Archive for September 23rd, 2008
e-Mealz vs. www.emealsforyou.com
There is some confusion in the marketplace revolving around our meal planning website www.emealsforyou.com and one called e-Mealz. While both sites provide meal plans we think you should have the facts before you decide.
e-Mealz:
It is our understanding that e-mealz is a subscription service that you sign up for and download a weekly Adobe pdf file based on what that individual grocery store you picked has on sale that week. The service charge for this is $15 per quarter ($60 per year), automatically charged to your credit card until you send them a note to stop. You receive, depending on the plan, either 5 or 7 dinner meal ideas and a shopping list for these meals.
The upside is you are able to plan your meals for the week and save money as the ingredients are on sale. The downside is that you have to like the recipes they send you and use the ingredients they recommend; including many canned soups, sauces and ingredients. Meal plans fall into two categories: Family – 7 dinners for 4-6 people and Regular – 5 dinners for 2 people. e-Mealz provides only the prescribed meals per week; no substitutes, if you don’t like one or two, they tell you to simply cross those ingredients off the shopping list. More importantly if your kids won’t eat what they suggest, you are right back to where you started from: planning several meals without help. There is no opportunity to change the meal plans or to pick meals and desserts other then the dinner plans they provide. Based on the Internet comments regarding this service many become bored with the meals and feel locked in to what e-Mealz thinks they should be eating.
emealsforyou.com is a subscription meal planning service; providing a variety of recipes and meal plans (hundreds to choose from) along with shopping lists based on your choice of recipes and meal plans. All of our recipes and meal plans are scalable (just pick the number of people you are feeding 1,2,4,6,8,10,12) and we will automatically scale the recipes and ingredients for you. If you are having more or less people for the meal; simply scale that meal to suit your needs. Put the meal plans or recipes in your Favorite Box and you can save them and also create shopping lists unique to your choices. We have hundreds of recipes and meal plans to choose from, with no additives or preservatives, and also have a very easy method to create you own meal plans and print a shopping list, with unlimited downloads. Our members have reported savings of 10-20% on their groceries when they shop using a shopping list. With www.emealsforyou.com you are not limited to dinners but have everything from appetizers through desserts; plus special categories for special needs and no limit on the number of meal and recipes your choose..
emealsforyou.com has recipes and meal plans covering a large selection of health and happiness conditions. You simply choose the ones that work for you. While e-Mealz provides 7 or 5 recipes you have signed up for; we allow you to choose recipes and meal plans that you like. Why let someone else tell you what to feed your family? We offer you the choice of over 500 great and easy recipes and meal plans, down-loadable anytime and as many times as you wish. Choose, size and print your shopping list. Our cost is $36 for a full year, $24 less expensive then e-Mealz; with no automatic plan continuation hitting your credit card. emealsforyou.com brings you an easily downloadable Weekly Meal Planner with a 5-day meal plan complete with recipes and shopping list; thus giving you the option of a 5-day suggested meal plan and the ability to choose your meals and create a shopping list. Our Quick Meals Planner/Weekly Meal Planner provides 20 easy and complete 5-day meal plans. Pick the meal plan, scale it to the number in your family, print the shopping list, now that’s easy!
If you would like to see the Recipe and Meal Plan categories on emealsforyou.com click here .
To use your local grocery stores’ sales fliers to save money at the grocery stores while using emealsforyou.com follow these easy steps:
Get the sale fliers from the groceries in your area. Go through them and see what food appeals to you. Log on to www.emealsforyou.com and go to Recipe Finder. Choose those foods that appealed to you and see the recipes associated with them; i. e. choosing chicken breasts showed over 50 recipes including many healthy and low fat/carb recipes. Choose those recipes, send them to your Favorites Box, scale them, and using our easy shopping list function, print the list. This allows much more freedom of choice; why limit yourself to only one grocery store. Our members report shopping with a list has saved them 10-20% on their grocery bill; easing their mind and saving them money, plus they have a happy family.
For those of you who choose to have e-Mealz select the meals for you and become bored and want to switch to the emealsforyou service simply send us an email to obtain an additional discount.
Save Money! Save Time! Save $5.00! Enter EMEALS-24 when you register for emealsforyou.com and receive $5 off the subscription price. That’s 1 FULL YEAR of meal planning for only $31.00.
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Cultural Differences – People vs Food – A Rant
This rant will get different reactions from different folk; seriously, that is the main intention here. We all like ethnic food. For a while Chinese takeout was hot. Then Authentic Mexican restaurants made an entrance on the scene (btw- if you have to say it is authentic, is it really?) Let’s go out for some Thai food, or maybe Greek gyros would hit the spot. Pizza has been around FOREVER; and deli, who doesn’t like a thick corn beef on rye. The point is why do we like the food of people different then us but find reasons to dislike the people.
As we are learning rapidly; it is a world-wide economy we are living in. News flashes appear within moments of real-time on our TV’s from every corner of the world. Yet for some unknown reason we fail to recognize that we are no different they anyone else inhabiting this planet. Maybe, just maybe, if we all were more tolerant of other cultures we could solve some of the global problems facing ALL of us. Fortunately, our kids are better at this then us. May their kids be better still. Anyway, that is what I think and I’m sticking to it.
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Recipe of the Week – Peach Cobbler with Gingered Maple Cream
(from the Dessert Collection at emealsforyou.com)
Peach Cobbler with Gingered Maple Cream
Yesterday was the first day of Fall. Time to use up all the fruits of Summer and enjoy the last wonderful fresh tastes. I went to the local farmers’ market yesterday to buy tomatoes, local grown but really small, and found some peaches. This recipe comes again from Chef Teresa and is full of flavor and will add lots of comfort to the finish of any meal.
Fall is the time to gather family and friends for long, slow meals. I look forward each year, when the weather turns cool in the mornings and evenings, to lingering over a cobbler, crisp or pie with a hot mug of coffee. What better way to ease into the “almost” holiday season. Which reminds me, anyone else out there troubled by Christmas items in the stores even before October? Take the time from your busy schedule to surprise your family with this wonderful treat.
Peach Cobbler with Gingered Maple Cream
| Complexity: | Medium |
| Serves: | 8 |
| Category: | Dessert |
| Meal: | Sunday Night Supper (Celebration Meal Plans) |
| 3 | cup | peaches, sliced |
| 0.5 | cup | sugar, white |
| 1 | Tb | cornstarch |
| 0.25 | cup | sugar, brown |
| 0.5 | cup | water, cold |
| 1 | Tb | butter, salted |
| 1 | Tb | lemon, juice of |
| 1 | cup | flour |
| 0.5 | cup | sugar, white |
| 1.5 | tsp | baking powder |
| 0.5 | tsp | salt, table |
| 0.5 | cup | milk, whole |
| 0.25 | cup | butter, salted |
| 1.5 | cup | cream, heavy |
| 0.33 | cup | maple syrup |
| 3 | Tb | corn syrup, light |
| 1 | pinch | salt, table |
| 0.25 | tsp | ginger, ground |
Combine the sliced peaches and white sugar in large saucepan and mix gently. Add cornstarch, brown sugar, and water. Cook and stir over medium heat until thick. Add butter and lemon juice. Pour into a greased 12 by 7 inch baking dish. Set aside while you prepare the crust.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Sift the dry ingredients into large mixer bowl. Add the milk and softened butter all at once and beat just until smooth. Drop the batter by heaping tablespoons over the peach mixture and bake for 30 minutes. Serve with gingered maple cream
For Gingered Maple Cream: Combine cream, maple syrup, corn syrup, ginger, and dash of salt. Simmer for about 20 minutes or until thickened and reduced. Chill
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