Another post where I mention the blog conference. Sorry, some great things really do happen there (I just need to find time to share all of it).
Before the conference officially started, I was invited to learn more about a new company, ZipList. I heard a bit about them from my friend, Erin of Coupon Cravings, and was excited at the little bit she was able to share. I am SO excited for this product for many reasons, but first let me share what it is.
ZipList is a FREE online service to help you with efficiency at the grocery store. There is a Universal Recipe Box that allows you to save your favorite recipes from various websites. You can quickly add the ingredients to your online grocery list which is accessible online or via phone. That’s that in a nutshell, but there’s more…
There is also a texting feature. If you have a grocery item you need to add to your list, you can text ZipList. Through magic (and fairies, I’m sure there are fairies), ZipList adds the item to your list immediately. Your shopping list is also categorized automatically (i.e., dairy, canned, etc). That is SO nice to help you get in and out of the store more quickly. And with kids, you KNOW we need to go as fast as we can :)
There is also a ZipList iPhone app in the works. I’m so excited about this! While you can print out your list, I really do love taking advantage of the efficiencies technology offers. I do like to make any lists on my computer because it’s faster than entering via my iPhone. But, when I shop I can have my list and check off what I’ve bought. I’m such a list follower in that way. And, let’s face it when we use coupons we gotta be – it’s part of planning which is integral in saving the most!
The other part I mentioned that I think you will really love is the Universal Recipe Box. I created the Virtual Recipe Box google doc last year as a way to help me personally manage my fave recipes from all over the web. Well, ZipList will do it FOR YOU and has great features to help with efficiency. With the ZipList Recipe Clipper, you can enter any recipe found online (like my Homemade Noodles possibly) to your personal recipe box. There are already thousands of recipes included in the ZipList searchable recipe database, but it’s nice to have the option to add your own!
I think the Universal Recipe Box will allow me to menu plan more effectively. I’m not sure *exactly* how the process will look for me yet since I need to load all of my recipes. But, the “Add to List” feature will help save time since I can quickly add missing recipe ingredients to my grocery list.
I really could go on and on, but I would encourage you to check out ZipList for yourself. I really do think this will save you a lot of time as you create your shopping list and saving your favorite recipes. And, the fact that they are engaging bloggers to find efficiencies in what we do, and how you as readers (or me, as a user) would use ZipList, makes me even more excited.
As a heads up, here will be an official ZipList Twitter Party in March! As soon as I have more details, I will be sure to share with you as well!
**Giveaway now ended**
With all of THAT, I have five (5) Zip List Gift Packs to give away! Each gift pack includes a Blue Avocado Gro Pak Chill Insulated Grocery Bag (as shown above – so awesome too) and a copy of Martha Stewart’s newest cookbook, Everyday Food: Fresh Flavor Fast.
As a side note, ZipList was a sponsor of the Savvy Blogging dinner, and they gave attendees the Blue Avocado bags. They are completely awesome and will definitely be used as I shop with my ZipList!!
Disclaimer: This post contains a link to an affiliate. See my Disclaimer Policy for additional information.
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I love Martha Stewart and this bag. WOW!
Thanks.
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My biggest challenge with menu planning is living with two grown men who don’t decide what they want until the last minute. I love them, but yikes!
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My biggest challenges to menu planning is sticking to it! Most times I’ll have a meal planned but at the last minute won’t feel like making that particular meal, or one of my children will ask for something different and I’ll concede, or we’ll be running late and I won’t be able to make that meal in time. I’m sure I could go on forever.
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My biggest challenge is actually that we end up with too many leftovers. I get meat out to thaw, and then realize we really don’t need it as there are still leftovers in the fridge.
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I try to use what we have in the pantry that I got good deals on but can never seem to make a whole meal out of them and random things get left off the list time and time again. It took me forever to finally use a box of Betty Crocker garlic potatoes. I need to only buy what works in a meal! Even if it’s a good deal. :)
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My biggest challenge in menu planning is sticking to it!
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My biggest challenges are getting to the grocery and switching meals up to keep everyone wanting to eat. Things can get boring and everyone starts rebeling dinner!
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My biggest challenge is finding quick healthy meals that my 14 month old twins and my husband and I will eat!
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I’m a subscriber
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I subscribe – brodysmommy2002@hotmail.com
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My biggest challenge is just to make myself take the time to do it. I have tons of recipes and I just need to find a way to get organized enough to put it all together quickly.
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My biggest challenge is a husband who does NOT like vegetables and I don’t care for pasta, so we have to compromise and tend to eat alot of the same things, week after week.
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Followed Ziplist and tweeted: @busyathome
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Posted on my Facebook wall:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Busy-at-Homecom/297209177842
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my challenge is that I don’t take the time to menu plan…then I find myself scrounging the kitchen at 5:00 for something quick to make for dinner.
