Budget Meal Planner

Start saving money today with budget-friendly meal plans and recipes.

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Start saving money today with budget-friendly meal plans and recipes.

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Start saving money today with budget-friendly meal plans and recipes.

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Maker

I want to open this discussion with a simple question: How much do you spend on food each day? $20? $15? You couldn't possibly be spending less than $10... nah, that's not possible. Or is it? Hi, Product Hunters! 🐱I'm Dianna, the creator of Budget Meal Planner. When I started BMP, I simply was sharing my lifestyle of how I try to follow a food budget of only $5 a day. Now, I help others ditch their bad eating habits while also being able to save money. This project initially began as a simple newsletter back in April. Every Friday, I sent out a new meal plan based around different themes. These themes are different cuisines and vegetables, such as Thai or Potatoes. You're probably thinking, "I don't have time to cook every day" and I'm right there with you. I create these meal plans realistically, providing easy steps to make affordable meals in batches for the week. After two months of providing this content, the feedback I received was immense. My mailing list reached over 1,000 subscribers and a demand grew to have access to previous meal plans. This is where Budget Meal Planner comes in. In addition to my newsletter, I've created a platform to share everything. Past meal plans from my newsletter, calculated recipes, and general advice to help lower the cost of food. And here's the cherry on top... there's vegetarian alternatives and metric measurements. 🎉 I believe that adapting better eating habits doesn't have to be expensive, and I am here to prove that. I want everyone who visits Budget Meal Planner to leave feeling inspired and motivated to take control of their eating habits and finances. ----- Update: I added an article above that spotlights the reality of the world we live in. It mentions how 43% of Americans cannot afford food and rent. And to quote, "These are not the people you think of when you think poor: they are average everyday Americans." $5 a day is a reality for many people, and if you have trouble wrapping your head around that idea... please take a moment to appreciate where you are in life. I've actually had someone print and personally distribute the meal plans to local YMCAs to help low-income families and that's been the highest success of this project for me.

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6yr ago

ClearList

@diannamallen Congrats for launching! I’ve been following your process on Twitter and I’m sooo happy for you 🎉🎉

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6yr ago

Prototypr

@diannamallen

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6yr ago

Founder Prayers

Maker

@satwaya I'm so happy that you've been around to watch it grow! Thank you, Josh :D

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6yr ago

Founder Prayers

Maker

@graeme_fulton LOL I love this!

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6yr ago

Customer Engagement OS

@diannamallen !

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6yr ago

StartKit.AI

Fantastic product providing real value. Congrats on your launch Dianna! I can't wait to see this grow 😃

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6yr ago

Founder Prayers

Maker

@dinkydani21 Thank you, Danielle! Looking forward to its progress also. It's a super fun project to work on.

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6yr ago

“Maybe one day we’ll be seen on” . Seems pretty sleezy to me. You aren’t associated with them, you shouldn’t use their logos. Good concept though.

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6yr ago

Founder Prayers

Maker

@ryankucey I'm happy to reply back that this section has been replaced with "As Featured On LifeHacker" 🥳

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6yr ago

Podcast Stuff Notebook

Congrats on the Launch @diannamallen. Loved seeing this grow from idea to release 👏 (#11 is still my fav)

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6yr ago

Founder Prayers

Maker

@pradipcloud I'm thankful for you being a part of this journey!

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6yr ago

I hope it has a preamble that discusses animal welfare and encourages people towards the vegetarian options. Cheap meat, cheap milk, and cheap eggs are definitively a source of great misery. As a vegetarian who buys organic milk and eggs and, often, cheese, I'm within my food budget of $2400/year Canadian, having spent $1221 so far (beginning of July). I don't coupon clip or budget-shop (but I do get restaurant-supply sizes for spaghetti sauce, canned tomatoes, pasta, dried romano beans…). I eat out maybe once a week, meaning the relative low cost of my groceries isn't offset by going to restaurants. I never waste food. Work with farmers or poor people, and you learn not to do that.

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6yr ago

B-Side

Beautiful website, congrats on the launch 💪 Some suggestions: - You could add some images on "Budget Meal Planner", the wall of text is a bit scary. - The text is hard to read, I don't know it is because of the color or the font itself. - it would be awesome if you include some nutritional information Subscribed!

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6yr ago

Founder Prayers

Maker

@gugpn Thank you, Gustavo. I agree, the design needs a little bit of an overhaul here and there. Nutritional info is also a good suggestion.

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6yr ago

Lovely idea Dianna, saving for a mortgage the last the 6 months so this plan would have been very handy indeed. Not only for broke students! Best of luck with it!

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6yr ago

Founder Prayers

Maker

@phillip_martin Exactly! I find it useful for those in low-income situations, or simply want to put money towards better things. That's how I started it to begin with, I like to put my money towards travel rather than just every day food.

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