Say Mmm. . . And Say Goodbye to Disorganized Meal Planning!
You know I love sharing new and exciting meal plans with you, right? And that I don’t discriminate sharing ALL that I know about. After all, what works well for one person might not work well for the next. However, I KNOW there is a resource out there to help each and every one of you.
For me one of the greatest obstacles to any cooking is my grocery list. I NEED to have a complete and thorough list BEFORE heading to the store. Otherwise, I am just plain lost. I end up forgetting key ingredients I need and therefore end up running to the store or scrapping the dinner plan altogether. Although, that is the benefit of freezer cooking, I make sure I have all the ingredients on hand.
But as some of you have indicated, sometimes you have a desire to just cook for a week or two weeks. You can fathom the idea of being in the kitchen for a whole day, maybe just half a day for you. Well, you need to organize your lists for that too. As you can see from the Once A Month Mom grocery lists, I believe in having your grocery list all set up and organized by area of the grocery store. This further insures (or at least prevents) me from missing necessary ingredients.
Sample Menu Plan
Well, there is a a FREE new resource that is being made available to you that might just help you with just that! I am excited to be a part of a multi-blog promotion to tell you about Say Mmm. Say Mmm is a new resource for helping you to create grocery shopping lists and organize your recipes into meal plans. In an effort to show you just how the system works, I, and some great blogging counterparts, have submitted some suggested recipes for you for a weekly meal plan, check them out! You will find 6 customized weekly meal plans for you and your family, all from your favorite bloggers.
Who are these other fabulous bloggers?
- Sara @ Finding Joy in My Kitchen - Organizing My Kitchen {and Yours Too!}
- Laura @ Heavenly Homemakers - Breakfast Organization (With Giveaways!)
- Heather @ Home Ec 101 – Getting Organized: Menu Planning
- Tricia @ Once a Month Mom – Say Goodbye to Disorganized Meal Planning
- Laura@ Organizing Junkie – New Feature: Printable Grocery Lists + Giveaway
- Toni @ The Happy Housewife - Organize With Less
- Brian @ Say Mmm site/blog – Help Getting Organized
Wow! Can I just say I am honored to be on a list with these fabulous women?
And it gets better! We want you to try out Say Mmm for yourself. Don’t just take our word on how it makes menu planning easier, you should try it first hand. (If you are a blogger with recipes on your site there is a special contest going on for you at Org Junkie.) After all, Say Mmm needs your valuable feedback to make this a useful tool! I will be drawing 9 winners – one winner for each of these prizes:
- 4 copies of the BRAND NEW Org Junkie book Clutter Rehab
- 2 six-month subscriptions to Say Mmm Plus (this is added features BEYOND the free features)
- 3 copies of Heavenly Homemakers Do the Funky Kitchen ebook to help you organize your kitchen
Here is how you can enter to win:
1. Leave a Comment on how Say Mmm can help you meal plan, grocery shop or more.
Additional ways to enter:
2. Visit EACH of the blogs listed above who are also running the same contest – enter on their sites as well!
3. Tweet or Facebook this contest – use @onceamonthmom & @sayMmm. (Maybe something like: Make meal plans easy with @sayMmm & @onceamonthmom http://bit.ly/egcDu0) And don’t forget to leave a comment below stating you have done so.
4. Follow @sayMmm on Twitter. Leave a comment below that you have done so or if you are already.
5. Follow @onceamonthmom on Twitter. Leave a comment below that you have done so or if you are already.
6. Become a Facebook Fan of Once A Month Mom Fan Page. Leave a comment below that you have done so or if you are already.
7. Become a Facebook Fan of the Say Mmm. Leave a comment below that you have done so or if you are already.
8. Subscribe to the Once A Month Mom blog via RSS or email. Let me know that you have done so. Of course, if you are already subscriber make sure you leave that too.
This giveaway ends Thursday, February 10 at 8:00 PM (EST).
I am a follower of your blog, and have fanned you on Facebook. I am hoping that Say Mmm! can help me efficently plan meals for a week or more. I like that it allows the user to schedule in time for eating out. I am most excited about the shopping list function.
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This looks like a great tool to help me plan!
I’m a facebook fan of SayMMM
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I liked you on facebook. I love to “cook once a month” and am glad I found your web site throught this contest!
saymmm.com would help me be way more organized and help me save money on our food bill!
I’m a OAMM FB fan!
I get the OAMM emails!
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I always overbuy at the store. This will definitely keep me on track!
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I recently heard about Say Mmmm and was trying it out because I like to pick and choose from your recipes, so your grocery lists don’t always work for me. I was having a lot of difficulty using it though.
I’m so excited to start using these resources. I also didn’t know some of these sites were on Twitter. I am new to that so hopefully I can find a way to follow you all!
Wow, sounds great. I have recipes and meal plans I rotate but all on paper. Would love to put all online with a grocery list.
Having Say Mmmm would help me not spend so much unnecessary items at the store. If I would start menu planning, I could know what I need from the store instead of guessing.
I have never tried a meal plan, hopefully this would help me start one!!
I visited Organizing Junkie and signed up!
I visited Heavenly Homemakers and signed up!!
I visited Home Ec 101 and signed up!