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I’m also an email subscriber
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My biggest challenge is thinking of something new to make. I find myself getting into ruts and making the same things over and over again. The recipe feature of ziplist looks great, I can’t wait to try it. Thanks!
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I am a subscriber
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My biggest challenge is that Im vegetarian, Gluten free (celiac disease), and my husband is extremely picky. Menu planning in normally based on what on sale. But I have a hard time locating and organizing my recipe as well. It all needs to be orchestrated just right.
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My biggest challenge is simply coming up with recipes to make! I’ve been married for almost 7 months now, and I just don’t have a large repertoire of recipes to pull from for each week, and I dont want to be making the same things all the time. I have to tap many online resources to find new yummy recipes, and I’ve slowly been able to add things to my list.
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I’m also a subscriber through Google Reader
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Im going to check out ziplist right now. It seems to cover all my problems, recipe locations and grocery lists. I like to make my meal plans around sale items.
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My biggest challenge with menu planning would be my husband. I just have to hope and pray he’s okay with what I’m cooking on a particular day. Sometimes he just not in the mood for somethings.
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I subscribe to your daily email!
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My biggest challenge is time. Between work and school activities, any plan I have often goes out the window
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Sounds like exactly what I need!
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I sent the following tweet on twitter!!!
@MommySnacks is offering a great @ZipList Gift Pack Giveaway. 5 Winners! Stop by to enter @ http://bit.ly/8YaCEB
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My biggest challenge is me. I’m too stinkin’ lazy to put a menu together!
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My biggest challenge is that it seems I keep making the same thing over and over. I told myself this week I will start introducing two new meals everyweek. Ok….maybe thats pushing it but I will definately do one.lol
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Tweeted: http://twitter.com/LittleBitJen/status/9288217361
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My biggest challenge of menu planning at home is that I do it everyday for work. So by the time I sit down to do it at home – I am completely out of ideas. One might say, why not use the same menu from work? Answer – money. The work budget is a bit nicer than the home budget :)
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I also subscribe through email.
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No one in my family is picky (lucky me!), so my biggest problem is me. I only want to cook what I feel like eating that night. Love the bag–sooo cute.
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My biggest challange is time, variety & cost.
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My biggest menu challenge is finding a food that both my husband and I can eat on the nights we are both home (I have food allergies). Another challenge is finding the right portions, as it is just the two of us.
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I get via rss!
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I subscribe also!
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Tweeted as well – @commkel
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Tweeted by @happylhomemaker.
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This bag is so cute and a I love Martha Stewart.
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my biggest challenge has to be menu planning around my 3 years old son. he’s such a picky eater..
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tweeted and followed via @4evamamii
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Posted on my facebook wall
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/Miss.Brooks9?ref=mf
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I posted about this giveaway on FB.
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I subscribe to your daily email
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My biggest challenge to menu planning is preparing something my 3-year old twins will eat that I still consider healthy….and not having the same thing night after night!
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My biggest challenge is getting enough variety for my husband and myself while still serving things our 3 and 1 year olds will eat.
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Time is always a battle when trying to get supper on the table. I usually have my shopping done, but the transition from pantry to table is where I run into problems. I LOVE Martha Stewart cook books!!
PS Thanks for the tip on zip list app for Iphone. I hope you’ll remind us when it’s available.
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My challenge is making sure that enough veggies are being consumed.
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Posted on my facebook wall.
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My biggest challenge is having 3 different tastes in our family of just 3. My daughter is a picky eater, my husband loves super spicy, and I seem to be stuck in the middle.
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Definitely organization.
iluvchrisnlevi@aol.com
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Lord knows I need ALL the help I can get when it comes to menu planning. I mean, it normally goes like this: Mon-Cracker Barrell, Tues-Skyline, Wed: Hubs is tired of eating out so swings by the grocery store to buy random groceries!
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I subscribe. Because I’m cool like that.
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I even follow @ZipList on Twitter!
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I’m not organized enough and can’t seem to find the time either. I’ll check out this website.
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I put the status on my Facebook wall!
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SOOO cool. I was just talking to my mom about wishing there was some sort of iPhone app for something like this that I could input on my computer and sink with my phone.
The biggest challenge for me is getting it all organzied. I started this month with a meal calendar and it really has helped me be able to see in advance what supplies I need and don’t need, when to lay out my meat, etc. It just takes sooo long. I love, lovel, love to cook. I hate to make the grocery list part!
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I already subscribe to the feed. You are one among many but probably my FAVE. And no, I am not fishin’ for a win. I just tend to get more out of yours than others!
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TWEETED – http://www.twitter.com/mudcakeoriginals
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it’s on the facebook wall as well…=)
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SWEET. Just sent you a handful of new readers from my playgroup because I posted this on our message boards as well!
