Anyone ever use "Food on the Table"?

[kahn265]

Even though my sweetie has gotten the required score on the GRE and is no longer doing heavy studying, she will be going to grad school next year to get her PhD. This will put me back into the shopping/cooking camp.

I'm looking at this to simplify - anyone use it? Thoughts?

http://www.foodonthetable.com/

['Roos]

I've never used it, but I do remember my mum planning meals every week - she would do a different protein every day (monday = chicken, tuesday = pork, wednesday = beef, thursday = something ground, friday = fish, saturday = vegetarian something, sunday = wildcard) and had four or five recipes of each which she would rotate through. Each recipe had a lot of ingredients which could get reused each week (spices, mustard, etc) and so the shopping list would be vegetables, one of each protein, and grains ('cause this was pre-low carb'ville). Dunno if this would be applicable/interesting to you, but I figured I'd offer it.

[hfurm]

I have no experience with Food on the Table, but I did subscribe to The Scramble ( http://thescramble.com/ ) for about 8 months starting in January last year. Every week, I received several recipes for the week. Given that I was only cooking for myself and my husband, we usually picked 3 meals that would provide leftovers, which lasted through the week and provided 1 night out. Using this service, I finally learned the awesomeness of grocery shopping for 1 week of meals every Sunday. I stopped my Scramble subscription after I began to eat less and less breads/tortillas/pasta, but the lessons learned stuck. I still plan out our meals for the week and quite enjoy my weekly grocery shopping trip.

[citabean]

Huh! I've never even heard of these. Generally I do my own weekly menu planning. I look at what's on sale, buy it and come up with a menu plan based around what I bought and what I have on hand. Generally I search for new things to try.

Both sites look interesting.

[Crooked]

I've never heard of those, but they look helpful. I'm making more of an effort to do meal planning so I don't fall back on the same few foods over and over again. Tools to facilitate getting more organized are generally a good thing (unless you use them to procrastinate actually getting things done, as I am occasionally wont to do).

[kahn265]

For what it's worth...there is also a Paleo version

http://www.paleoplan.com/

[kahn265]

BUT, I found what I'm going to use!

http://mealfire.com

Now I just need a way to pull those recipes to "My Fitness Pal"

*EDIT*

Copy and paste ingredients here for recipe nutrition calculations

http://caloriecount.about.com/cc/recipe_analysis.php