I got My Meals Planned And Life Got A Lot Easier

What to Cook?

I don’t know about you, but I have the hardest time cooking for myself. The hardest part for me is deciding what I want to eat. By the time I am ready to eat, I am already too hungry. Then I make the mistake of looking at Pinterest and another 45 minutes pass as I drown in the sheer number of recipes.

It may sound like a first world problem, and you would be right. Still, that doesn’t help the significant portion of my paycheck lost when I give up and eat out yet again. I had a problem and I discovered that Mindful Meal had a solution.

Meal Planner Extraordinaire

Everyone who already knew about meal planners will have to excuse my excitement. I didn’t know there was a service that would not only plan out my meals based on my preferences, but it will also create a simple shopping list for the grocery store. My life just got a lot easier and cheaper.

Setting up Mindful Meal

I don’t want to bore you, so I won’t go into too much detail for this Mindful Meal review. Just know that Mindful Meal has settings for serving size, vegan, vegatarian, allergies, cooking time, likes, and dislikes. In under a minute I was able to customize a meal plan that was catered to me. I haven’t used any other meal planners, so I am not sure if they are as quick.

I do know that Mindful Meal is easy. They provided me with a visual list of my meals, and allowing me a way to quickly switch them out. Don’t want that Melon-Ginger Smoothie for breakfast? Switch it out with Cranberry pancakes.

Mindful Meal Grocery List

Once I had my week ready, I pressed the grocery list button. I setup my meal planner for a week so it was a bit of a daunting list. The cool part was it had a separate section of ingredients that I most likely already had.

It did take a long time for me to find all of the ingredients at the store. I normally only buy for a few days so I was a little bit overwhelmed. I also worried that I might not be able to cook as many meals as I had planned. I guess I will learn as I go.

Cooking it up!

The final step was definitely my favorite of the whole process. The recipe I used was easy to follow and I had all of the ingredients already. If you haven’t tried cooking with the ingredients and recipe combined, it is a truly wonderful experience. The closest I can relate it to is using a service like Hello Fresh. (Except Mindful Meal is much much cheaper)

Mindful Meal Review Summary

Having never used a meal planner before, Mindful meal was a fun experience. It makes planning, buying, preparing and cooking a meal so much easier. It is very easy to understand why I would pay $8 a month for this service.

Try Mindful Meal and make dinner fun again.