One of my New Years Resolutions is to eat at home more often. I am the daughter of restaurateurs and eating out is a big part of my lifestyle. I would love my daughters to think of eating out as a rare treat -- not a regular meal time option.
I needed a tool to help me with my goal. My daughters can easily find something to enjoy from an Indian restaurant as they can a Pizzeria so I needed some great tasting recipes. Recipes that are not afraid of flavour! I have my arsenal of go-to family pleasing recipes but I felt I needed more. That is when I set to the internet. I found some free printable for menu plans, recipes, shopping lists, but nothing that combined all those things into one tool. Then I remember seeing Relish in a blog post years ago.
Relish. Their tag line is "Meal Planning Made Easy" and they do it right!
How does it work?
Every Thursday a new menu choice is loaded. When you log in you see all the choices available including kid-friendly, quick, simple-gourmet, vegetarian and more. You pick as many (or as little) of the recipes you would like. The shopping list is created for you nice and quick. The recipes print out on individual sheets making it easy to reference and find at dinner time.
Relish also has the option to pick some freezer meals. This is a great idea in that every shopping trip I include one meal for the freezer. Perfect for those days I know I won't want to cook. You can also chose one dessert to make for the week. I like that idea too!
The verdict:
I have been using Relish for a month now and I love it. What do I love? Well...
- The recipes are easy and flavourful
- You can customize it to match sales at your grocers (pick your own menu)
- Easy to follow recipes
- Saving money eating in
- Trying new recipes
- Shopping list is DONE and accurate
- Not too many "odd" ingredient
- I discovered my family loves bok choy (I know right??)
- The whole family knows what is for dinner
- ALL the ingredients are in the house (no surprise runs to the store!)
- You can scale to the number of people you are feeding
- Having all these dished to do as we are eating in more!
The great people over at Relish have provided me with a brand new PROMO CODE: SHANNON Will Get You 15% OFF any level. Enjoy!
Good luck
We eat out about once a week. And it's usually Subway. :)
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ReplyDeleteWe eat out at least twice a week. I'd like to reduce that to twice a month.
ReplyDeleteI would love to start meal planning
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ReplyDeleteI would love to start meal planning
ReplyDeleteAbout once every 2 weeks.
ReplyDeleteI eat out too often! Probably twice a week I'd guess
ReplyDeleteWe eat out once or twice a month, or less.
ReplyDeleteWe eat out once a week or twice a month, depending how busy we are.
ReplyDeleteWe eat out once a week or order in.
ReplyDeleteAbout once a week, sometimes every other week.
ReplyDeleteWe eat out about 3 times a week.
ReplyDeleteWe eat out at least once a week, up to 3 times a week.
ReplyDeleteA couple times a month
ReplyDeleteMaybe once a month.
ReplyDeleteCouple times every three wks
ReplyDeletewe eat at restaurants rarely, but we order in weekly
ReplyDeleteI do fast food a lot!! I need to cut back!
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We generally eat out once a week.
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Maybe once a month
ReplyDeleteI was eating out several times a week, but I've cut back drastically.
ReplyDeleteI eat lunch 3x a week when I'm in Manhattan for work. I eat out for dinner or breakfast 1-2 times a week. (Christina Ventura-Dipersia)
ReplyDeleteWe rarely eat out as it can be expensive for a family of six.
ReplyDeleteWe eat out about once a week
ReplyDeleteWe eat out once a week, either Subway or from our favorite vegan cafe
ReplyDeleteId say we eat out about 3-4 times a week... not for dinners, more smoothies and subway for lunch fixes in between school and work :)
ReplyDeleteAbout once per week I eat out
ReplyDeleteWe eat out at least 2 times a week...
ReplyDeleteI eat out once or twice a week.
ReplyDeleteWe eat out every 2-3 weeks
ReplyDeleteWe eat out about 2 to 3 times a week between lunches/dinners/snacks.
ReplyDeletewe used eat out all the time gained alot of weight and now only eat out about once a week and have lossed weight
ReplyDeleteWe eat out about once or twice a week.
ReplyDeleteA few times a week! Trying to meal plan and make it less :)
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