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From A Subscriber, Posted To  Women's forum ( used with permission)

Anyone who has been in the chat room with me knows I'm usually there while making dinner. I have tempted many of you with dishes such as Caribbean Butternut and Chicken Stew and Autumn Fruit Soup. I feel so proud to make healthy, easy, seasonal and DELICIOUS meals for my family. I feel so accomplished.

The irony is: I really dislike cooking. Cooking stresses me out like no other activity. I can follow a recipe well, but am awful at meal planning. I have long needed [...] someone to just tell me what to cook. Well, I've found it. And who'd have thought it would be so yummy???

[KitchenMuse.net] has a menu planning service which provides 6 dinners, 4 side dishes, 2 desserts, a grocery list for it all (broken down into easy shopping categories), and a weekly meal prep list (for doing stuff like prepping salad fixings and chopping onions for the whole week).

It is whole foods at it's best. And a bonus is that it's easily tailored to dairy- and gluten-free diets. I love making double recipes and having it for leftovers or freezer meals, and these recipes work great for that.

I was a little worried that my kids and DH would be a little leery of "whole foods cooking". But to my delight, they all have loved every meal as much as I have! I've taken a few of the meals to potlucks with friends and each time my dishes were the hit of the night!

While you can certainly decide to pick and choose specific meals and just cook those, I've found it the easiest and best to use the entire week's menu. Once every couple of weeks I substitute one of the meals to avoid a known allergy (shellfish or peanuts), but it's so easy to do that! I just look at the weekly grocery shopping list and she has the number of the meal each item corresponds to right there! Easy peasy! I delete the appropriate amount of that ingredient and substitute a different meal's worth of food instead.

Our grocery bills have actually gone down by $200/month, plus one meal a week of eating out since it's already made and I don't have to scramble for dinner.

Granted, you do still have to cook some. But there are tons of crockpot recipes (that don't involve Campbell's soup ) and the weekly food prep really helps minimize your kitchen time. I am usually able to make the meal early in the day and only do the final prep during my children's witching hour before dinner. Which is SOOOO nice.

I can't believe how much this has enriched my family's life - in time, money, health, enjoying good food and making me feel like a great chef!

I highly recommend getting a subscription - it's so worth the low subscription cost! I bought the half-year subscription for $27 and wish I had done the whole year!

Buen provecho!!!

-Andrea