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My biggest problem is picky eaters, lack of time and last minute changes. I have a almost 2yr old who is very pick and a husband who never can make up his mind. With the two of them and a newborn at home I something to help me out.
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My biggest challenge is trying to get in the habit of menu planning.
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My biggest challenge is our family’s schedule. I work a full-time job from 9-5 Mon thru Fri and a part-time job 5-9 Thurs-Sat. We also host a bible study at our home on Monday evenings. As such, though we love having family meals and strive to sit at the table together as often as possible, family sit-down meals only happen on Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights. On the nights I’m working, my husband and daughter tend to “fend” with leftovers, soup, sandwiches and other easy things.
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I learned about Ziplist from a fellow blogger early this week and than saw all the posts about it. I’m following Ziplist on Twitter and have already started my Harris Teeter Super Doubles shopping list on Ziplist! What a great concept!
Tweet … tweet! I shared on Twitter … http://twitter.com/mmartinpeterpan/status/9293261902
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I shared on Facebook!
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I love menu planning, it helps so much in saving time to not have to decide every day what’s for dinner. My biggest issue would probably be having variety in recipes at hand. In order to have the recipes to go through I would have to tote magazines, cookbooks and recipe cards to my computer. It would be so nice to have everything right on hand.
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I tweeted – http://twitter.com/merlimom
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I receive your daily emails.
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Thanks for sharing this new idea with us! After I make my list, I always re-write it in categories (or in order of aisles I shop first to last). If I had a smartphone, I would love the feature of using your phone for your list. I’m all about using less paper.
My biggest problem with meal planning is that I need to plan for the month and not just the week. I think I would save $ and time this way.
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My biggest challenge is menu planning. I spend 2 to 3 hrs each week coming up with a menu and we still don’t have enough to get through the week.
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I also subscribe with google reader
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My biggest challenge with meal planning is time! I work full time and have a toddler, so time is always lacking.
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My biggest challenge is finding the time to do it , I have 7 kids so there is hardly any time to do anything!
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My biggest challenge is on the days when I work until 6:30 then I have to hurry home and fix dinner.
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biggest challenges to menu planning for me are organization and time
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My biggest issue with menu planning is knowing what I actually have and trying to figure out what to make with all the stuff I have gotten cheap at the store. It’s putting it all together that is hard!
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My biggest challenge is I love cookbooks! I read them like novels. So, I have a hard time deciding what to cook. Then when I do decide sometimes the time gets away from me. I’ll have all the ingredients and no time to make it. I freeze what I can to make it at a later date. My husbands only complaint is that I hardly ever make the same thing twice. He says that when I make something he loves I never make it again. It’s usually because I can’t remember which recipe I used or where I got it from.
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I receive your daily emails — love your blog!
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Thank you so much for the giveaway!!
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I am following on Twitter!!
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I receive your daily emails.
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My biggest issue in meal planning is having a type 1 diabetic in the family. We try to cut out as many carbs as we can so he can dose less.
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My biggest challenge would be meal planning. Having to lug out all my favorite recipes and cookbooks, sit down and write what I need from each one on a list, remember to bring the list to the store etc…
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My biggest challenges are time and trying to come up with some new ideas so no one gets bored of the same meals.
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I am an e mail subscriber.
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my biggest challenge is organization when I go shopping I know what is on sale and have coupons but I do not organize meals for the week so when I get home I realize I have forgotten half of my meal items.
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My biggest challenge with menu planning is my work scedule. I work M-Th 6:30-6:30. So if all the planning, grocery shopping, and chopping isn’t done on the weekend we don’t eat anything other than frozen pizza all week.
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my biggest challenge is time, I am a working mom and everyone is hungry the minute they walk in the door…
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i just subscribed to your blog via email, looking foward to getting them daily…
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Organizing is the biggest catch for me. But when I don’t plan and I stand there at the fridge wondering what I am going to make that night, I could kick myself!!
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I have such a hard time getting meals on the table without sending my husband to the store for those “items” that I forgot!
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My biggest issue is getting home at 6:15 and having to start dinner. I need quick recipes or recipes that I can prep the ingredients the night before.
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My biggest hurdle in menu planning is time…..it always seems to take forever to get a well-thought plan in place.
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I already follow Ziplist and I tweeted the giveaway.
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I spread info about the giveaway on Facebook!
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I just subscribed to your email
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i just posted your link on my fb status
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I have a hard time sticking to a plan. I usually make a list of 7-10 options and stick it on the fridge. We also get tired of having the same thing all the time.
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The hardest part for me is pairing ingredients together. I substitute a lot!
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I’m an RSS subsriber.
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My biggest challenge is motivation and making the time to do it. Usually I end up writing a list of possible meals on the fridge and then whatever I feel like cooking that day…
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I love that bag. It would be so great to have one. And a Martha Sterwart cookbook..
