What are you cookin'???? - Becky Driscoll

I just have to share this link with you all!  Like most of you I have a crazy schedule between work, family, household management and running to all the events my children are involved in.  I was hoping to post a "What's for Dinner Wednesday" to share recipes with you...I stumbled upon this useful tool....Tasty Planner....truth be told, I have not used it over a course of weeks (this might be one of those "sounds better on paper" ideas) BUT if it works, I am in.  At this time of life, I would do almost anything that keeps me better organized....

Go check out Tasty Planner and become a Tasty Planner chef (it's free)!

This website is an awesome online tool for weekly menu planning! It allows you to search through a great database of recipes, save your favorites into your own personal recipe box, then drag and your recipes into a weekly menu planner.

Best of all, once you have a menu planned for the week, you click on a "create grocery list" button and all the ingredients needed are pulled from each recipe you've chosen for the week are pulled into a grocery shopping list (this is my favorite feature)! You then have the option to check off ingredients you may already have in stock and those are crosed off and sorted at the bottom of your list. Once you're done with that, you print out your list and take it to the store! Fabulous!

And if you have your own favorite family recipes, you can add them into the Tasty Planner database so they can become part of your weekly planning.

Because it's online, I can build my weekly menu at home and then double check or modify things at work. Yesterday I checked the website at work to see what was in the line-up for Tuesday night dinner. I called Oronzo and asked him to get a couple of the ingredients prepped for me so that dinner would be on the table quicker once I got off work.

Seriously, check out the a href="http://www.tastyplanner.com/" target="_blank">Tasty Planner website, you're going to love it! I'm not getting any type of kick-back for this post. I'm doing it of my own accord!