
Our New Menu Planning App
Hi, Polly and Rachel here! 👋
After helping millions of families through Thriving Home and our two popular cookbooks, we’ve now built the app we always wished existed.
It makes meal planning simpler, faster, healthier, and honestly…a whole lot less stressful.
The Thriving Meals app brings together our trusted, family-friendly recipes with customizable meal planning tools.
Now, you can plan a full week of dinners, prep ahead when it helps, and shop in minutes instead of hours.
Give it a try now for free. We have two options for you…
Monthly Subscription
$9.99/mo
- Includes 7 day free trial.
- Upgrade to annual anytime to save.
- Cancel anytime.
Annual Subscription
$99.99/year
- Includes 7 day free trial.
- Best value–2 free months!
- Cancel anytime.
What Users Are Saying
“I love the new app! Such a perfect combination of Thriving Home recipes and helpful resources, with the ability to customize what works for my family + schedule.”
– Kelli J. from The Blooming Carrot
“This app seamlessly integrates with the way I plan meals and feed my family. It literally takes every step of the process and makes it easier.”
– Corrine C.
“This app took the weight of decision overload off of my shoulders and helped me think outside my normal box of recipes.”
– Casey P.
How It Works
Plan
Customize Our Weekly Menu Plan With What YOU Like
New plans drop every Thursday. Drag-and-drop meals, add notes, adjust serving sizes to your needs in minutes.
Shop
Auto-Generate Your Grocery List
The app does all the math for you. Add or delete items, if needed.
Use your shopping list from your phone, print it off, or send it straight to Instacart for delivery!
Cook
Use Our Ad-Free Recipes
Use our 450+ ad-free, simple recipes to then cook from. No info overload!
Watch Thriving Meals in Action!
Extra Features You’ll Love






More Testimonials
“This app was very easy to use for a mom of 3 littles. I loved that I could swipe on my phone while making dinner and make our plan on the go.”
– Tricia M.
“I’m already a longtime Thriving Home fan, but the customizable meal planning and auto-generated grocery lists have made my usual Saturday morning meal planning significantly shorter and easier.”
– Kate B.
Quick Review of App Features:
- Customizable meal plans: Move, swap, delete, or adjust any recipe. Leave notes for yourself (“Take Out Night”, etc).
- Auto-generated, editable grocery lists: Printable options and integration with Instacart (which connects to your local stores).
- Recipe flexibility: Save favorites, filter by ingredient, cook time, diet, and more, plus adjust serving size. 450+ recipes and we’ll add new ones each month.
- Add in your own recipes: Have a favorite recipe from your mom? Add it to your recipe index!
- Ease of use: Ad-free interface and intuitive navigation that you can use on any device.
- Prep Ahead section: Includes resources to stock your freezer and feel prepared. Includes a FREE 1-Hour Freezer Prep Session each month, freezer meal labels, monthly menu plans, and more to come.
And… a whole lot less decision fatigue!
FAQs
Every customizable menu plan includes: 7 dinner ideas, including main and side dish ideas and prep notes.
Thriving Meals is built for real families with real schedules. In addition to the customizable menu plans and autogenerated shopping lists, we offer 450+ ad-free recipes, weekly prep notes, and a useful Prep Ahead section that will give you a jump on meal prep for the month.
Plus, you can add in your OWN recipes or create/save menu plans from scratch.
Yes, all of our recipes and plans are designed with families in mind. But, you can adjust the serving size for each recipe plus swap out whatever you don’t like.
Yes, full nutrition is on every recipe.
In addition, you can use our filter function to search for low carb, low calorie, high protein, etc.
You can also search for recipes such as dairy free, gluten free, and vegetarian.
Yes, the app allows for you to manually add in your own recipes.
When you sign up for either the monthly subscription or annual subscription (2 months free!), you’ll get a free 7 day trial period.
This is your chance to play around with the app for free to see if it’s right for you. While Thriving Meals is pretty intuitive, we’ll send you a few emails during that week to show you all the different features. So, rest assured we’ll hold your hand. 🙂
If the app isn’t right for you, cancel anytime in your profile under “Subscription” before the trial is done.
At the end of those 7 days, if you don’t cancel, you’ll be charged for the subscription plan you selected.
Meet Rachel and Polly
Hi again! We’re Rachel & Polly, founders of Thriving Home and authors of two popular cookbooks.
Just wanted to share why we created this app and why we think it’s worth trying…
Our free weekly menu plans are a reader favorite, but so many of you asked to customize them and get grocery lists that we built this solution!
With the Thriving Meals app, you can customize our meals plans, instantly generate a shopping list, and never wonder what’s for dinner again.
It truly takes the brainwork out of solving what’s for dinner, saving you hours of time each week.
We hope you’ll give it a try! There’s nothing to lose with a 7-day free trial.
Monthly Subscription
$9.99/mo
- Includes 7 day free trial.
- Upgrade to annual anytime to save.
- Cancel anytime.
Annual Subscription
$99.99/year
- Includes 7 day free trial.
- Best value–2 free months!
- Cancel anytime.