WoooHooo! I have trouble with the planning, which means trouble with the rest!
Help!
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I posted on my facebook and I am a subscriber. That bag is super cute!
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My biggest problem with menu planning is finding the time. With three little ones it’s hard to sit down and get it all done.
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My biggest challenge is that I plan the meals around our hectic schedule, but the schedule is ever changing. So, on a day i think i have time to make a nicer meal, inevitably, something changes at the last minute and we have to eat on the run!!! Which is ok unless you were using a lot of fresh items…i hate it when they go to waste!
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I subscribe via email.
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I subscribe to your emails.
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My biggest challenge in menu planning is changing up our meals. We all get tired of the same old thing and love trying new recipes but sometimes it is hard to find the time to search out new recipes (and find ones we will like to eat!)
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My biggest challenge to menu planning is finding the time to plan – to cut coupons, make lists, shop and cook!
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It’s a challenge to try to plan menus for two!
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My biggest challenge is time and orgnization. I have 3 kiddos under age 3 and so I have to plan carefully!
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my biggest challenge is providing variety, and remembering to buy the things I need from the grocery store!
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I already subscribe to your newsletter and updates. I will be checking into the zip list…sounds cool. Time management…and the recipe option really neat. Enter me into the giveaway.
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I subscribe via email.
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My husband is only home two nights a week so I always make sure I have something planned those nights. When it’s just me and the kids, they are happy with cereal, toast, any breakfast food. My biggest issue is time, working fulltime and getting home at 500 makes cooking very difficult.
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current email subscriber
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Oh…I’m gonna check out ziplist as soon as I’m done with this comment. My biggest challenge is sticking to a menu plan, and coming up with good receipes that are quick and family/kid friendly.
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I tweeted about this great giveaway! Awesome!
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My biggest challenge to menu planning is I don’t always have time to research the best meal options based on the ingredients in my pantry. I like to buy sale items (with coupons), so I work around that. I just need to be more creative on my own and not be afraid to “go beyond the norm” of standard meal prep. Thanks!
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My biggest challenge of a menu plan is making the time to do it! I am a married, mom of 3. I work full-time outside of the home, my kids range in age from 3 to 18 and one is always running somewhere, (dance, baseball, afterschool activities, etc.) so I NEVER have time to actually sit down and menu plan, and if I do, I am ALWAYS missing 1 ingredient. I wish I had time and should make time, but can’t seem to.
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I get emails
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Menu Planning – what’s that? I can’t manage to plan much more than 2 days ahead of time!
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I subscribe to your emails.
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Menu planning is horrible for me. I can usually put something in the fridge the night before to thaw, but more than one day planning always is my downfall.
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My biggest challenge is remembering the grocery list! I always make a list, because I forget things I need, then I get to the store, and see I forgot the list!
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My biggest problem is time – or lack of it – would be a better way to put it!
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I subscribe to mommy snacks via e-mail!
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I am a subscriber
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My biggest problem is my husband and son don’t have the same tastes in food. It is difficult to please them both. So, I tend to put off the planning and hope that some wonderful idea will appear in my head by dinner time. Not happening yet but there is always hope.
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I subscribe through email.
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My biggest challenge to menu planning is just getting organized. I feel like anytime I want to start – I have 3 steps to do before hand – like choosing the meals we eat regularly, starting a master shopping list, checking the calendar for variables like date nights and such. AND the picky eater syndrome is a huge component.
sure would like to win something that could fine tune stuff!! ;D
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My biggest meal planning challenge– keeping it from feeling like a plan. I usually plan two weeks at a time, but I always try to make an extra effort to incorporate new meals and to not repeat too often. It’s hard and it takes more time though!
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My biggest challenge is using what I have on hand and not running out for specialty ingredients. It’s not always fun being a foodie!
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I subscribe to your blog via email newsletter thank you
sewitupjulie at gmail dot com
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My biggest challenge is trying to figure out what to cook because it is not my favorite thing to do.
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I subscribe via email!
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I subscribe to your emails.
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I biggest challenge is getting organized, I have recipes all over the place and don’t take the time to get it all together .
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I’m an email subscriber.
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I find it easier to pick one day a week and cook 3-4 type meals in larger portions then freeze them up into smaller sections so its easier just to heat up for meals saving time which is what I lack most in preparation, thanks.
sewitupjulie at gmail dot com
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facebooked it!
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I tweeted about the giveaway! I already follow both you and Ziplist on Twitter!
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I love the Zip List. Its easy for me to use and fun to get the kids involved on recipes they eat. What I like about it is you don’t have all the clutter of cook books and searching in everyone for a meal to make.
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Followed Ziplist and tweeted
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My biggest challenge is planning meals that both of my children, as well as me and my husband, will enjoy.
