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Whether you're a time-strapped professional, an empty nester, feeding a houseful, or just making sure you actually eat something day after day, figuring out what’s for dinner is a heavy lift. The Dinner Plan—a podcast (available here on Spotify and Apple Podcasts) and weekly newsletter—is your resource for real-life cooking inspiration, whoever you are.
You’ll find dinner ideas that always hit from seasoned cooks, new cookbook recommendations and excerpts, and the got-no-plan moves that transform whatever’s in your fridge into tonight’s meal.
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Search ArticlesMeal Planning Strategies That Actually Work
The Dinner Plan has never had a one-size-fits-all attitude toward meal planning; the truth is, you’ll need different strategies for figuring out what’s for dinner depending on what’s going on in your life. But a lot of us find ourselves yearning for a little more structure as fall creeps in, and busy schedules mean we need some ways to get ahead on dinner.
The Thai Cookbook You Should Absolutely Buy This Fall
I’ve been looking forward to today’s conversation for actual years now—pretty much ever since all-star author Andrea Nguyen started posting about her collaboration with Pim Techamuanvivit, the chef behind Kin Khao and Nari in San Francisco (and Nahm in Bangkok.) The book is even better than I imagined, and in this week’s episode of The Dinner Plan podcast, Pim shares a bit of the process behind it.
Is Meal Planning Costing You Money?
I talk to cookbook authors every single week, and over the last 121 conversations, I’ve heard a lot of different meal planning advice. Some folks find that the structure is supportive, making it possible to eat good food even during really stressful weeks. Removing decisions from busy days can make a huge difference in how it feels to be in charge of your household’s dinner plans.
Alex MacLaren’s 10-Day Grocery Strategy
Alex MacLaren feeds her kids dinner pretty much as soon as they come home from school. “That’s the time that they’re the hungriest,” she says. While that schedule comes with its own challenges, I think she’s on to something; my own child is much more likely to eat a vegetable before 6 p.m. In today’s podcast conversation, Alex digs into the money-saving strategy that informs her new cookbook, We Use What We Have. She tries to avoid going in the store unless she’s out of milk or fruit for the kids.
Pierce Abernathy’s Peak Summer Dinners
Before we get into the bustle of fall—and the many, many new cookbook conversations coming your way soon—I need to spend one more moment soaking in summer. For me, that means really reveling in tomatoes. That means eating all the corn. That means sharing this conversation with Pierce Abernathy, whose farmers’ market hauls are always glorious.
Caroline Chambers Needs Even Quicker Dinners Now
“I love this concept of family dinner every single night,” Caroline Chambers tells me in this week’s podcast conversation. Honestly, though, she says: “It’s not where we are.” Caroline has four sons, age seven and below: “They don’t sit down. They don’t eat. They don’t want to eat the dinner I make them.” It’s a reminder that even powerhouse bestselling cookbook authors who happen to write the #1 most popular food newsletter on Substack aren’t always having fabulous family dinners.
Omi Hopper Cooked Through the Hardest Year of Her Life to Get Here
This email is packed with recipes and might be too long for your inbox; click here to view online. Omi Hopper was working as a makeup artist when her husband was diagnosed with a degenerative bone disease and laid off from his job. Just before the start of the pandemic, she took a leave of absence to help him through his first of two knee replacement surgeries, and money was tight. “We were trying to figure out, how are we going to get groceries?” she tells me in this week’s podcast episode.
Good Advice: What to Eat When It’s Too Hot to Cook Dinner
During this summer’s early heatwaves, I made pretty much all of my go-to no-cook dinners. I purchased poached shrimp at a seafood shop, dressed it with mayo and Old Bay, and piled it into hot dog buns. I blended a batch of cold cucumber soup. I turned a can of chickpeas and a couple of jars of chutney into a decent chaat. And then I pretty much gave up, wondering if the right move was actually a big bowl of ice cream. Could be! Or maybe I just need more ideas.
Serena Wolf’s Easy Summer Dinner Ideas
Serena Wolf has a way of putting you at ease; of helping you feel like you, too, can get meals on the table effortlessly. She’ll explain that she’s mostly eating clean-out-the-fridge lunches these days, but she’ll casually walk you through a stone fruit salsa that “feels very fresh and summery” and only takes five minutes to make. “I’m just talking like a peach, some jalapeño, cilantro1, red onion, lime juice, salt, and pepper, and that’s it,” she says in this week’s podcast conversation.
Budget-Saving Recipes for First-Time Cooks from Claire Thomson
When Claire Thomson’s eldest daughter, Grace, headed off to university a seven-hour drive away, Claire worried. “I just felt really, really removed from her,” Claire says. “I worried about her doing her washing at the laundromat.