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By Elizabeth | August 24, 2007

I was so excited when I was first contacted about creating a special offer for my readers with the website emealsforyou. I am one of those cooks that has dozens of cookbooks, and I know there are hundreds of websites with recipes, but I want it all put together for me. I have five people to feed, three meals a day, seven days a week. I don’t want to have to go hunting for recipes for the main dish, the side dish, the vegetable, the dessert. I want it all planned out and right in front of me.

emealsforyou.com is a customized meal-planning site with so much information on it, you won’t even believe it! The site is packed with information, all organized, easy to search, easy to use. Once you create an account, you’ll have your personalized home page. You’ll see a Favorites box, a Meal Plans page, Recipes sorted by category (including Cooking for Kids and Cooking on a Budget!), a searchable Recipe Finder, a Kitchen Notes page with cooking tips, terminology, conversions (so helpful when you are dividing or multiplying a recipe!), and a History page. The site was started by Dennis Kraus, emailing recipes to friends. When he stopped, he got complaints! His friends had been emailing his recipes to other friends, and they wanted more recipes!

What kinds of recipes? What kinds of meal plans? This is so amazing-most meal planning sites just give you meal plans for dinner, right? Not emealsforyou. Their “Careful and Carefree Meal Plans” is FOUR WEEKS of Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and two snacks, all carefully balanced between protein, carbs, and fats! It’s like a gourmet meal planning site AND a gourmet diet site all at once!

What’s that? You want a sneak peek? Well, okay, I’ll give you a little peek into what a week of planned meals looks like:

Week 1: Day 1 Breakfast - Spanish Omelet, Day 1 AM Snack - Apple, Day 1 Lunch - Chicken Caesar Salad, Day 1 PM Snack - Goldfish Crisps, Day 1 Dinner - Great Grilled Chicken, Day 2 Breakfast - Old Fashion Oatmeal, Day 2 AM Snack - String Cheese, Day 2 Lunch - Egg Salad Pita, Day 2 PM Snack - Popcorn, Day 2 Dinner - Ham Steak with White Beans and Spinach, Day 3 Breakfast - Sausage and Cheese Burrito, Day 3 AM Snack - Granola Bar, Day 3 Lunch - Ham Wrap, Day 3 PM Snack - Peach, Day 3 Dinner - Flounder with Green Beans Almondine, Day 4 Breakfast - Smoothie, Day 4 AM Snack - Pretzels n’ Cheese, Day 4 Lunch - Black Bean Burrito, Day 4 PM Snack - Wheat Thins, Day 4 Dinner - Italian Chicken, Day 5 Breakfast - Yogurt with Granola and Fruit, Day 5 AM Snack - Grapes, Day 5 Lunch - Pasta Salad, Day 5 PM Snack - Peanuts, Day 5 Dinner - Salisbury Steak, Day 6 Breakfast - Waffle, Day 6 AM Snack - Celery with Peanut Butter, Day 6 Lunch - Honey Mustard Salmon Sandwich, Day 6 PM Snack - Yogurt Smoothie, Day 6 Dinner - Roasted Vegetable Casserole With Goat Cheese and Herbs, Day 7 Breakfast - Eggs Almost Benedict, Day 7 AM Snack - Fruit Snack, Day 7 Lunch - Grilled Shrimp and Grapefruit Salad, Day 7 PM Snack - Carrots with Ranch Dip, Day 7 Dinner - Steak au Poivre with Spaghetti Squash

Do you see what I mean? Delicious food! All planned out! And so easy to customize-the Meal Plan Manager lets you create your own Meal Plan, call it whatever you want, then put in the recipes you want to make. These are the recipes I have in my recipe box:

Old Fashioned Homemade Bread
Chicken and Noodles
CrockPot Macaroni and Beef
Spaghetti Sauce
Sunday Roast Chicken

I can then create a shopping list with all of the ingredients I need to make these meals. Another terrific feature? The Pantry Planner! It’s a checklist of common pantry ingredients, and you just go through and tick the boxes next to things you need to buy on your next shopping trip.

Now, here’s the best part, the part that makes me do the Happy Dance-access to the site is so cheap, you are not going to believe it. THIRTY SIX dollars for SIX MONTHS access! That is crazy! He’s practically giving these recipes away! And, what’s even better, I can get you access to the site for five dollars less!

Register for the site and use MOMCKS-37 as the Sponsoring Identifier, and you will save five dollars. That’s right, six months access to this fabulous meal planning site for only $31.00. I am so excited to have this offer for you! So what are you waiting for? Go to emealsforyou, enter MOMCKS-37, and get access to this terrific meal planning site today!