I'm Looking for a Good Meal Plan Website or Subscription

I see someone already told you about e-mealz.com, but I wanted to tell you it's awesome! They even have a weight watchers plan that tells you the points and serving sizes! I just signed up but it is very organized and helpful. I have a friend that's vegetarian and uses their vegetarian plan, they've been doing it for awhile and have saved a lot of money! We got the website from our Dave Ramsey class, Good Luck!

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Go to www.fatsecret.com! It is my favorite website! It will do everything for you!!

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Try this out. I love this place

www.menuplanningcentral.com/MealsForYou
www.kidapprovedmeals.com/HappyKids

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I've used both e-mealz and savingdinner.com and both are wonderful. E-mealz even gives you the price of the week's worth of groceries so you can budget for it.

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http://www.savingdinner.com/

Saving dinner is a website that provides menus and menu planning advice.

The menu mailers are weekly menus that provide a healthy entree and side suggestions.

The meals are healthy and I save money by not going the fast-food route, or buying groceries with no idea of what I'll use them for.

There are FREE sample menu mailers to try.
Check it out!

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L.,

I highly recommend www.savingdinner.com . They have different planning menus available depending on what you eat, your schedule, children, how easy cooking is for you. You can really gear it towards your own household.

Good Luck,
L.

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www.menuplanningcentral.com

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Hi L., I have found many great receipes and "Meals for the week" on the following web-site. Recipe 4 Living
Newsletter at "____@____.com. Weight
watches magazine has good receipes too. Hope this helps.
P.S. My niece has fixed up meals in a month in advance.
She loves that it you need something, it is ready in the freezer. Great for this busy mother of 3 under 10. Hope this helps. K.

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I agree with the others savingdinner.com has saved me!! I have a hectic lifestyle with unpredictable hours, but this helps to know we get a healthy balanced meal and stay away from the temptation of quick, fast food that is unhealthy!

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Rachael Ray does whats for dinner everyday...I've tried a few and they have been really good. I think that if you goto RachaelRay.com and click on TV show she has them all listed there with lists.
I also like kraftfoods.com I've found alot of good meals there.

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www.sparkpeople.com is a free site where they'll suggest meal plans (you can modify, or just create your own), it compiles a grocery list, tracks nutritional values/calories; you can also track goals/exercise/daily water, fruit & veggie intake, as well as view recipes etc. It's a diet/healthy lifestyle change type of site....very neat once you get used to using it.

www.cozi.com is a free family calendar site that you can track everyone's busy schedule...you can compile grocery lists and if you forget your list, you can call their toll free number to have them text or read the list to you. Not quite as focused as a meal planner, but would work good for the person that is list oriented.

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Hi L.. I use www.Menus4Moms.com. Not always do I plan my week just as suggested but I do love their recipes, shopping lists and the simplicity of using the achives to piece together my weekly menus if I am stumped. They have a 'no cost' recipe/ shopping list option OR a new addition that does cost- I use the free so I am unsure of what the fee is on the other. Hope this helps. :-)

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My friend lives by the book "Saving Dinner." It is healthy food and it even has the grocery list inside. I believe the weekly meals complement each other and help you to use the same ingredients over so you don't buy a bunch of parsley or cilantro, use it once, then throw it away a few weeks later (i am sure you know what I mean). good luck.

I don't know if you have a Meijers by you or not, but they have something on their website called meal box. It's free, you can type in an ingredient and it will give you recipes for it. You can also create a shopping list right then and there and it also tells you if items you need are on sale or if you can get a coupon for it. It has meal ideas and a calendar to plan it all. I love it and the fact its free is even better! You can also go to krafts website and subscribe to their emails and magazines. They are very yummy dishes and you get new magazines every month! Good luck and good eats!

e-Mealz.com

It is great and well-organized. You pick a store and diet plan (regular, low-fat, low-carb). Each week you get a grocery list organized by aisle, prices listed for that store. Then an extremely well-organized daily chart with ingredients in one row, easy-to-use cooking instructions in another. It is $1.25/week.

The company is based in the south, so they don't have Meijer. But I found by using the WalMart plan and taking it to Meijer, I saved even more money. They also have Kroger, Aldi. This plan has been wonderful for our family!

I LOVE the Kraft website. I get a lot of good ideas from there.

Meijer's website also has a mealbox tool that is for planning meals, I'm assuming with stuff that's on sale that week. I haven't used it, but it can't hurt to check out.

Hi L.,

Try Kraft Foods. You can subscribe to their magazine for free and you get one every 3 months I think it is. They provide shopping list and meal plans.

M. M.

Hi

Check out http://flylady.net/pages/FoodForThought1.asp
It has a wonderful system and you can get menues that help you plan meals emailed to you from www.SavingDinner.com

God Bless
K.

try wwww.savingdinner.com. I refer to this website in my healthy workshops. It is free and recipes are great!

M.

I enjoy kraftfoods.com and I get the mag once a month.Also I check out campbellskitchen.com Have you seen the show semi-homemade on food network? maybe check out Sandra Lee's receipes she does alot with store bought packages canned items etc.I really like Racheal Ray also. Kraft has a receipe finder you can download to your desktop too I really like that.

Hi L.,

Check out www.savingdinner.com They offer great recipes, plus you can use a week or two's worth of meal plans for free. Hope this helps, S.

I get a weekly newsletter from Taste of Home online....it includes 5 days of dinner ideas, and then links to the recipe. You can use something like that.

Another option that I use is to create an excel spreadsheet that has columns for breakfast, lunch dinner and snacks. Then, I do a row for each day. I filled this out using all the non-recipe meals I can cook - chili, sloppy joe, mac and cheese, etc. Then I added the meals that my kids love, but require recipes. I did that for about 6 weeks worth of meals. So, whenever the 'what are we having for dinner' question is asked, I always have a plan! If your interested in the excel file, contact me and I can email it to you.

Clean eating is a wonderful magazine I find very useful. You can find it at any newstand, pharmacy, Meijer, Target, etc.
Hope it helps.

I am part of an AMAZING community of women that are trying to live healthier/stronger lives! It is called ClubFYM (Fit Yummy Mummy). The site has a link to an Online Menu Planner, there is a yearly fee for the OMP...however, I am part of a Transformation Challenge (free) and I get one free year of OMP for free as a tool to use in the Challenge. I would recommend this site to anyone! There are also tons of discussions on the forum about nutrition and meal planning. ClubFYM is a great source of encouragement, support, and information. You can take a peak at the site at clubfym.com

Holly Rigsby is the creator of the site...she is a professional trainer and absolutely PRICELESS to me and many other women. She is the author of Fit Yummy Mummy, a health and fitness program for moms. Let me know if you have any questions...I would be glad to help!!

-A.