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I follow ziplist on twitter & tweeted this giveaway & I love the fact that you can add ziplist to your cell phone for easy reminder, my tweeted link is as follows thanks
http://twitter.com/itsallnew2me/status/9300893597
sewitupjulie at gmail dot com
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my facebook wall posted link thanks
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?v=feed&story_fbid=355418454767&id=100000145245599&ref=mf
sewitupjulie at gmail dot com
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I never want what I have planned when it comes time to make it. I love to cook so usually I can improvize and make something else yummy but I need to be better at sticking to my plan.
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I subscibe….
deelou123@hotmail.com
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My biggest challenge in menu planning is not being in the mood for what I had planned.
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My biggest challenge to meal planning is that different family members are on different evening schedules.
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I am an e-mail subscriber.
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My biggest problem is trying to pick something that everyone will agree on!!
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My biggest challenge is actually taking the time to study the ads and plan dinners for the week revolving around those sales. I hear it’s a great idea :)
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My biggest problem is that I hate to cook! If money were not an issue, we would eat out ALL the time. Oh well. So, this Ziplist gift might make it more fun!
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My biggest challenge is sitting down to make a menu that everyone will eat. Then if I do plan something no one wants to eat it. Organization is a big problem too.
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I subscribe via email.
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My biggest challenge is making a list but forgetting one ingredient!
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I subscribe by e-mail
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My biggest problem is the execution. I plan and then plans change and it messes me up
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I subscribe via email. My biggest challenge with menu planning is that I am intimidated. I’m not as organized as I should be and overwhelmed by both.
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My biggest menu planning challenge is planning meals for only one person.
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I am an email subscriber.
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My biggest challenge when menu planning is being creative enought to come up with a plan that has a lot of variety–it usually is too repetitive and boring!
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My biggest challenges (because I have more than one) are finding the time to sit down and do it and then having a good comprehensive list of recipes I like that I can easily look at when comparing what is in my pantry/freezer and what is at a good price that week. I’m tired just thinking about it! Anyway…I’m intrigued by Zip list and would also love the bag and cookbook!
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Posted on my facebook wall (gina C)
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Tweeted: http://twitter.com/drmomoftwo/status/9303684142
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My biggest challenge is staying in budget while still serving the most healthy meals I am able to. I hate using convience foods when I can make something fresh instead. Thanks for the chance.
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My biggest challenge is getting enough variety. I don’t like to eat the same things all the time, but sometimes it’s hard to convince my husband to try new things too.
Thanks for the chance!
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I am an email subscriber
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Biggest problem…picky eaters!
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Tweeted:
http://twitter.com/llsleanerlife/status/9304139209
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My biggest challenge to meal planning is definitely organization. I wish I could get it together cause I know it would help make life easier!
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I subscribe to the daily e-mail digest. Thanks!
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I tweeted on Twitter about the giveaway! Thanks!
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biggest challenge is me being picky but not wanting to make my kids the same way.
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I subscribe!
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posted on Facebook
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posted on facebook too.
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I am an email subscriber.
Thank you!
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My biggest challenge is that my step daughters don’t like to try new things. Although we want to expose them to other meals, they simple are happy with chicken and pasta.
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Biggest challenge? 4 boys, 1 husband, 1 dog, 5 sports, 2 jobs, 2 school schedules, 3 committees…it’s nuts around here most days!
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subscribed via google reader
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posted on face book
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My biggest challenge is menu planning with kids that don’t eat anything except chicken nuggets.
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My challenges are finding recipes without white potatoes and recipes for low sugar desserts that actually taste good. My husband is diabetic and his diet restrictions make it increasingly difficult for me to try new recipes.
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My biggest challenge with menu planning is picking out the best meal for each day! So many decisions! LOL!
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My biggest menu planning challenge is finding new and exciting recipes that my whole family will enjoy.
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I subscribe.
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I already subscribe!
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My biggest problem is me!!
I can’t seem to get organized for weekly menu planning.
I just wing it day by day!
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My biggest challenge is just deciding what to cook! I work outside the home three days a week so those days need fast meals. I was just telling my husband today that I could use a phone w/price book app. I’ll have to add this one to my list of “needs” as well. Thanks for the opportunity to win.
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My challenge is being creative, I feel like I serve the same old things
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My biggest challenge is finding the time and now space on my magnet board that use to house my menus and now is covered with RR, ECB’s, Catalinas and rain checks…
Thanks Andrea!
Also posted on my facebook wall
and signed up for the daily email
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Biggest Challenge is staying organized!
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I am a subscriber
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Lets try again, not sure it went through the first time…
My biggest challenge is finding time and now space on my magnet board now that RR, ECB’s, Catalinas and rain checks take up that space.
Thank you Andrea!
Also posted on my facebook wall and subcribed to the daily email
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email subscriber
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planning because of busy and conflicting evening schedules
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I’m an email subscriber.
