Menu Makers, Part Two

Back in September, I wrote about trying MenuMakers for the first time and promised to give everyone our opinion on the meals after we'd eaten a few. Well, for those of you who have been anxiously awaiting our thoughts on the subject, we recently finished all of the meals I prepared back in September. The reviews are mixed. First of all, we actually saved a lot of money on food during the month, since we didn't eat out nearly as much. Normally, on those nights that we open the fridge and go "there's nothing to fix for dinner," we end up out eating at a restaurant, and generally it's not the fast food kind. You just don't realize how much that adds up over the course of a month! Anyway, the results were mixed because while there were a few recipes that we really liked, out of the 12 entrees that we tried, most were just so-so. I kept having to remind Chad that we had paid for the convenience of easy preparation, because he kept saying "I could make something better than this," which is true because he is a very good cook. Since I'm not, and I really don't like to cook, I would lean towards doing MM again because I liked the convenience and am not a picky eater. However, Chad decided that since the recipes aren't that great, he wanted to do his OWN MenuMakers evening with his own recipes. Last night, while I was out shopping for clothes, he went to the grocery store and bought ingredients for about 7 of our favorite meals, mixed up about 4 of them, and put them in the freezer. Now, for the next few weeks, whenever we don't know what to fix the next night, all we have to do is grab something from the freezer and thaw it out. Hopefully we'll see the same benefits of saving money, but we'll be eating some of our favorite meals and not trying something new that we don't really like. He's a husband extraordinaire!