Optimal Finance Daily · Sunday, September 13, 2026
Tanya Brown suggests meal planning as a key strategy to reduce food waste and costs when eating healthy. She recommends using online meal planners like emails.com, which offer weekly meal plans, recipes, and grocery lists for a yearly fee.
“The first key to eating on a budget is to meal plan. I found that we were wasting food because we bought it without a plan as to how we were going to eat it.”
“For about $60 a year, you get an email sent to you weekly with 70 meals. I double the recipes so we have lunch and dinner.”
“You also get a shopping list. I'm so rushed I often forget my list. But with the emails app, you can always have your grocery list handy.”