How Meal Planning Saves You Mental Energy

Wooden barrel with words "Mental Energy" on sticker and tap showing leak.

In 2000, Kathy Sierra and her husband tried to write a best-selling programming book on Java after they lost their jobs due to the dot-com crash. The odds were stacked against them. There were more than 16,000 books on Java to compete with, many of them famous and fantastic. But Kathy had an ace in … Read more

How to Meal Plan the Sane Way

Meal Plan illustration with breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack foods

When you have a recipe formulae library and food inventory, you’re ready to plan out your 3 meals a day plus snacks. I know it seems counter-intuitive. Why work harder by meal planning and food prepping? Why not just wing it in the grocery store? Yes, it is more work to plan. But trust me, it’s less stress … Read more

How the Food Inventory Works And Why You Should Do It

Reasons for skipping a Food Inventory in the meal planning process.

Are you trying to order less take-out meals and cook more at home? Meal planning and meal prep are critical to being successful. But did you know that one of the biggest hurdles to meal planning is not making a food inventory? Learn what a food inventory is and why you should include it in … Read more