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Thanks for hosting a great giveaway! My biggest challenge is having groceries on hand… my bf eats through them before I have time to make it into a meal!
thanks!
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I’m also an email subscriber…
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My biggest challenge is that I’m trying to stick to low-calorie, low-cost, and not time consuming recipes…so many requirements for a recipe to make it on my table!
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my biggest conflict is that my husband doesn’t eat supper, I’m on a diet and need to feed the 6 year old something healthy.
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My biggest challenge is that we all like different foods :-(.
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I Subscribe!
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My biggest challenge is actually deciding what to make. I plan and shop on Sundays but I feel like I spend ages deciding what meals to have that week!
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I follow via RSS feed!
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My biggest challenge is getting up the motivation to plan a menu. When I do, we often have way too many leftovers. A few years back, I started a family recipe book with all our favorites and that does make menu planning easier.
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I’m happy to be an e-mail subscriber of Mommy Snacks!
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Time and organization are my worst enemies.
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organizing the shopping according to the menu plan. I always forget something
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i subscribe!
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biggest challenge is incorporating veggies and getting my kid to eat them
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My biggest problem is that I get in a recipe rut…and end up cooking the same things every week b/c I don’t have time to go through all of my books!
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My biggest challenge: difficulty matching coupons with grocery store sales (just not enough time to do it well), shopping with a 6 month old, and deciding on the menu in advance! :)
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I get e-mail and biggest challenge is me sticking to what I planned instead that “not sounding good” that day.
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My biggest challenge is cooking for my picky family jacksond@nhr3.net
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My biggest challenge is organization, because quite frankly, I am terrible at it :)
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My biggest challenge is s taying healthy 7 nights a week. I get lazy as the week goes on. Even though I have the best of intentions.
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I subscrdibe by email
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email subscribser
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I have copied your twitter message.
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And have updated my Facebook status for your giveaway.
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I have just recently resolved to menu planning. Right now, my biggest challenge is getting all of the ingredients. We moved last week, so we have to stock up.
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I subscribe via feed.
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My biggest challenge is remembering which store had which deal. This week all the stores had Olay specials, but one was the best.
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I use a manual system of coverting recipes to grocery lists – this would be very helpful – what a great idea. I doubt I would use it through my phone – only my PC to generate lists and maintain recipes. Thanks!
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I subscribe to the daily feed.
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I have posted it on Facebook. I hope I get one of the bags. Thanks for all the information that you post.
Beth
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My biggest challenge is time and being consistent.
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I am a subscriber
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I posted on FB
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I subscribed to your email
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I joined your feed.
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I posted on facebook
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My biggest challenge is getting everybody together at the same time to eat dinner
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I subscribe to your blog
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My biggest challenge to menu planning is that I have been recently too consumed with these couponing web sites, trying to snag every deal, and then I realize it’s dinner time! I’ve got to get an earlier start with the dinner menu. I feel like I am preparing snacks all day for the young ones!
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My biggest challenge is when unexpected activities take away the time I thought I had to prepare a nice meal, and then I end up just throwing together whatever is quickest.
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Love it!!
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What a great giveaway. For me, the biggest challenge is coming up with recipes that are easy, quick, nutritious and yummy. With a 3 year old and a 10 month old, ease of preparation is essential! Thanks so much!
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I subscribe to your feed in Google Reader.
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I’m a subscriber! My biggest challenge is just finding the time to do it, and also in an economical way. I know I should look at deals and then plan meals around what’s on sale, but I never seem to follow through with the plan before I get to the store. Then I impulse buy, and end up with a lot of nothing and no full recipe ingredient list!
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My biggest problem is time/having stuff planned and prepped ahead of time!
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My biggest challenge is our dietary restrictions. My son has Autism, so we’ve found out he can’t have gluten, any diary, rice, nuts, canola oil, coconut, eggs, and about 15 other things. Love your site!
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I’m a subscriber!
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I get your email, Thanks!
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My biggest challenge to menu planning is time…most times I just open up the freezer, see what I have and then go to my favorite recipe site on line. Wish I could be a little more organized, but life gets busy.
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sounds cool
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We are a large extended ranching family that comes and goes at will. I truly never know how many people I will be feeding at any meal but dinner is the worst case scenario; I need help planning meals that can be easily expanded when extra appetites come through the door..
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I m a happy email subscriber; I enjoy receiving your newsletter very much.
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I get your email, thank you!
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I hate coming home from work and making a decision of what to make, then not having all the ingredients. It works so much better when I plan, which isn’t all that often. Thanks for the info.
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I don’t like all the time it takes, maybe this will help, Thanks
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I never know who is going to be home. Our twos sons still live at home but they are not always there for dinner. Some times I have too much food or I plan a nice little dinner for just my husband and myself, than the boys show up ready for a home cook meal.
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I subscribe to your e-mail, LOVE IT!!!
