Make Meal Planning Easier with Relish! (Giveaway)

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know that I am not a cook. In fact, I hate to cook! And one of the reasons is that the whole menu-planning process is intimidating to me. What should I make? What ingredients do I need? How do I get out of the rut of making the same things all the time? It’s just overwhelming to me. And then I heard about Relish!

Relish! is an online meal-planning service for busy parents. It is amazing! Here’s how it works: Every Thursday, they post a new selection of recipes. You get an email reminder to go to their site and pick five meals you like from a selection of 15, plus a dessert. You input how many people you’ll be serving, and they generate a complete shopping list for you along with the recipes. None of the recipes takes more than 30 minutes to prepare! (That’s definitely my kind of meal. The less time I spend in the kitchen, the better!)

The recipes are labeled with helpful symbols like KF for Kid Friendly, C for Crockpot and V for Vegetarian. This really helps in choosing the kind of recipe you want. If there’s a recipe that was a real hit with your family, you can put it in your Favorites Folder and add it into your weekly menu any time you want to make it again. You can also add in your own recipes, and they’ll automatically incorporate the ingredients into your grocery list whenever you select them. They also offer monthly freezer meals that you can make and freeze so you always have meals on hand.

This is such a cool site! They’re always adding something new, like extra recipes, cooking tips, and more. And they are so reasonable. If you sign up for three months, it’s just $21. Save 15% for a six-month subscription ($35.70) and save 30% for a year’s subscription ($58.80)! That’s only about $1.13 a week to plan your family’s meals, help them eat healthier, decrease your shopping anxiety, and save you money. Just go to www.relishrelish.com to sign up.

GIVEAWAY

Relish! is generously donating a one-year subscription (a $58.80 value) to one lucky reader! To enter, leave a comment below explaining why you think that Relish! is right for you! You must do this to enter the giveaway.

As always, you can earn optional, additional entries by doing any of the following and leaving a separate comment for each:

- Following Susan Heim on Parenting through Google Friend Connect. Click on the “Follow” button on the left sidebar.

- Following me on Twitter (@ParentingAuthor) and tweeting about this giveaway. Leave a comment with the URL of your tweet. You may tweet once a day. Please leave a separate comment for each tweet. You can use this phrase if you'd like:

RT @ParentingAuthor Susan Heim on Parenting: Enter to win a full year of meal-planning services with Relish! http://bit.ly/YJ5qW

- Putting a button for Susan Heim on Parenting on your blog (the code is in the upper right-hand column of this site) and/or a text link on your blog roll. Post a comment with your blog’s URL.

- Posting this giveaway on your blog with a link to this page. Leave a comment with a direct link to the post.

- Listing Susan Heim on Parenting as one of your Favorites on Technorati. (See “Add this Blog to My Technorati Favorites” banner on the left sidebar.) Leave a comment with your Technorati user name.

- Subscribing to Susan Heim on Parenting via email and/or RSS (see sign-up options on left sidebar). Leave a comment for each subscription method.

One winner will be randomly selected from the qualified comments received by Monday, November 30, 2009, at midnight ET. Please leave an email address on one of your comments if it’s not available on your Blogger profile. Winners must respond within 72 hours or another winner will be drawn.

CONTEST CLOSED. Congratulations to the winner, Shelby!





DISCLOSURE: I received a complimentary one-month subscription to Relish! to facilitate this review. No other compensation was provided.