.com.  Her food blog shares simple weekly recipes with a modern twist on comfort food. She began blogging as a way to share her family recipes and love of food photography. What began as a creative hobby, developed into a small business and she was able to grow her creative passion into a full-time career. We talked with her...

Learn how and when to use the Menus feature in this quick Feature Friday episode! Read more about the Menus feature here: https://learn.plantoeat.com/help/using-menus-with-the-meal-planner Sign up for a free trial + get 20% off your first annual subscription: plantoeat.com/PTEPOD Contact us: podcast@plantoeat.com Connect with Plan to Eat online: Instagram Facebook Pinterest

Join us for this episode on saving time in the kitchen and tips for meal prepping. Saving time is often about planning ahead, which mean you’re doing your future self a favor! Some of these tips are for super quick and efficient meals with little prep and others will simply help you make meal prepping simpler. We hope you enjoy! Episode Resources: Cook once, eat all week by Fed and Fit Semi-homema...

Join us for an interview with Monica Corrado, also known as The GAPS Chef. Monica is a teaching chef, speaker, author, and consultant who has spent the last 20 years illuminating the connection between real food and vibrant health. Monica has taught people why and how to cook nourishing, traditional food all over the globe. Monica has authored six books so far, her most recent The Complete Cooking...

Join us this week for an in-depth conversation with Nicole Prom about Hashimoto's Disease, an autoimmune disorder, and the Autoimmune Protocol diet.  Nicole has a Masters of Science and Education Specialist Degree in School Psychology. She was a school psychologist for 7 years before becoming a stay-at-home mom. She now has three boys, including identical twins! We talk with Nicole about mana...

Join us for a conversation about organizing your food storage! We went through our own cupboards to clean out and organize the dry goods we keep on hand. We documented our processes and share them with you (and each other) in this episode. We hope you're inspired to do a little cupboard clean out of your own! Find the recipes Riley and Roni talk about in this episode: Beef and Cauliflower Tac...

You asked questions and we got answers! Our first customer Q&A is all about kids eating habits with special guest Katie Kimball! In this Q&A Katie gives us her "toolbox terms" for getting kids to try foods they claim to hate. We learn how your toddler's highchair could be contributing to their eating behavior. She explains the difference between how a child and adult's...

We are so excited to be joined again by Debbie Brosnan of The Effortless Kitchen! We originally talked with Debbie in Episode #9 about her virtual cooking class business. Today we have her back to talk about how she manages to feed and parent three teenagers. Spoiler Alert: it's not easy! We hope this conversation with Debbie gives you tips to try with your older children and some comfort kno...