EMEALZ Makes Meals Easy {Giveaway & Review}

 

While at BlogHer 11, I had the immense privilege of meeting some awesome bloggers and some awesome representatives from companies. One of these representatives happened to be one of my roommates, Heather. She works on behalf of EMEALZ, and let me tell ya…from the moment she told me about EMEALZ, I was hooked on the idea and concept.

What is it? Well, essentially a money-saving, meal planning service that rocks.

EMEALZ essentially looks at the weekly circulars from the popular grocery store chains and compiles a shopping list for you AND includes recipes on how to use those items to create fabulous meals for you. Yup, for YOU. A family of two? They have a plan for that. A family of four? That too. Oh and if you’re doing low carb or vegetarian? Yup, they offer those plans as well.

I was given the opportunity to try EMEALZ out, and since it’s just Daniel and I, I went with the plan for 2 people at Wal-Mart since that’s a grocery store that’s about 3 miles away. We are there ALL THE TIME. It’s sick really. Usually when my husband and I go to Wal-Mart, we end up spending over $50 and it’s mostly junk. Seriously, because it never fails that we come home after a long day at work and ask ourselves, “What are we going to make for dinner?”

Um. Well. We have lots of ice cream…ok, we’ll eat out. And…There goes $20. If we’re lucky, it’s only $20.

Never fails. This scenario happens a lot. Not good for the waist nor the bank account, that is for sure.

With EMEALZ, we get 5 dinners/meals a week that serve both of us that cost little money AND time. I hate recipes that call for $30 worth of ingredients for a meal. Here’s an example of a recipe we tried out and loved:

How easy is that? And if that doesn’t have you convinced that anyone can benefit from EMEALZ, check out how much 1-week’s worth of dinners costs at Wal-Mart using their grocery list:

That’s cheap. My husband and I had dinner with friends last Tuesday. The bill? $70. Just for he and I. That’s almost twice as much as a weeks worth of dinners.

I cannot stress enough that EMEALZ can truly be used by anyone regardless of dietary restrictions. They do have low carb, gluten free, portion control, low fat, vegetarian, etc. It’s great for couples OR families.

At only $5.00 a month, EMEALZ really pays for itself quickly by keeping you organized and saving you time/money (even Dave Ramsey recommends it). The meal plans are posted weekly, you have a shopping list that tells you exactly what you need to buy and approximately how much it’ll cost, and the meals take 30 minutes or less. What more could you ask for?

A free 3 month subscription? Ok, ok. I’m giving one of those away to one of you lovely readers out there. How can you win a FREE 3-month subscription to this fabulous website? Here’s how!

5 ways to enter:

-Mandatory Entry: Subscribe to my blog. Already do? Let me know!

-Follow @EMEALZ on Twitter

-Like/Fan EMEALZ on Facebook and post on their wall that Monica sent ya over!

-Check out their sample weekly menu (for 2) or sample menu for 4 and let me know which recipe you’d make.

-Tell me why/how the 3-month subscription would benefit you.

Please leave a comment for each method of entry (up to 5 comments total) AND a way for me to contact if you win.

If you don’t win and want to try this awesome service, use the discount code BLOGHER for 10% off of new subscriptions.

Contest is open from now until next Friday, September 2nd, 2011 at noon CST. Winner will be announced by 5 pm CST on September 2nd, 2011.

Disclosure: I was provided with a free subscription to EMEALZ in exchange for this review. Any consequent obsession with the recipes I’ve made or how much I adore Heather from EMEALZ had no bearing on this glowing review. Neither did my extreme elation at saving money/time/sanity. All opinions are my own as are the leftovers from the dinners I’ve made. Word.