Meal planning just got a million percent easier. And cheaper.

Until we can all afford our own personal chefs, the next best thing is easily Relish!, a truly cool meal-planning service for busy parents.www.relishrelish.com.

This easy to use (really), mom-run website helps you prepare healthy, creative meals every week!  You pick from a ton of excellent tested recipes, a very cleverly organized grocery list is automatically created, then all you do is hit the store for five days worth of home-cooked meals–not one of which takes more than 30 minutes to prepare.

You’ll find a whole lot to choose from including freezer meals, vegetarian menus, super-quick and slow cooker recipes.  And you’ll find tons of kid’s faves that don’t include the word “nugget.”

For subscriptions at $7 a month, you’ll end up with five complete dinners for a family of four running you less than $95. Between the money savings and the anxiety savings, you’re coming out way ahead.

My Review of this website:

This website is very user friendly. I love the “key” to tell you if the meal is KF = kid friendly, Q= quick to make, and other’s. I also love the holiday menu’s they offer. They are very unique to others I have seen out there. I also love that it tells you if you need to prep something in the morning or not. Me, being a mom of 4, plus a husband, need to know up front how long a meal will take. Some days I have more time to prepare a meal then others. The recipes on this site are laid out easily. One thing I wish it had that I haven’t seen yet on a site like this is a coupon section to match coupons with the items you need to buy to make the meal. Now THAT would be awesome. It would also be neat to be able to send this info. to my phone to be able to take with me to the store to purchase the ingredients I need instead of printing out paper and carrying it. Anything to make moms life easier and less of a hassle I am all for!  UPDATE: I just went to the site (like I said, always something new on there, they are working on a FREE iphone app. says, coming soon, this is a wonderful enhancement !!!)

I totally think this site is worth your time and consideration to check out. I was given a month to try it myself and I have been discovering new options on it every time I use it. I am definitely going to use the “Dinner and a Movie Section” and also the “dinner parties” meal planner.

The gracious people at Relish.com are going to give away on my site to one of my subscribers a YEAR subscription to their site !!!! This is a money saving, meal planning opportunity you WON’T want to miss!!!  (value of $58.80)

Here is how you can enter to win this awesome subscription:

• MUST be a subscriber to my blog
• Tweet, ” Win a YEAR Subscription to Relish.com at    http://is.gd/4CWp1     Save time and money while planning meals!” – comment with your tweet thread, = 1 entry per tweet up to 3 per day
• grab my button and add it onto your site, comment and tell me where you placed it, so I can verify = 1 entry
• vote for me at Divine Caroline, click on their button in my sidebar = 1 entry, and thank you for voting
• technorati, digg, stumble, momfave this post or my blog, tell me which you did (or u can do all) = 1 entry per way
• join my facebook fan page, plussizemommy on facebook = comment and tell me your my newest fan = 1 entry
• comment and tell me something that Relish.com can maybe provide to make your meal planning and making easier and less expensive = 1 entry per comment, comment must be at least 3 sentences in length please.

This giveaway is open NOW and will end on Nov. 1, 2009 so you can start meal planning for your holidays!!!! Winner will be chosen by random.org on Nov. 1 at 10PM EST. Winner will be posted to this site and will have 48 hours to respond with a valid email address so your year subscription code can be emailed to you. Thank you for entering and Good Luck!!!

The Plus Size Mommy

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