Day 2 of eMeals clean eating

[womet]

We bought the groupon and started yesterday. Dinner was salmon with cilantro and parsley rub, herbed couscous. Tonight was flank steak and French potato salad (we added a veg to this). So far, I have really enjoyed the meals.

[80sjunkie]

I didn't see this groupon... I've been feeling pretty lazy lately so this would be right up my alley. I just ate two slices of costco peperoni pizza. That's the extent of my cooking these days.

[Deleted]

How much was it? Did it come frozen?

[womet]

It's still available: www.groupon.com/deals/emeals-baltimore

And you can choose other options if clean eating isn't what you're interested in following. For $29, we figured that it was less than $3 a month and would give us other options. I really loved the French potato salad tonight; it never dawned on me that I could make potato salad while DH was cooking our protein.

[Deleted]

Glad you're enjoying the meals, I bought the groupon too. I'm starting it as soon as I'm home from vacation.

[chessie]

Enjoying those recipes as well. Living social had a deal as well few weeks back, they have the deal a lot 29 for the year. DH and I are enjoying all of them last month.

[Deleted]

Oh duh, it's meal planning. I thought I knew that. Thanks for the link.

[womet]

We swapped the salmon and steak since the salmon needed to marinate for 2 hours. We made the steak marinade last night. It was so tender. A definite keeper.

[ijack]

Good to hear, I'm starting next week!

[womet]

I could easily see this feeding all 3 of you, domer. If Joseph is picky, that's the only thing I can see working against you.

[womet]

We are doing the plan for just 2 people. But tonight's dinner had a lot of meat, so we have some left over. We also added a vegetable, because I felt weird not having one with the meal.

[kelly072206]

I looked over the sample clean eating menu on their website and it looks tasty, but I feel like I would end up spending a lot of money on ingredients I dont have on hand and/or wouldn't use frequently like nicoise olives, capers, etc. Has this been an issue for you yet?

[definitelyO]

those sound good. good for you!

[womet]

Jun 26, 2012 10:57:23 GMT -5 kelly072206 said:

I looked over the sample clean eating menu on their website and it looks tasty, but I feel like I would end up spending a lot of money on ingredients I dont have on hand and/or wouldn't use frequently like nicoise olives, capers, etc. Has this been an issue for you yet?

I don't like olives or capers, so we have decided to try to make 3-4 of the meals per week. That gives us a night for pizza, a night out, and 1-2 nights of making our favorites. So if there is something that we're :::meh::: about, we'll skip it.

[hopecounts]

I'm looking at doing the clean living e-meals, do you mind giving me an estimate on what the grocery bill was?
I'm a SAHM and trying to decide if it fits in the budget, or if we should go with the regular meal plan for 2.

[80sjunkie]

I'm still torn on this because what I really liked was that they would make meals that take into account what is on sale at a particular store, but the meal plan I am interested in (clean eating) doesn't seem to do that.

[womet]

We probably spent $90 for the week, but I didn't have some of the staples. You can switch meal plans but after a month.

[Deleted]

Jun 27, 2012 11:14:55 GMT -5 swizzlestx said:

Can I switch the different type of subscription, or am I stuck with Clean Eating, or whatever for the whole year?

You can switch once a month I think.

[carfar]

Are you on the two person plan? How is portioning? Do you have leftovers? Are you still hungry? Usually if I plan 7 days of meals it's too much food and there is no chance to eat the left overs...