When I got married almost 6 years ago, I had no idea how to cook. I had a few basic skills, but I had very little understanding of what actually went in to cooking for a family every day. Here's what dinner looked like at our house: I would wait until the Sailor got home from work and ask, "What do you want for dinner?". The answer was almost always, "I don't know". We'd sit down at the computer, peruse recipes, make a shopping list, go to the grocery store, come home, and start dinner - every day! We were either eating dinner at 8:30 every night or going out. Going to the grocery store 5 times a week is almost as expensive as eating out!
Enter Saving Dinner. Through a forum, I found out about a menu mailer subscription that sent out a menu plan, recipes, and a shopping list every week. It was perfect! Saving Dinner taught me how to cook and the Sailor affectionately referred to it as my "wife lessons". Soon after, I branched out to their freezer menus. I was enticed by a few other systems and I've tried most of the major menu planning sites online. I've had a lot of people ask about them, so I'm going to start a series reviewing the ones I've tried.
Stay tuned for menu mailer reviews on:
-Saving Dinner
-The Six O'Clock Scramble
-E-Mealz
-The Fresh 20
-The Once A Week Cooking Club
-5 Dinners 1 Hour
and non-menu mailer mealtime solutions:
-Stonesoup Virtual Cookery School
-Pocket Full of Posies
Friday, December 2, 2011
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