Easy Meals for Busy Families – My Honest eMeals Review

Are You Looking for Easy Meals to Make for Dinner?

In today’s time starved world, we are all looking for ways to make life easier.  Even though it sounds appealing to have someone give you a life hack for getting dinner on the table, you don’t really want to take a chance in this area.

Instead you want something you can count on working and that has been seriously vetted as a product or service before you spend your hard earned money on it. That is why we have our “Make Life Easier Series”. The series covers three areas where you want to make life easier- clothes, meal planning, and finances.

I’m assuming you want to save money, time and still eat well?  Yes, yes and yes!  Right? You are smart to eat at home as often as you can. And planning meals makes it even easier to do so.

It so easy to fall into the trap of going out to eat all the time. However, it is a trap to avoid, because it costs a lot of money to eat out. Also depending where you go to eat, it could even take longer by the time you drive there and wait than eating at home.

Not to mention, dining out may not be as good as eating at home.  Fast food might be quick but it lacks in the real nutrition and taste department sometimes.

“eMeals – Meal Planning Made Simple”

Enter easy meals and plans from eMeals.  eMeals is a service you sign up for online.  You pay a small monthly fee. It is currently $4.99 a month when you sign up for a year. (I am not an affiliate for eMeals – the disclaimer on here for being an affiliate is for Amazon, which I am an affiliate for).

Once you sign up, you receive 7 days worth of menus per week (that is less than 20 cents per meal for the recipe and shopping list per meal for a months worth of 28 meals on average). 

You choose from a bunch of different types of subscriptions based on your favorite type of meals. They have:

• Quick and healthy
• Budget-friendly
• Kid-friendly
• Clean eating
• Low carb
• Keto
• 30 Minutes 

We use the 30 minute meal plan for 4 people.  We use this one because we have 4 people in our household and not a lot of time to cook at night. 

Once you are signed up, you receive the week’s menus on Wednesday via your email address and the app.

How Does eMeals Work to Create Easy Meals?

Emeals has a handy app you can download on your phone to save even more time. You can also print out the recipe and shopping list from your email from them. 

The eMeals app has my easy meals in it to choose from for the week.  You read the recipe and decide if you want to make it. 

If you do, you click the add to list icon and it adds all the ingredients to a list.  You repeat this process for the rest of the week. There is usually a main dish and a side dish for each day for the dinner portion as well, which I truly appreciate. 

When you are done selecting your meals, you go through the shopping list and click on the items you already have (checking off that they are “done”).  Whatever else you may need is then pushed to your shopping app of choice.

They work with most of the major grocery chains. For example, they offer integration with Kroger, Walmart, Aldi, Publix, Meijer, Target, etc.. You just click on shop now after you have made your list.

Finalizing Your Meals with the Store’s App

Now that you have the items over to the store’s app to select, you choose the item from the sites list (quantity and price are shown).  Most stores will have a running total for you as well.  When you are all done selecting your items, you select your time to pick up or deliver.

Once you have received your items, you can now pat yourself on the back.  You now have a week’s worth of easy meals for a fraction of the cost of eating out.

You have also saved yourself at least 2 hours of time. I estimate it takes at least an hour for me to do meal planning and another hour to do the actual grocery shopping (and that is being generous – probably takes longer). 

Now all you have to do is cook the (in my case) 30 minute meals and watch your family gobble it down.

My Review of eMeals

We liked our dinner meal plan so much, we added the lunch and breakfast options as well.  Although, I don’t use them as often as the dinner one, just because I sometimes run out of time to make them all. 

However, it is well worth the small cost to have these ideas at my finger tips when I do have the time to make them.  The healthy lunch option has 5 meals for the week plus a dessert.

The healthy breakfast option has 5 meals as well.  For all of the meal plans (breakfast, lunch and dinner) if you find recipes you or your family love, you can save these to your favorites.  In addition, detailed instructions are included with each recipe and they are easy to understand.

For me, eMeals is so convenient and a real time saver.  I like that we are using real food and I know what goes into our meals.  If you would like to sign up, click here.  (I am NOT an affiliate, I just love their service).  And, you can try it for FREE for two weeks too!

What do you think?  Is this something you have tried or would like to try? What are your favorite meal planning tips?  Please share in the comments below.   If you liked this article, you might also like this article on why meal planning makes sense for busy people.

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