Money Saving Mom®

We’re excited to have eMeals as one of our sponsors. We had the opportunity to interview them and get to know their company a little more recently:

What is the history behind eMeals?

eMeals was founded by Jane DeLaney & Jenny Cochran in 2003. Both Jane and Jenny are active moms, devoted wives, and very, very busy. Jane was frazzled over trying to pull off dinner for the family week after week. Her meal plans were scribbled on napkins and lost in her purse. So she went to work creating a better way to make meals happen. Along the way, Jane recruited Jenny, who is not only a fabulous cook, but also happens to be her sister.

Working with a talented team of meal planners, experienced home cooks and technical gurus, they developed eMeals to feed their families and preserve their sanity. Hundreds of thousands of relationships later, Jane and Jenny built a way to make moms’ lives easier — and to bring families together at mealtime.

What is eMeals?

eMeals offers over 50 weekly meal plans based on a user’s preferred food style, family size, and grocery store. Food styles include classic meals, clean eating, paleo, simple gourmet, low fat, low carb portion control, natural and organic, vegetarian, gluten-free, slow cooker, and our new 500 calorie plans.

We provide 7 simple to follow recipes with corresponding grocery lists each week. Meal plans are tied to the weekly sales and seasonal specials at selected grocery store chains. The result is our mass following of loyal customers who save time, money, and their sanity while providing delicious and healthy home cooked meals for their families.

Can you really save money by using eMeals?

The average eMeals customer says they save around $1,000/year on groceries, and that doesn’t even include all the time they save. And we all know time is money!

Over 50% of our customers have a targeted weekly budget for their grocery spending. We keep this in mind and try to structure our meal plans around seasonal specials and in the case of specific stores…we tailor the recipes to be based around the store specials.

Does eMeals have any new products or promotions coming up?

We just released our new 500 calorie plans, a new Publix Portion Control Meal Plan, as well as a new COSTCO Meal Plan. We are always looking to expand our meal plans to what our community tells us they need! We are happy to offer Money Saving Mom® readers 15% off with the coupon code DINNER15.

Are you involved in any charity work?

For five years, eMeals has been one of the largest funding sources for the Haiti Nutrition Project which is a program that curtails and reverses severe malnutrition within infants and children in Haiti. This program distributes Medika Mamba, which is a Haitian term for “peanut butter medicine,” a daily food supplement that provides complete nourishment needed for the growth and health of young Haitian children.

What would you most like your customers or future customers to know about your company?

We are a company based on the ideals of having dinner together as a family. That is such a valuable gift you can give to your children, your spouse, and anyone else that joins you at your table. We want to make it easier to facilitate dinner together as a family where connections and memories are made.

How can your customers get the most out of eMeals?

Sporadic grocery spending and multiple trips to the store is money down the drain. Having a plan, period, is what saves people the most money and controls spending. Having a consistent plan at your fingertips, ready to be shopped at a moments notice is GOLD. In comes eMeals.

Forgetting to bring your list to the store is also money down the drain. Eliminating that problem is gold too. In comes the companion eMeals app. Your list is always on your phone – ready when you are.

Useful tips:

• Determine how many meals you need for the week. There are seven meals on each week’s menu.
• The app can skip any of the meals you choose to not cook and it will automatically delete those items from the grocery list.
• Shop your stockpile first and delete items you may already have from the grocery list.
• Be sure to purchase the pantry staples that you may not have that are required for the meals you choose to cook.
• Stick to the list!

We also have not only dinner plans, but breakfast, lunch and dessert to help you get all your meals planned out with minimal effort. Use this tool to your advantage!

Is there anything else that you would like for MSM readers to know about eMeals?

eMeals is always adding more plans to meet the growing eating lifestyles that emerge. Paleo and Clean Eating are examples of that and happen to be two of our most popular plans! We would love to have Money Saving Mom® readers sign up for eMeals with the discount code DINNER15 for 15% off.

Interested in becoming a monthly sponsor or advertising with us? Find more details here.

I’ll be participating in a Live Chat about my new book, Say Goodbye to Survival Mode, this Thursday, March 6, 2014, at 2 pm EST/11 am PST. I’m excited to partner with Faith Gateway for this live chat opportunity.

On this chat, I’ll be sharing about some of the key lessons from my book, Say Goodbye to Survival Mode. Plus, we’ll open up the floor for any questions you have for me — on any topic! You’ll have an opportunity to ask questions live during the chat via Twitter with the hashtag #saygoodbyetosurvivalmode.

We’ll Be Talking About How To:

1. Feel healthy and more energetic by setting priorities and boundaries.
2. Eliminate stress with savvy management of your time, money and home.
3. Get more done by setting realistic goals and embracing discipline.
4. Rediscover your passions and the confidence to pursue them.

This chat will be packed with straightforward solutions you can use today!

How to Register

This Live Chat will be Thursday, March 6, 2014 at 2 pm EST/1 pm CST.

>>Register for FREE here now to participate in the live chat.<<

I’m so excited about how many of you are joining us for the 4 Weeks to a More Organized Home Challenge! If you missed today’s assignment, you can find it here.

We’re on the tail end of early Spring Break/vacation right now, so I actually wasn’t home today… but I did get dressed in an outfit I love, I did make a to do list, and I made out my list of 10 goals for this week.

And then before I left for vacation, I worked ahead on today’s projects…

The contents of my purse… I put away the hat and earrings, but everything went back in.

By the way, I have fallen in LOVE with zippered pouches — I use one for my coupons/gift cards and the other for all the odds and ends I like to carry (pens, head phones, mints, chapstick, lotion, hand sanitizer, etc.) It keeps things so much more organized and helps things not get lost at the bottom of my purse.

Speaking of the bottom of my purse, guess what I found there? Yikes!!

And here were the 7 things I found to get rid of. Some will go in the trash and the books will either be donated or passed onto a friend.

How you do on Assignment #1? I’d love to have you share your progress and success with us so we can be inspired. Either post a link to your blog post below or leave a comment with your update.