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#97: Adoption, Meal Planning, and Big Family Cooking with Heather Bell
Heather Bell of @JusttheBells10 is a mother of eight and is a viral cooking and lifestyle influencer. She is the debut author of Mama Bell’s Big Family Cooking: 100+ Big-Batch Homestyle Recipes Your Family Is Gonna Love! Today, we talk about how her large family came together through adoption and how she managed a house full of growing kids! Heather talks about the joy and connection that food brings to her family and how that inspired her recent cookbook.
#98: Improve Your Home Cooking with These Tips and Tricks
Join Roni and Riley as we dive into the topic of home-cooked food and share our favorite cooking tips and tricks. In this episode, we explore our personal journeys to becoming home cooks, including the lessons we’ve learned along the way and the people and resources that have inspired us. Whether you’re a newbie in the kitchen or looking for fresh ideas to elevate your cooking, this conversation is packed with insights to help you level up your home-cooked recipes and feel more confident in the kitchen!
Recent Articles from the Blog
This year, we’re encouraging you to cook more homemade meals and eat out less because we believe homecooked wins every time! There are so many benefits to eating at home from eating healthier to getting more time with family to improving your cooking skills and saving money. Check out this month’s blog posts with home-cooking tips and inspiration!
Healthy Packaged Foods That Make Dinner Easier
Cooking at home doesn’t have to mean starting from scratch with everything you make. There are a lot of packaged, prepped ingredients that make it speedier to get meals ready.
Saving Money in 2025: More Home Cooked Meals!
Eating at restaurants adds up quickly no matter the size of your household. You can save hundreds of dollars, maybe thousands, over the entire year by cooking more meals at home.
2025 Resolution: More Family Time, One Home-Cooked Meal at a Time
Eating at home is about so much more than the food – it’s about the connections and memories we create along the way.
2025: Make Home Cooking Your Most Rewarding Resolution
Cooking at home isn’t a punishment for not being able to eat out, but a privilege and a rewarding experience. Even for those who can afford frequent dining out, eating at home is enjoyable and rewarding.
Extras
- Our friend, Katie Kimball, is hosting a free 5-day Picky Eating Challenge! Five easy action steps. No more food power struggles. Join here.
January’s most popular recipe imports:
Program Updates
The development team is working hard to make updates, squash bugs, and add new features to both the desktop and mobile app versions of Plan to Eat!
App:
This month, we released version 3.4.6:
- We improved the loading experience for slow recipe imports.
- We updated the Print Recipe option to use the scaled serving size for recipes on your planner.
- We patched the styling on the Terms + Conditions modal.
- We added a print meal plan option to the planner settings.
Desktop:
- We added the ability to import recipes from text in any format.
- We fixed the select drop-down color in dark mode on Windows.
- We updated the meal planner print preview so it more accurately matches the print output and removed leftovers from the list of printed recipes.
- We added the ability to print your shopping list with the Grouped by Store option disabled.
- We updated the date picker on the meal planner so it does not hide before you can pick a month or year.
- We updated the Print Meal Plan page so it works on smaller screens.
- We updated some of the button colors so they match our mobile app.
Highlighted Reviews
“I love this app. It’s great to store all the online recipes plus you can add some of your own or copy from cookbooks. I also like the shopping list feature that allows you to send your shopping list to an online store pickup.”
“I love how easy it is to collect and use recipes with this app, then planning is a breeze with the calendar and the grocery list. It is the best. I’ve been using this app for a few years now and it has become a treasure that I would not want to lose.”
