Most Well-liked Recipes of 2023

Welcome to my annual roundup of Venture Meal Plan’s greatest and Most Well-liked Recipes of 2023! Right here’s the place I mirror on the yr, chat highlights, share tendencies, and countdown our Prime 10 Most Well-liked Recipes of 2023!

This end-of-year submit is certainly one of my favourite posts to place collectively. It’s all the time good to step again, check out the yr as an entire, and see what the vibe is. The recipes I believe will probably be standard, not often ever are. There are all the time surprises once I take a look at issues from a distinct angle. I discover all of the numbers to be tremendous attention-grabbing, and I hope you do too!

After I do take this step again, it’s a lot simpler to see issues like – HOLY COW this many individuals visited my web site? Checked out my pictures? Visited this very web page? Cooked my recipes??? I’m all the time in awe of it. And I solely have YOU, the readers, to thank.

Perhaps it doesn’t appear as heartfelt by way of textual content, however please know that I’m placing further love into these very keystrokes only for you <3 THANK YOU.

For visiting a submit, for liking a reel, for leaving a remark, for sharing a recipe, for even studying this. All of it helps, and I admire it greater than you recognize.

Let’s get to the great things, we could? My knowledge and quantity nerd mates, that is for you!! I put collectively this record by trying on the prime most seen recipes on Venture Meal Plan, not together with recipe round-ups or non-recipe article posts (these will probably be listed individually after!).

Stick round for some mini lists beneath – akin to prime meal prep lunches, prime NEW 2023 recipes, and extra! Even in the event you don’t care concerning the numbers, that is the right place to select the following PMP recipe to cook dinner in your individual kitchen.

Should you’re on the lookout for the most effective of Venture Meal Plan based on YOU, the readers, then you’ve got to browse this record of our Most Well-liked Recipes of 2023!

Most Well-liked Recipes of 2023

2023 in Assessment

Venture Meal Plan 2022 vs. 2023 Stats

Pageviews: Elevated 27.70% from ~2,224,000 (2022) to 2,840,000 (2023)

Pageviews are the variety of pages seen by a Consumer, together with repeat pageviews, throughout any variety of periods. Greater is best!
Customers: Elevated 22.72% from ~1,514,000 (2022) to 1,858,000 (2023)

A Consumer is somebody who has initiated a minimum of one session on the web site. Greater is best!

Views per person: Elevated from 1.47 views per person (2022) to 1.53 views per person (2023)

The common variety of cellular app screens or internet pages seen per person. Greater is best!

Common Engagement Time: 30 seconds

That is the common size of time that the app was within the foreground, or the website online had focus within the browser. This can be a new metric in GA4 that I don’t have from earlier years.

RPM (income per mille, or income per thousand views): Elevated from $32.49 in 2022 to $33.83 in 2023

Notes on these statistics:

• In my eyes, this was a great yr for Venture Meal Plan, particularly in comparison with final yr. A rise of each customers and pageviews is all the time an accomplishment, however with each over 20% enhance from final yr, we’re positively headed in the appropriate route!
• This yr marked the swap from Common Analytics to Google Analytics 4, so the metrics reporting is barely completely different than it was once. Due to this, I’m barely switching up which metrics are shared right here.
• I centered on high quality content material this yr – I do attempt to share a brand new recipe each single week, but when one thing isn’t prepared, I gained’t drive it. I additionally up to date and republished 4 previous recipes this yr. It’s good to see this work paying off!

Venture Meal Plan’s 2023 Prime 5 Lists

Prime 5 NEW Recipes Revealed in 2023

After I submit a brand new recipe, it takes a while to be seen by the individuals, achieve traction, and get suggestions. That’s why you often don’t see these new recipes present up within the Prime 10 record in the identical yr they had been printed.

So that they get their very own record! It’s attention-grabbing to see what will get a right away response versus what individuals aren’t actually into as a lot. Right here’s the record of prime 5 recipes newly printed in 2023:

1. Creamy Tuscan Hen Meal Prep
2. Air Fryer Banana Oatmeal Cookie For One
3. Dill Pickle Hen Salad
4. Zesty Italian Tortellini Pasta Salad
5. Meal Prep Soy Chorizo Breakfast Burritos

Prime 5 Non-Recipe Posts of 2023

I share principally recipes on Venture Meal Plan, however I often share useful articles and recipe round-ups as nicely. Right here’s a listing of the highest 5 hottest posts on Venture Meal Plan that aren’t recipes:

1. 16 Make-Forward Chilly Lunch Concepts To Prep For Work
2. The First 15 Recipes I Made With My Air Fryer
3. 10 Dealer Joe’s Meals That Are Excellent For Your Air Fryer
4. 25+ Make-Forward Thanksgiving Potluck Aspect Dish Concepts
5. 30 Weeknight Dinner Menu Theme Concepts

Prime 5 Meal Prep Lunches of 2023

Now we have a wide selection of meal prep lunch recipes right here at Venture Meal Plan. Since a lot of them don’t make all of it the way in which as much as the highest (as a result of air fryer recipes are all the time taking over the spots), I wish to share some in a separate record so you’ll be able to see that are hottest. Listed here are the highest 5 meal prep lunches of 2023:

1. Meal Prep Unstuffed Pepper Bowls
2. Straightforward Turkey Pinwheels Meal Prep
3. Meal Prep Ginger Floor Beef Bowls
4. Hen Hummus Plate Lunch Meal Prep
5. Floor Turkey Cabbage Stir Fry Meal Prep

Prime 5 Site visitors Referral Sources (+ proportion of all site visitors)

Site visitors referral supply refers back to the place the site visitors got here from, or how they bought to the Venture Meal Plan web site. Listed here are the highest 5 site visitors sources to Venture Meal Plan:

1. Pinterest – 39.06%
2. Google – 38.32%
3. Direct/None – 17.90%
4. Bing – 0.59%
5. Fb – 0.40%

Notes & Feedback on the 12 months

• Throughout 2023, I printed 27 new recipes and eight new articles on Venture Meal Plan. I additionally up to date 4 previous recipes with useful content material and new pictures. Venture Meal Plan has a complete of 279 recipes.
• This yr in June, I had one other surgical procedure to take away one other inside organ (goodbye, uterus 👋). I took a while off to get better and didn’t publish something new for a couple of weeks after that. It’s actually nice to see progress in pageviews and income regardless that I took a while off.
• I filmed a complete of 1 YouTube model video early within the yr (PB Banana Oatmeal Bars!), however then I transitioned to filming content material for social media with my cellphone. The trade is ever-changing!
• Talking of social media, the PMP Instagram had some unbelievable progress this yr. It’s principally due to my Veggies Vs. {Dollars} collection – a 5 half installment of Reels detailing all of the greens I grew in my yard, and the way a lot they had been value within the retailer value. Right here’s a link to part 2, which is the closest factor to viral any of my Reels have ever gone! I gained roughly 15k followers from this collection, which feels good, since these Reels took plenty of time to make.
• This yr, visits to air fryer recipes made up 25.06% of whole pageviews, which is down from final yr (34.7% in 2022, and 46% in 2021). This is smart – extra retailer packaging is coming with air fryer directions, and I’ve been specializing in other forms of cooking these days!

2023 Wins & Accomplishments:

Hit over 10,000 pageviews 4 Sundays in a row!

Final yr, my objective was to hit 10k pageviews for a minimum of two weeks in a row. I hit that objective, so for 2023, I upped the objective. This yr, I attempted to hit 10k pageviews for a minimum of 4 weeks in a row, and I did it!

Beginning after the 4th of July, almost each Sunday was nicely over 10,000 pageviews. The only day pageview report for 2023 got here on August twentieth, with 17,057 pageviews.

Earn over $8,000 advert income in a single month!

I’m thrilled to report I used to be capable of beat this objective with a thick cushion! Venture Meal Plan had two months of 2023 incomes over $8,000 every in advert income. Thanks Mediavine for being my accomplice in all issues advert administration!

Rent a recipe developer to create two extra recipes monthly!

Rising the number of recipes supplied on Venture Meal Plan has all the time been a precedence of mine. And this yr, I knew I had a surgical procedure taking place in some unspecified time in the future. So, I made a decision to get some assist creating new recipes from an expert.

An enormous thanks to Rachel with 40A for working with me to create scrumptious make-ahead pleasant recipes! I teamed up with Rachel in March of this yr – she’s the brains behind a few of my new favorites like Thai Hen Larb Impressed Meal Prep and No-Bake Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Balls.

Lastly, listed below are the hottest recipe lists from earlier years – you’ll positively acknowledge a pair constant favorites!

Thanks for celebrating all the yr’s accomplishments with me! Should you’ve learn this far, you’re positively a superfan, and I’m so grateful for you!

I’d love to listen to your ideas within the remark part beneath. Have you ever made any of the recipes on this record? What was your favourite recipe on Venture Meal Plan this yr? I wanna know!!

Cheers to a different yr! Glad meal planning, cooking and consuming in 2024 🙂