Like many people, my husband and I made a New Years Resolution to lose a few pounds. He's opting for the Weight Watchers online program while I follow the Eat Clean program.

The best way to stay on track is to plan your meals out, so I started listing different foods that we like and tagging them respectively.

For example, I make a large egg white frittata with tons of veggies that we usually share. I created a list called "FOOD" and each task is a different food (not a whole meal, just individual dishes). So I'll list "Egg White Frittata" and tag it the following ways:
#breakfast
#main
#WW (for Weight Watchers)
#EC (for Eat Clean)
#2 (number of points for WW)
#Protein (It's an Eat Clean protein)
#CCV (It includes Eat Clean Complex Carb Vegetables)

In the notes I can specify quantities and any directions/recipe info.

Now, when I'm planning meals (well he plans his own breakfast and lunch for himself using this shared list) I just search for #breakfast & #EC and it brings up all the breakfasts I can have. He can use the same list and create his meals. I included the points because sometimes he is hungry at the end of the day and wants something but only has a certain number of points left. So he can simply search #2 or #1 or #3 and it will include foods that have only 1, 2 or 3 points each.

I've also incorporated someone else's tip that I've started tagging my grocery items with meals to make shopping lists easily. I'll tag "Eggs", "Peppers", "Onions" and "Spinach" with the tag "Fritatta" so when I plan our food for the week I can see which ingredients I need to make our meals.

The reason I don't put the entire meal is because sometimes I want to change up the side dishes; sometimes we want Sweet Potato Fries, other times Brown Rice, other times just some Sauteed Spinach. Each of those are tagged accordingly and instead of "#main" I also tag them "#side".