This giveaway is now closed! Congratulations to #332 Stacey (twinkledust) who is the winner of this software!
The Dinner Solution: Menu Planning and Freezer Cooking Made Simple is a unique meal planning program that allows you to plan out your meals on a calendar and print custom grocery lists. With a few clicks of your mouse, you can plan out a week of meals in minutes.
PROGRAM’S FEATURES
- Plan your dinners and side dishes out on our calendar a week or a month at a time
- Easily enter any of the recipes or menus from $5 Dinners!
- Add your own recipes or use the family-friendly recipes we’ve already included!
- With the click of a button, print a complete grocery list — sorted by store aisle and store name!
- Print a “What’s For Dinner” fridge report so you and your family can easily see what’s on the menu that week!
- Do your own at-home Freezer Meal assembly sessions in a snap!
- And more!
Using The Dinner Solution for just 10 minutes a week, you can easily:
- Save hundreds of dollars a year on your grocery bill
- Save hundreds of hours a year of your precious time
- Feed your family healthier home-cooked meals (and lose weight if you need to!)
- Reduce your stress level – meal planning actually becomes fun!
The system makes it so easy to get dinner on the table, you will wonder how you ever managed without it!!!
In this week’s giveaway, one lucky winner will receive a free copy of The Dinner Solution software, a $59.95 value. Also, the lovely ladies at The Dinner Solution are offering all $5 Dinners readers a 25% Discount, a savings of $15! Just enter 5DD25 at checkout for your discount!
Giveaway Details
1. Contest ends Wednesdsy, May 20th at 5 pm EST. Winner will be announced back here on this post.
2. Entry #1: Leave a comment just saying you want to win.
3. Entry #2: Leave a SEPARATE comment telling me in what way you promoted this contest (i.e., posting it in a forum, posting about it on your blog, Twitter about it, and/or subscribe to my feed by email or in a reader).
4. Entry #3: In another separate comment, let me know a little about your biggest struggle or success with meal planning.
5. Winner will be selected by Random.org.
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I really really reallllly want to win!!!
My biggest struggle would have to be time. I simply do not have time as a full time working mom. My other problem is sticking to it once I plan it out.
Wow! That software sounds awesome. I could really use it.
I put it on my Facebook!
Struggle… making the same thing every week…
Or trying to eat healthy and realizing that it’s often cheaper to eat less than healthy!!!
I twittered about the contest
I have tried menu planning with recipe software – frustrating!! I have also menu planned with pencil and paper which takes forever. It also takes many cookbooks and much, much time. I usually planned and afternoon for planning.
Entry chance #1–I would love to win!!!
I’d love to win this!
ME ME ME!!!!
My biggest challenge is the cooking day. We love to spend Sunday’s cooking. We make our own baby food (did for both kids) and we’ve made batches of freezer foods before, but it’s been your general things like chili, spaghetti, and some casseroles. I struggle with how you come up w/ different things for each week, not repeating ‘like’ stuff. If that makes sense…. Like, if you plan a meal around chicken quesadillas, are you only preparing the ‘insides’, etc? I suppose so you but you see my points, I hope.
oh i would love to win this.
right now, my biggest problem with meal planning is getting good deals and getting my freezer and all stocked up so I can plan earlier in the week.
and planning things that the whole family will eat without any problems.
I posted a few updates about you and the contest….I’m on Twitter as Grits414!
Oooh! I would love to win!
I want to win! Mom to 5 sons. homeschoolering. living with breast cxancer. food must be easy and nutritious; a difficult combination some days.
I would love to win.
Sounds great! Sign me up please.
What a great giveaway! Would LOVE LOVE LOVE to win this one!!
I lvoe being able to menu for my family. I can then budget exactly what I need at the store and am not doing the night “what am I going to make for dinner tonight” dance. I don’t always follow the menu to the letter for every night, but since I know that I have everything in the pantry, fridge, or freezer that I need I can make anything off of it any night of the week. I love the freedom that allows!!
I want to win this program!! I need something like this!
I want to win! I have been following your site for a month or so now and it has become a go-to for my biweekly meal planning. Thanks for the great giveaway!
I WANNNNNNNNNNNAAA WIN!
I tweeted.
I started meal planning a couple of months ago. I’d always resisted meal planning, siting “how can I know what I want for dinner next week?” How foolish I was! I meal plan a week in advance and post it on my blog. I’ve discovered a number of benefits: 1. Being able to plan my grocery shopping and therefore never wanting to make something and not having the right ingredients 2. My daughter and I have been doing Weight Watchers and I’ve lost 22 lbs. and she’s lost 12 lbs! 3. I can try out new recipes all the time (which I love to do!). Basically, I dig meal planning!
I blogged about it here http://oneretromama.blogspot.com/2009/05/dinner-solution-software-giveaway.html
I want to win!
My biggest struggle with meal planning is deciding what to make and then figuring what I need for the week.
I would like to win this meal planning software.
I posted it on Facebook!
My biggest srtuggle with meal planning is food allergies and Celiac disease. My 7 year old son and I are Celiacs. He also has an allergy to corn. My 11 year old daughter is allergic to wheat (not a Celiac), peanuts, tree nuts, citrus and pumpkin. I need to ensure they are getting adequate nutrition in their picky eating ways.
I would love to win this! i used to use a meal planning software but it was pre-XP and the company stopped making it so no support for getting it running without bumps.
I want to win. I heard about you on one of my groups and a giveaway was the first thing I saw…how great is that?
I would LOVE to win this!
Great way to save money! Want to win!!
I want to win!
I *twittered* about my excitement about this contest- which also went on my Facebook page! I am one of your followers on twitter.
I wanna WIN:)
I could use this program myself, it would simplify things so much in the house. I love to cook but some nights I want the night off, thats where hubby steps in and makes meat with meat on the side! ugh! This would definitely help him help me!!
I really struggle with meal planning because I don’t always know what I have and alot of times I think I have something that I don’t and is a main ingredient to the recipe. I’m also a by how I feel cook, and that isn’t good for my family. My husband can’t read minds and he doesn’t know how to cook anything other than meat on the grill!!
My oldest daughter is 12 and it is time that she started learning about menu planning, shopping, and making sure you have ingredients on hand.
Thanks for doing the giveaway!!
My biggest struggle with meal planning is that I’m trying to lose weight and need to plan a meal that’s good for my weight loss but also something the whole family will enjoy and it also needs to be a quick meal.
I am now an email subscriber!
One of my struggles is to try to work in my meal planning with the food storage that I’m also building- using what I have in order to rotate and coming up with ways to use it. I started off well at the beginning of the year but need to get back on top of things again- especially with our 4th child coming at the end of summer! I know I save more time when I have things planned out in advance instead of taking all day long to think of what I can make that we already have all the ingredients for since I only grocery shop once a week. HELP PLEASE!
Entry #1
Thanks for the opportunity. It sounds like I could really use this in my weekly menu planning. Hope I win!
Entry #2
I subscribe to your blog in Google Reader–I see everything you write and I love all the tips.
Entry #3
The area I need to improve in is planning my weekly meals around what’s on sale. I usually just plan what I’m in the mood for or what will fit in with my other commitments during the week. I think if I used what was on sale in the weekly circulars I could save much more money.
I would love to win!
My biggest struggle with menu planning is what to make, that’s cost efficient and can make at least 2 meals out of it.
I could SO use this! My fingers are totally crossed!
I tweeted the word! http://twitter.com/MommyImHungry/status/1830467948
Oh my, I would love to win this! Thanks for the chance!!
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