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I posted the link on my Facebook wall.
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I tweeted the info, Tweet Tweet – Tweet Tweet !! :)
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I love the gift pack! I don’t have trouble with the planning, shopping or organization of menu planning, it is the execution of it! I am so easily talked into going out (or talk hubs into it!). I love to cook too!
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Just subscribed. Pick me, pick me! :)
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My biggest challenge in menu planning is actually following the menu. I’m very much a planner, so creating a menu each week is something I enjoy. But sticking to the menu can be challenging. So often, life intervenes (Oh, no, we’re out of eggs, so no cornbread with the chili tonight! The toddler didn’t nap, so the lasagna didn’t get assembled with enough time to bake!), and we end up ordering a pizza or heading out to a restaurant.
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I just subscribed to your e-mail list. (c:
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My biggest problem with menu planning is finding the time to plan it before I go to the grocery store.
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I am an email subscriber
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I love this idea, I can see what I’m going to be doing this morning, setting up Zip List!!
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Biggest challenge is getting my cooks in training to add items we run out of to my list.
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I’m an email subscriber and I love it!
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I followed ZipList and tweeted @JamieLynn 1203
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My biggest challenge in meal planning is trying to find something that appeals to everyone. I have a couple picky eaters in my house. I would love this gift pack! Sounds great!
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I just subscribed. My problem is having time shop.
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My biggest challenge in menu planning is finding new recipes so that I’m not making the same rotation of dinners every 2 weeks. It does save a lot of money when I am successful at it tough. :)
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I joined your email list. Making sure I have all ingredients before I start cooking.
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My biggest challenge is finding an inexpensive way to cook foods that are healthy and that my kids will like…:)
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I’m an e-mail subscriber.
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This sounds so exciting!
I can’t wait for the iPhone apps.
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I subscribed by email.
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My biggest challenge to meal planning is picky eaters! We’re only a family of three, but my husband and daughter are both picky and I tend to keep making the same things over and over.
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I subscribe via RSS.
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I tweeted about this giveaway.
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I am signed up for your emails.
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My biggest challenge is to make a menu and stick to it. I tend to make one and then not use it.
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My biggest challenge is variety of dishes and meals that everyone will enjoy.
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Biggest Challenge is variety! I like to change things up every week, I constantly need new favorites. I need new resources for recipes and ideas!!!
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I subscribe via google reader and facebook!
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I am a subscriber
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All of it is challenge when you work full time!!!
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My biggest challenge is not getting stuck in a rut and planning the same meals every week.
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email subscriber
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I’m a subscriber!
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I struggle with it ALL. My biggest setback I would say is forgetting to thaw out the meat!
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My biggest problem is being able to plan meals that will apeal to the whole family.
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I subscribe!
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I put this on my Facebook Wall!
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I subscribe to your email!
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tweet tweet!!
http://twitter.com/shellibean7/status/9343734256
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My biggest challenges are:
trying to please my whole family, everytime I sit down to menu plan I have a brain freeze and can not seem to think of good meals and time.
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I subscribe via google reader
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The hardest part of it all is the total meal planning…I get a good menu going then forget one ingredient. Never fails.
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I don’t have problems with time but I’m really bad at planning and shopping. So I end up cooking whatever I think at the last minute with whatever ingredients I have at home (Is not as bad as it sounds LOL, because at least I don’t do any last minute shopping, I cook what I have).
I hope I could win this time!!
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My biggest challenge to menu planning is trying to come up with different things that my whole family will like.
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I sibscribe to the email newslatter
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My biggest problem with dinner is doing more variaties.
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This sounds AWESOME! Thanks.
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Taking the time to figure out what I need and what will make two adults and one picky toddler happy :)
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I don’t really have a menu plan, since I live alone. But when my bf comes to visit me, he usually stays for a week, and I try to plan our menu together for the week. He’s more of the “go-to-Safeway every evening to get what you want for dinner that night” type, so sometimes just getting him to think ahead is a challenge.
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I subscribe via RSS.
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I am an email subscriber. Menu planning challenge is always a change in plans and sticking to a plan.
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email subscriber
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My biggest challenge is finding something fast, tasty, healthy, frugal, and also that everyone will eat (including my 18 month old son!) :) Thanks for the chance to win!
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I do daycare all week and just want to relax this weekend! ziplist sounds awesome!
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Great website! Very helpful!!
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My biggest challenge is remembering to add things to my list. With ZipList that is solved though, because I can text to it! ZipList (and YOU) ROCK!
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my biggest challange is my son. He is so picky. I could cook a great meal and then he wants hotdogs? go figure.
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I am following both on twitter and tweeted @ http://twitter.com/cjcmommy
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I told everyone on my facebook wall. Charlene canfield
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I tweeted!
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I get your emails.
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I follow your feed too.
