Yesterday, I came across a wonderful sounding offer from LivingSocial Deals titled "12 Months of Meal Planning". I'm a bit ashamed to admit it, but I stink at planning meals. Even for the day of with everything we have. I usually settle for Hamburger or Tuna Helper, or cereal. So, I really liked this idea. I looked at their website eMeals and slowly fell in love with what I was seeing.
Before agreeing and paying for the service (half price through the LS Deal), I asked Harry what he thought of it. He enthusiastically agreed, and we signed up for it.
It was easy to sign up, and quickly received emails from them containing my weekly Dinner Meal plan as well as a Lunch Meal plan (which costs just a bit extra).
So today we went grocery shopping with the lists that came with the plans. It took a long time to find all of the different ingredients. We're familiar with our store, but not for all the lists were asking for. Even though it took a while, we were both excited to try all of the new dishes. Once we were done shopping, got home, and put everything away, we decided to try out one of the dishes.
The dish we tried was called Caribbean Shrimp and rice. We couldn't find Zatarain's Caribbean rice mix, so we got Jambalaya rice mix instead. It called for raw shrimp that needed to be added to the rice just before the rice finished cooking. eMeals suggested a fruit salad on the side made of mangoes, pears, oranges, and strawberries. It was the first time I've ever cut up mangoes, and I don't look forward to doing that again any time soon.
The dinner was really good. I know that sounds simple, but it really was. I look forward to trying more recipes from eMeals again and highly recommend them to anyone who gets frazzled trying to come up with dinner week after week.
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| Jambalaya Shrimp and Rice with Fruit Salad |
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