Where My Recipes Actually Live
How many recipes have you saved as screenshots?
I used to do that. A photo of a recipe on my phone, buried between pictures of my dogs — or a post saved on social media, tucked in a collection I never open again. And when I wanted to make it again — gone. Or I found it three weeks later, after I'd already given up and made something else. A low-sodium recipe you can't find is a recipe you'll never make, and I got tired of losing the good ones.
So my recipes live in Plan to Eat now. All of them. My account goes back to 2015 — I was planning my meals there long before there was a Saltless Chef, and I'm not about to move a decade of my kitchen somewhere else. Plan to Eat was out before a lot of these other apps started showing up. It was it. I could plan, I could save, I could grocery shop, I could write my own. It was awesome. It's where I plan my week — I can see the whole week at once, which is how my brain works — and it's where I cook from. When a recipe is good, it stays. When it's a five-star at my house, I know exactly where it is.
And when my kidneys entered the picture, Plan to Eat went from handy to essential. Every recipe I owned had to be rethought — the salt had to come out, the numbers had to be figured by hand, and the swaps had to live somewhere I'd actually see them. That's where my reworked recipes live: my sodium numbers, my swaps, my stars. It's also where my week lives. I plan there because I can see the whole week at once — and on the days my brain won't hold a list, the planner holds it for me.
That's why every recipe on this site has a save link with it. If one of mine earns a place in your kitchen, save it to your own Plan to Eat — your planner, your grocery list, your kitchen. Not a screenshot. A home.
I plan my own meals with Plan to Eat. If you try it through my link, you get 20% off your first year and I earn a small commission.
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