I already subscribe to Once a month Mom email and I am a member of Say MMM.
I visited The Happy Housewife and signed up!
I visited Finding Joy in My Kitchen and signed up
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Planning a month in advance? I have a hard time doing it a day in advance LOL, but maybe after reading through more of your posts I’ll be able to give it a try. I just signed up for SayMmm and am not sure how best to use it. But my first thought is to try putting in my favorite recipes, then use it to generate a shopping list so that I don’t do my usual thing of shopping for hours only to find out later in the week that I missed an item and can’t make the planned meal. I’m also going to check out the 6 meal plans that you guys put together to see if I can tweak them to work for me.
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This would be great to help consolidate online recipes.
Thanks!
Great tips. Love your site.
I love that you can find your say mmm list and meal plan on your phone. I am always forgetting y list at home. Thanks for the giveaway.
I love that say mmm has a phone list option. It’s all the better for my scattered brain to find the list I have made! Thanks for the giveaway!
I like the site and the ease of making a grocery list from the items I need to complete my meals.
Say Mmmmm is going to be so helpful with meals! can’t wait to start using it!
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Became a fan of Say Mmm on facebook!
Just knowing what you will be cooking ahead of time saves time, money, etc. My biggest thing would be that I could keep an eye out for sales of items that I would need down the road.
I love the idea of having my recipes on my phone with me all the time. Talk about clutter-free! No more ripped pieces of magazine stuffed in my bookshelf. I also like that I can create grocery lists based off of my own recipes!
I am visiting all the blogs–great resources all of them!
I am now a subscriber; thanks for a great site!
wow, this site looks amazing. I can’t wait to dive into and customize it to my needs. I love the internet.
Just signed on to Say mmm. Where has it been hiding. I have researched and stressed over menu planning, and this was around all along? You sure do learn something new everyday.
My biggest source of disorganization is my bedroom and my bathroom! It only seems to stay clean for a few days at a time then clutter creeps slowly back in until it’s completely disorganized…HELP!
I signed up for Say Mmm and love it! I post most of my recipes to my blog, and this will help streamline grocery shopping for me and for my readers. Thanks for the giveaway!
I am very thankful for this contest as I would never have seen all of these wonderful sites!! I can’t wait to read more of yours!!! Please enter me in the contest!!
I’m really looking forward to having a printable meal plan. It will be much faster than me hand writing each thing.
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Say Mmmm would help me just get started!!! I’ve been taking baby steps with help from Laura at The Organizing Junkie… this might just help ‘push me over the edge’ into a full-time organized menu planner!!!
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Thanks for the nice article!
Thanks for the chance to win! Say Mmm is a great tool for planning menus.
I am so excited, I am in information overload. Thank you for ALL you do to make my life easier and organized!
I am fan of OAMM & Say Mmm on facebook
I’m a poor meal planner! I need help to be better organized.
I subscribe to your emails.
I’m hoping it would help me to set a successful menu plan.
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I’ve been doing the free subscription to Say MMM and it’s already been a great help to me. I’d love to win the giveaway.
i need all the help i can get in the kitchen. i love menu planning done for me. thanks!
I like OAMM on fb
i liked say mmmm on fb
i subscribe to OAMM.
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I can see it will help me be more organized and therefore making planning easier and the better organized and planned I am the bestter the results usually!
Thanks so much for the opportunity to win in this giveaway!
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Hi!
I am visiting each of the blogs!
Thanks so much for the opportunity to win in this giveaway!
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Hi!
I am a new FB fan of yours
Thanks so much for the opportunity to win in this giveaway!
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Hi!
I am a new fan of Say MMmm…on FB
Thanks so much for the opportunity to win in this giveaway!
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I am subscribed via email!
Thanks so much for the opportunity to win in this giveaway!
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I found Say Mmm through Laura at Heavenly Homemakers and am in the process of putting all of my recipes in. So far I think it’s amazing, and would like to use it exclusively for menu planning. Menu planning is the biggest hurdle for me, rather than shopping, coupons, etc., and for this purpose Say Mmm works great!
I’m a fan of Say Mmm on Facebook. Thanks!
I’m a fan of Once a Month Mom on Facebook. Thanks!
I follow Say Mmm on Twitter. Thanks!
I follow Once a Month Mom on Twitter. Thanks!
I’m subscribed to the blog via RSS.
FB fan of Say Mmm (and OAMM)!
I think meal planning will make my life easier. We struggle every night trying to think of something to eat. Most of the Having everything planned out will save me time and make my day less stressful. Say Mmm will be very beneficial, I always seem to leave my grocery list at home. Having the application on my phone will be great.
Signing up all over!
So glad to have found you!!! I joined you and say Mmmmm! Thanks for the help and chance to win!!!!
I subscribe. I could use all the help I can get to be organized.
Would love a chance to win a copy. Would love to implement this type of system into our household – would make things run so smooth!
Say Mmm can only help. I love the feeling of being organized and helping my family at the same time. I also hate wasting money on groceries I don’t end up using. Looking forward to the help.
I’m a Facebook fan of Once A Month Mom.
I have been meal planning recently and love the ease of it. We try a new recipe every week to add variety. Have signed up for this and plan to add all my recipes on Mmm and see how the grocery list works. