On West of the Loop, I strive to offer you, my readers, delicious, healthy, from-scratch recipes for main courses, side dishes, and desserts that fit into your families’ lifestyle. Having grown-up in a household with two parents who work outside the home, and having been a mom who, at various times, has worked outside the home, stayed at home and, now, works at home, I know how difficult it is to feed a family without resorting too often to take-out and convenience foods.
That is why I am so happy to be partnering with EatLove, a subscription meal planning service that is designed to help families like yours and mine prepare nourishing, home-cooked meals together. EatLove combines delicious recipes from expert chefs, cookbook authors, food bloggers (me!) and subscribers’ personal recipes with a powerful meal-planning engine that accommodates a massive variety of food avoidances and preferences complete with shopping lists and nutrition information.
Did you know that research has proven that meal planning helps families make better, healthier meals more easily while at the same time reducing stress and supporting higher quality family time? That’s a pretty compelling argument. But there are a lot of meal-planning services out there. What makes EatLove different?
- Delicious food from top chefs and recipe creators: A wide range of recipes from celebrity chefs, such as Jonathan Waxman and Bobby Flay, leading specialist cookbook authors like Shauna Ahern of Gluten Free Girl, Prerna Singh of Indian Simmer, and Leanne Brown of Good and Cheap: Eat Well on $4/Day and trusted bloggers (ahem). Every recipe partner enables countless new meal plans of nearly limitless variety. EatLove is continuously adding new recipe partners and flavorful cuisines, so you will never get bored.
- Ease of use: From meal plans at the click of a button, EatLove builds out the optimum plan for preparing and producing those meals. It organizes your family schedule so you prepare ingredients once and use them multiple times, including ‘Sunday Sanity Prep’ to get subscribers set up for the week ahead. (This is a trick all smart home cooks know!) Every meal plan produces its own grocery list, which can be managed to fit the ingredients you already have at home. Families save an average of 2 1/2 hours per week (!) by using EatLove’s service to plan weekly meals, shop efficiently with a smart grocery list and complete a weekly prep session.
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Caters to simple and complex dietary goals: EatLove can plan meals without dietary restraints to the most complex lifestyles and food avoidances. Dietary considerations ranging from low salt to low carb and vegetarian to gluten free, are all possible and each can be specified with foods to avoid, including potential allergens such as tree nuts or wheat, food groups or to taste or ethical preferences around meat or dairy products. This is huge for families like mine with food allergies, religious observances and just plain picky eaters.
I am positively giddy thinking about all the great cooking that is happening in EatLove subscribers’ home. I truly believe that this service is the answer that families have been looking for to tackle the dreaded question of “what’s for dinner.”
In the interest of full disclosure, I am being compensated for my work with EatLove and I receive a commission on subscriptions purchased through my site. But I would not be working with EatLove, and giving them access to my recipes, if I did not believe in the company’s mission, which is to help families cook delicious, nutritious meals while saving time and money and living sustainably. If that mission does not align with my own, I don’t know what does!
To sign up for EatLove, click on any of the links in this post.
