I recently subscribed to three months of eMeals. A friend told me about it and at the time, it was exactly what I needed. A week of meals emailed to me with a grocery list. Quick and easy. They have many different meal plans but I went with their Clean Eating option.
For the first couple of months, we really enjoyed it. The meals were tasty, easy to prepare and healthy. I briefly tried their Low Carb option as well as their Natural and Organic (which didn’t seem to be much of either) but preferred the Clean Eating.
It’s a great service but I cancelled my subscription. Of the menu they sent each week, I maybe used 3 or 4 out of the 7 meals. Some of them were things we wouldn’t enjoy and I don’t cook curry at home. There seemed to be a lot of curry dishes…I felt like some of the meals were not meals but side dishes. I also ended up having to doctor a few of them because they had no flavor. Clean Eating does not have to equal boring.
This was one of the dishes I made last week – a zucchini frittata. Their idea was good but I jazzed it up with more fresh herbs. I also wish I hadn’t cooked them in the ramekin like they suggested. A muffin tin would have been better. We scrubbed those things for a week! For sides, I did sausage links and a fruit salad topped with agave, lemon juice and fresh mint.
This was a quinoa dish with chicken, peas, asparagus and mint. I cooked the chicken on the side instead and left out the peas because I didn’t have any. It was very fresh and pretty good.
One meal was a risotto. No meat, that was it. The risotto was really good and I was pretty proud of myself for my first ever attempt. But as an entree? It would not have been enough for us. I made it a side and cooked up some salmon as well. A lovely pairing.
Another meal were turkey sliders. Fun idea that I turned into my take on the Magic ‘Shroom Burger from Hopdoddy minus the “shroom”. These were really good!
In conclusion, eMeals is a great idea and service. They recently launched an app and a menu of crockpot meals. You can also add on lunch and breakfast menus. I definitely appreciated it for getting me out of my menu/grocery list rut but will be going back to my old menu making ways (Pinterest and Clean Eating Magazine). If you decide to try it out, check out retailmenot.com for a coupon code.
Elizabeth Hafner 