Hi everyone! I thought with the new year here a new menu plan was in order! Since I’ve tapped out my own recipe ideas, I was really excited when the folks over at E-Meals asked if I wanted to check out their menus! I have to say they have some great options over there and I wanted to share them with you today!
What is E-Meals?
E-Meals is an online menu planning website that offers weekly menu plans for busy moms and wives! They have over 20 menu plans for families ranging from 2-6 people and in addition to their traditional menus they offer low carb, low fat, and vegetarian options as well!
One of the coolest things I think is that you can pick your grocery store! They plan their menus so that you get the best deals for your store! Each weekly menu also comes with a grocery shopping list, which many of you have asked me for!
And there are a bunch of new meal plans for 2013 to choose from!
- Classic Meals
- Clean Eating
- Simple Gourmet
- Paleo
- Low Carb
- Low Fat
- Portion Control
- Natural & Organic
- Gluten Free
- Vegetarian
So how does it work?
It’s so easy, you just choose which plan you want, print your list, head to the store, then come home to cook your meal! With E-Mealz it’s all planned out for you, and specific to your choice of stores as well!
What’s the cost? E-Meals offers three subscription options:
- 3 months for $21
- 6 months for $35.00
- 1 year for $58.00
One thing I like about the subscription is that if you pick a plan then decide you want to switch, E-Meals allows you to change your plan one time every subscription term! They also offer different recipes each week so no getting bored!
What did we think?
I was quite impressed with the meal variety that we tried. My kids didn’t love everything we made, but there were quite a few that they did like. I did skip a few meals they listed since I knew they wouldn’t eat them anyway, but it was really easy to do that and still have a full menu plan with the other recipes. And I think my family was happy to have some variations to our usual meals too!
My favorite thing is the grocery list. I picked my local store which made it really easy to shop each week. The recipes are also really easy to make. The meal, ingredients and instructions all fit on a one page printout which made it easy to reference during the week.
They also include individual prices for all the items on their list including which ones are on sale and in store specials! They also have a total cost for the week’s dinners (excluding tax) so you can help budget! How cool is that!
Want more info? Visit E-Meals at any of the links below!
- E-Meals website
- E-Meals on Facebook
- E-Meals on Twitter
- E-Meals Blog
Ready to win a free subscription to emeals?
The nice people at emeals has offered a free 3 month subscription to one of my readers! YAY!
I like the classic meals.
I like the classic meals also, although I’m interested in the Palio style as well.
I like the clean and low fat meals
I like the classic plan
I like the Clean Eating Plan.
I like the Classic but would try any meal plan for variety!
Clean eating plan looks awesome!
I liked the portion control and simple gourmet plans. Thanks!
I would live to try the the Clean Eating or Paleo meal plan
I like the classic meals menu plan.
I like the clean eating plan, although the low fat version is tailored to my grocery store, which my wallet would like even better!
The vegetarian or clean eating one!!
I love the gluten free plan and how they customize the recipies to my favorite store!
It looks like it would be great – but not sure it would work for us simply b/c we deal with multiple food allergies (not just gluten) and we try to avoid as many processed foods as possible – even organic can be processed. I wasn’t ab;e to find a sample recipe to see what ingredients they would use, so it is difficult to say if it would work for us.
Maybe the free trial would give me a better idea
But, if I didn’t have to factor in all the above, it looks like a wonderful program!
Do they have an option that would include multiple choices?
I would want a meal plan that is vegetarian, and organic.
The paleo plan looks great for our family. Thanks for the opportunity!
The clean plan looks best for us.
Love that there is such a wide variety of meal plans to accomodate differing dietary needs. I love the Paleo plan – everything looks absolutely delicious!
I think the Paleo looks wonderful!! I almost paid to do it but….joined weight watchers instead! Lol, WW is really working for me
I like the low fat meals!
I’ve had my eye on emeals for a while now!
I’m having trouble deciding between the clean eating or the natural / organic meal plan.
Thanks for the opportunity!
I tried emeals before, and although I liked the concept, I didn’t use it enough. But after taking a look again and seeing that they offer a paleo menu and updated grocery lists, well I am definitely sold again! Thanks!
Love the low-fat meal plan! I think that would work for us.
I would probably go with natural and organic.
I’d probably go with natural and organic!
I am having a hard time picking! I like the vegitarian, Paelo, and clean. Will be hard to choose one.