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Trying to find a recipe that fits what ingredients I have in the house. I try to just buy things on sale so I have strange combinations sometimes.
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I posted a link to your giveaway on my blog http://tinyurl.com/ykspacl
I hope you will follow me! :)
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My biggest challenge is that I don’t take the time to plan out meals so after school/work/homework I’m in the kitchen @ 5 pm wondering what in the world I am going to make for dinner! Scouring through the recipe book searching to see if I have all the ingredients to make a recipe, if not, moving on to the next one until I find one I have everything for and won’t take too long! UGGH!
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I’m biggest menu planning challenge is just sitting down to do it. I usually have good intentions and just never get around to doing it!
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My biggest challenge is finding the time to make meal plan! Life always seems to get in the way.
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I am an email subscriber.
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I follow Ziplist on twitter, and I tweeted!
http://twitter.com/monteefamily/status/9357495510
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My biggest challenges are organization and time and money… I work for an airline and need to consider all the meals during my days off and also have enough food for my hubby while I’m away and have some food to take with me during my trips. Plus, my hubby lost his job back in September so we are struggling to eat healthily and be very budget conscious.
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I am already a follower – YAY – and have been for quite awhile! Love your website! Great info and a great way for me to save $$ and find good deals. Thank you!
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And, I just tweeted this awesome giveaway. :)
Thanks again!!
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My biggest issue with Menu Planning is that I have picky eaters & I get bored with the choices I have to work with. I’ve started making some new things & have found that the kids and hubby will eat them once in awhile… but they all still like the standard fare.
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My big problem is sticking to the menu, my hubby wants something other that what I had planned previously.
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I am a subscriber! Thanks!
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My biggest challenge is making sure my son gets plenty of carbs because he is a runner but not to many for the rest of the family who are not runners….
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My biggest challenge is getting a variety of meals on a budget!
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my biggest challenge is not giving into cravings for something different than I had planned for my menu
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For me, it’s a combination of all 3 plus this year, we seem to be running hither & thither. I like to cook but find the daily routine sometimes difficult to manage – time constraints do dictate what and when we eat. If I’m planning couponing and then executing couponing, it’s hard to actually meal plan. Thanks for a great giveaway!
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My main challenge with menu planning is…menu planning. I need a swift kick in the pants.
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I subscribe to your feed via Google reader.
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My biggest meal-planning challenge is: 3 picky daughters, a meat-and-potatoes husband, and being a vegetarian myself. Hard to find recipes that please everyone!
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I’m an RSS follower!
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My biggest challenge is I can’t cook :) I have to depend on hubbie & he isn’t a planner
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Follow & tweeted http://twitter.com/momof2dancers/status/9368099270
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email subscriber
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my biggest challenge is getting to the grocery store to buy the items I need to prepare the meals that I’ve planned out for the week
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I just finished meal planning & couponing today for the first time in months. I forgot how time consuming it can be. I will say the food is usually a lot healthier though! Here’s hoping we can keep it up!
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My biggest challenge is that I have four grown sons. I now live alone. I still cook for 5. I still like the meals I prepared and if I freeze the left overs, I don’t ever eat them, so wasted food. It just may be easier and cheaper to go to the fast food places.
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I subscribed to your blog via email.
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http://www.facebook.com/MommySnacks#!/kathleen.mcgill1
facebook wall
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My biggest challenge is finding menu items that work for a picky husband and 3 toddlers.
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I would love to win this!
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My biggest challenge with menu planning is what to fix. It seems my family doesn’t like to commit to a meal much before they want to eat it! … Patricia
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I subscribe via google reader … Patricia
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My biggest challenge is cooking only for two people (I know that shouldn’t be a problem)…I just can’t figure out how to cut down some recipes while keeping the flavor so lately I have been trying to stick with recipes that freeze well. It sure does save time in the end.
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My biggest challenge – trying new receipes, I have many to try, but I fall back on the ones I know too well.
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I subscribe!
This looks like a really awesome gift!! Thanks for the chance
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My biggest challenge to menu planning is the idea of planning ahead in general! I am terrible at planning for large meals and often visit the market more often than needed… which isn’t very efficient!
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I subscribe via email already.
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My biggest challenge–adapting–I have 3 teens and we all have very hectic schedules–the nights I plan to spend time cooking–things come up —emergency trip to Orthodontist, double overtime game, each kid has a friend that wants to stay for dinner, or Sunday night I cook a huge dinner and no one is home to eat it. I feel like the kitchen gods are always working against me—things that always take 2 hours to defrost –take 8 hours when I really need them etc!!!
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sticking to the menu plan is such a challenge for me!
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My biggest challenge to menu planning is a combination of everything. Having the time to sit down and plan out what were going to eat while having a variety of choices and staying within a “budget”. I also find that I will plan something and then something happens and the plans change and it doesn’t work out.
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