Do you want to eat healthier?

Do you want to reduces the stress over “What’s for Dinner?”

Are you seeking to save food and money?

Your Solution: Flexible Meal Planning System that fits your real life, not influencer fantasy.

This isn’t another session selling you tools, technologies, or pre-fabricated menus. You’ll learn how to think differently about planning meals using free or low-cost strategies and easy tech tools that help you build a system that fits your lifestyle.

Why Dinner Feels So Hard

By 5 PM your brain is done. Decision fatigue is real. The problem isn’t you — it’s the lack of a plan that fits your week.

• Families: juggling practice, homework, hungry kids, and no time
• Couples: tired of takeout and food ruts
• Cooking for one: low motivation, leftovers, wasted groceries

We’ll fix the root cause. You’ll plan first, then prep, so dinners get eaten and food stops going to waste.

This Workshop Is Different

You don’t need another influencer meal plan or subscription kit. You need a flexible, repeatable system that works in your kitchen.

You’ll crawl, walk, and run. This workshop gives you the playbook to simplify your life without buying anything else.

The tools have evolved, but the mission to bring families around the dinner table and reduce our dependency on ultra-processed and fast foods has never changed.”

— Betty Rodriguez-Hakes

What You’ll Learn

• How to create a 3- to 5-day dinner plan that fits your schedule and dietary needs
• Ways to use free AI tools for inspiration, showing lists, recipes and meal prep plans
• Smart shopping strategies
• Meal ideas for mixed diets and picky eaters
• How to build a rotation of healthy favorites

What You’ll Receive

• Printable and editable meal-planning template
• GourmetBetty’s 17-year proven “Think Like a Planner” toolkit
• Live Q&A with practical troubleshooting
• eBook with family recipes: Simplifying: What’s for Dinner?
• 1-Year to GourmetBetty members-only newsletter
• Bonus: free 30-minute 1:1 consult for early sign-ups

How It Works

• Format: live, online, interactive.
• Length: 60 minutes
• You Bring: your schedule, digital notepad of your choice, a photo of your fridge and/or pantry
• Outcome: a complete 3- to 5-day dinner plan AND the process to be consistent.

Prefer in-person? Ask about private groups, lunch-and-learns, and corporate wellness sessions in Cincinnati.

Who It’s For

• Busy professionals and families who want calmer evenings
• Couples who want to eat better and save money
• Solo cooks ready to stop wasting food
• Anyone who wants a system — not another recipe list

Why did I create this workshop?

I have 30+ years of real-world experience balancing family, work, and home cooking. As a wife and mother, I understand the daily challenge of getting meals on the table while juggling busy schedules.

I’ve been teaching cooking classes and sharing my meal plan system for almost 20 years using the key foundations & systems that have worked for me (and my mom and grandmother.)

Then along came generative AI tools promising to make life easier. But let’s be honest, without a plan and key knowledge of how to use them effectively, AI can create more chaos than clarity. You need a clear plan, not endless recipes, meals you’ll never make, and grocery lists full of things you don’t need.

Drawing on more than 30 years of real-world experience and expertise in project management, technology, and AI, I created this workshop to make meal planning simple and help families connect over healthy, home-cooked meals.

In only 60 minutes, you’ll learn how to simplify meal planning in a way that works for your brain, your schedule, and your family’s real needs. You will walk away with your dinners for the next 3–5 days planned and the skills to rinse and repeat.

This isn’t about another app or a complicated system. It’s about learning to think like a meal planner by using modern tools, including free generative AI tools you already have access to, in order to support your style of cooking instead of overwhelming it.

How do I sign up for GourmetBetty’s Meal Planning Workshop?

Register with Luma.

Current options available to accommodate most schedules. Happy to schedule private events in your home or office. Schedule a quick connect to discuss the options.