Natural and Organic
Classic Meals
I love the public low fat family plan
They all look good but I’d probably choose he classic meal plan and then adjust it.
i liked the classic and vegetarian meals the best!
I’d be interested in either clean or paleo menus. I’d have to research that!
I’d probably choose natural and organic.
I would choose paleo.
I like the clean eating the best!!
I like the vegetarian meals:)
I like the classic meals and the simple gourmet the best!
The clean eating sounds wonderful. I do a lot of whole foods cooking (from scratch). I need some new ideas!!
I would love to try the classic plan! I am always asking myself at 4:00 pm ‘what are we going to have for dinner?’ Emeals would solve this! I could get all of the ingredients on Saturday and already have the week of meals planned! Wow that would be incredible and one less worry!
The classic family meals look like they would fit my family best.
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Thank you for the opportunity
My daughter has food allergies. She is allergic to milk and peanuts, so I like the vegetarian plan because it would be easier for me to incorporate her food into it. It’s really hard having a child with food alergies and coming up with different meals everyday! Thanks!!
I like the vegetarian family meal plan. While paleo also looks pretty neat, we’re all trying to eat healthier and, so, the vegetarian plan would be better for us.
Our family would like the Classic family meals
I don’t know which one I like best!! I would love to try the Simple Gourmet or the Natural & Organic or even the Classic!! I also love that they have the breakfast and lunch plan options!
I like the Paleo meals because I am always having a hard time coming up with dinner ideas! EMeals looks fantastic
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Simple gourmet sounds good.
I like the Clean Eating meal plan
I’d lean towards Paleo, but possibly clean eating or gluten free as well. Mostly we avoid proccessed stuff and wheat (though not all gluten).
I like the classic or simple gourmet.
Either low carb or clean eating plan
Clean meals
Our family would love the classic plan or simple eating. Between working and homeschooling the meal planning would be a blessing:)
I would love the classic plan for my family we are simple a mixer of simple and picky eaters
Having a meal plan is one of my stress no more resolution for this year this a would be a blessing !!
I’d choose the Gluten Free or Clean Eating plans.
I think I’d choose either the Classic Meals or Simple Gourmet plans. Maybe Clean Eating.
I like the Kroger classic meals.
I’d choose either classic meals, portion control meals, or low fat meals.
I’d probably go with the Classic meal plan, although I am intrigued by trying Paleo, so this might be a great way to try that out. Thanks for the chance to win!
I like the simple gourmet meals!
I love the Aldi plan for 4-6 people! Thank you for the opportunity!
Classic! And I love that Aldi is a store option – great deals.
I would love the gluten-free or the vegetarian plans.
I’ve been wanting to try this for a while. I think it sounds great. I would likely try the Clean or Classic. Though Gluten Free would be interesting as we eat some Gluten Free. I think its great there are so many choice. Thanks for the great giveaway.
Vegetarian!
Clean eating
Probably the classic meals, though I would have to put a healthy twist on them (using free-range, and less prepackaged ingredients). The clean eating and organic looked very interesting, but unfortunately my husband doesn’t eat seafood of any variety, and fish makes up a large portion of their recipes. I would more than likely end up subbing quite a bit, regardless.
I think the classic menu would best suit my family.
I like the clean and the classic meal plans best. My husband and I just began learning more and trying to introduce more “clean” god given food this year.
Classic is just classic though, and always yummy and satisfying. 
I currently use 3 cookbooks a week to plan my meals, and then cut coupons, grocery shop, budget (new for 2013) and go to 3 different grocery stores. This would be such a time saver for a new homeschooling mom like me. You’re fantastic Erica!!
clean eating looks great!!
Clean Eating or Classic Meals
Natural and Organic for us!
I think I like the classic meal plan best, but the low carb would be good also since diabetes runs in my husband’s family.
there are too many choices:
clean eating, paleo, not sure. =0)
I like the Classic Meal Plan
Paleo – Becuase that is how we eat
I like the Clean Eating but think I would try the Classic ten the clean!
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I like the vegetarian and clean meals best.
I like the breakfast plan.
With all my guys, I would have to say the classic meals looks the best for our family.
I like the natural and organic plan! But I like the classic too. I could make it organic as well!
I think my favorite plan would be the low-carb one.
I would pick classic or low-carb.
I would go with the Classic meal plan.
I would choose Natural and Organic
I would chose the low-carb meal plan
The clean eating plan looks very interesting.
I like classic meals or the simply gourmet.
