Wasted $80 on a meal planning app that just added more stress

I spent $80 on a yearly subscription to some fancy meal planning app that promised to save me money on groceries. Instead of helping, it gave me complicated recipes with ingredients I never used again, so I was tossing half my haul each week. Anyone else get burned by a budgeting tool that ended up costing more than it saved?

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thea69223d ago

Did you at least get to cancel before the year was up? I fell for something similar last year, a grocery list app that promised to cut my spending by half. Instead of saving money, I ended up buying overpriced organic stuff for their dumb recipes and throwing out half of it. It felt like more work than just winging it at the store with a basic list. I learned my lesson and now I just use a plain notebook and a calculator. Sorry you got stuck with that too, it's super frustrating when something meant to help just makes things worse.

emma_hart23d ago

Used to think I was just too dumb for these apps, but your story is exactly what happened to me. I was all for fancy planning and meal prep before this, thought it would be the thing to fix my spending. Now I'm back to the same notebook and pen system I had in high school, and somehow it works better. It's humbling to admit the old way was actually fine, but not as humbling as paying for a subscription that just made things worse.