Saving dinner with the Diner Diva?

Does anyone subscribe to this? If so, do you find it useful? Are most of the recipes to your liking??? Is it worth the money?

I am considering this (i definitely need SOME sort of help, things in my world have gotten way too chaotic) and would love any recommendations.

Thank you!
Melissa

What is Diner Diva?

Melissa,
I have been subscribing to Menu Mailer for over a year now, found her through FlyLady, and I love it. We switched to the Frugal version from the regular when it came out, and I haven't noticed a difference in taste at all, and as far as I know it is the same recipes as the regular mailer. The only thing I have found that I was not at all used to is that she uses very little beef. Most of the recipes are turkey, pork or chicken. I know that is healthier, but we are big red meat eaters. We also use white instead of brown rice. There have been only a couple recipes we skipped, and few that haven't been well received. I have to feed 6, on about 350$ a month, and after the first couple months, it did start to reflect a savings. The first couple months were hard, because alot of the spices weren't things I kept here, and they got expensive. I had always used powdered garlic and dehydrated minced onion, and now I can't imagine cooking with them :) I keep fresh garlic, and minced garlic in the fridge and buy diced onion in the freezer section to keep on hand.

She also hae a cookbook, Saving Dinner that has I believe 36 weeks worth of recipes. The grocery lists are on the website to print out. That is another thing that I LOVE... I combine the grocery list every month in microsoft word, (I shop a month at a time) print it out, add breakfast and lunch stuff and off to the store I go. I buy Milk about every other day, and we buy bread from the local bakery in bulk and store it in the deep freeze. Our only other grocery expenses are usually lunch stuff by the end of the month, and my 12 pack of Sunkist every 3 days LOL

I hope this helps, feel free to Dmail me if you like :)

Janis

Darius, go to http://www.savingdinner.com and check it out. It is a 6 day menu mailed to you weekly in your email. I can't remember how much it is, but it has been a life saver here. She (The dinner Diva is a woman named LeAnn Eli) has mailer for 2 or 6 people, regular, frugal and low carb. I can't remember the cost, but Isigned up for 3 months first then renewed for a year. We love it :)

Janis

Thanks, Janis. Probably not practical for me, cooking for just one. I did look at the sample menus and I'm such a picky eater I'd skip half, LOL. Sounds great for a big family and a busy mother.

LOL It is alot of help for me, with DR appts and therapy appts for my daughter, to not get home at 6 PM and be like $hit, I didn't get out nothing for dinner..... the pizza place here recognized my voice LOL they would literally say, the usual? it was funny but it wasn't if you know what I mean. My 14 yr old is pretty picky, but she does alot of mexican type stuff that he loves, he picked up a taste for it when he lived in AZ. That is probably my biggest vomplaint other than the beef. I am not a mexican eater. The re is a cookbook too, you could probably find it on Amazon or eBay pretty cheap... its just called Saving Dinner :)

Janis