Family

Menu Planning Tool

Occasionally, what I do for a living improves my real life. In this case, meal planning. I am a meal planner. I do most of the weekend cooking and I usually wing it. But during the week, the cooking is shared among my husband, nanny and (on a rare occasion) me. I plan a menu, do the (online) grocery shopping and hang the menu and recipes on the fridge.

The other day I met with a company called Spring Pad, springpadit.com. It is a sort of personal del.icio.us. It will easily aggregate recipes from all over the place into a single spot. It will organize a shopping list from them – this part is not great yet, but they are working on it. They have a whole collection of other ‘pads, too.

The current beta version has many imperfections - but the basic utility it provides is a whole lot better than my old, every changing method.

© 2009 Work Life Balance.