The Paleo or Simple Gourmet look good!
I would probably pick the vegetarian, just to eat more veggies, AND I totally love the DAVE RAMSEY endorsement! GAZELLLLLLE!
I thought I would be classic, but after looking at the samples what I normally cook is more in line with clean. I’m bummed they don’t have Sprouts as a grocery store option.
Clean eating for me but family would like classic
I like the classic plan!
I would have to choose the gluten free plan as I have twins who can’t have gluten. Looks wonderful!
I like the classic and the simple meal plans. They would really help me make something yummy but “different”.
Winning the meal plan would be great because it’s just not in our budge to buy it. Thanks for the opportunity, whoever wins is lucky!
God bless.
I like the classic meal plan.
I am torn between Clean Eating and Paleo. Maybe I would switch once?
The clean plan is really interesting to me, but as for needing to feed the family the classic plan looks best
I like the clean eating menu.
I like the vegetarian plan.
The classic meal plan would probably be the one I’d gravitate towards for my family.
Classic or the organic plan.
I’m loving the clean eating option!
Like the Classic plan. Only wish they were a bit more Canadian friendly:)
I like the clean eating plan. I have been wanting to eat clean foods but just don’t know where to start so this could be a big help.
I like the Natural & Organic & I love that they have Aldi listed as one of their stores… I shop there allllll the time!
I like the clean eating plan.
I like the low-fat plan!
I’d probably sign up for the clean or classic meal plans! Thanks for the giveaway!!
I think we would like the classic meal plan the best.
I like the clean meal plans although I might also go classic.
We are having a baby in April and I would love to try Emeals Classic! Seems like it could help out whoever is ‘helping out’ with the cooking for our family.
Classic meals looks good!
I would like to try the Clean eating or natural/Organic menu. I had tried Classic a couple years
ago and thought it contained too much processed ingredients, although the format was awesome.
I think the new plans would be a great match for my preferences.
I’ve used Emeals before and LOVED it! Unfortunately, once we started homeschooling, we had to cut back on expenses to afford curriculum and emeals is one thing that had to go – along with thegrocerygame.com (which I LOVE also!). I would love to start using Emeals again! Hopefully I’ll win!!!
Oh and we’ve used the Low Fat and Classic meal plans – both great! Best of all, my kids got used to the variety and were more willing to try new things!
Ohhh! They all sound so good-I am torn between the Classic Meals and Clean Eating. Thanks!
We love the gluten free plan. Works great for our family!
Classic meals
I’d have to go with classic to fit the whole family.
I like all the plans, but I might want to go for Gluten Free both to be thinking of my sister and to add more GF to my familys diet.
We are liking the paleo meals so far!
interested in learning more paleo recipes
Natural and Organic
I think I would love the classic meal plan!
I like the classic meals
Vegetarian!
i like the clean eating plan!
Clean eating plan
I would go with the classic, looks really good and like food we would eat.
My favorite is the vegetarian but I’m also curious about the Clean one too.
I would love to try the Clean Eating plan, sounds right up my alley!
Either clean or gluten free would be awesome.
I had never heard of this place before. Thanks for sharing and hope I win.
I like the low fat meal plan.
We love the classic meals.
The clean eating plan looks perfect for me!
Classic meals — I have trouble convincing dh to eat meals without meat or dairy!
Simple gourmet – yum!
The classic looks like the best choice for my family.
I like the classic plan and the clean eating plan!
I think the classic meals look the best, but the portion control looks interesting too.
clean eating and low fat
Classic plan or clean eating plan
Low carb!
Wow. So hard to decide on a Meal Plan! I like the clean eating, paleo, simple gourmet & classic ones! If I win I guess I can narrow it down then
I like the clean eating meal plan.
I am currently on a low carb diet, so the Low Carb Meal Plan would be perfect for me!!!
I like the Paleo feature. I have to follow a gluten free diet and we follow the Paleo Diet in our home. It is hard to find a plan that has everything i need.
I would love the Clean Eating menu, but, I would probably go with the classic….more kid friendly.
I would definitely go with the gluten-free menu. Being gluten-free on a budget without boring yourself to death is definitely challenging and any help would be greatly appreciated. Plus, my friends use the classic menu and are always raving about it.
“For moms and wives” you say.. What makes it not for dads, husbands, and unmarried people? Is it cooking is women’s work? men stay out of the kitchen? unwed people shouldn’t have children? what?