Dropped $60 on a meal planning app and it backfired hard

I paid for a year subscription to some fancy meal planning app but the recipes were all stuff my kids wouldn't eat, so now I'm stuck eating weird quinoa bowls by myself. Anyone else get burned by a subscription that sounded good but just wasted your money?

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wilson.olivia16d ago

Did you try just ditching the app and doing it old school? I had a similar thing happen with a subscription and what worked for me was just picking 3-4 simple meals my family already liked and making a list from that. No fancy ingredients or weird stuff. I write it on a whiteboard on my fridge every Sunday. Takes maybe 10 minutes and saves way more than $60 a year.

the_alex16d ago

Switched to a similar system myself a few months back. I just rotate through 5 dinners that I know everyone will eat, like tacos, spaghetti, and stir fry. I keep a running list on my phone and add to it whenever I run out of something like rice or canned tomatoes. It cut my grocery bill about 20 bucks a week because I stopped buying random stuff that looked good but never got used.

young.ryan16d ago

The $20 a week savings is actually what got my attention. I used to think meal planning was overkill but seeing that number made me realize how much I was just tossing in random stuff that went bad. Pretty convincing when you add it up over a month.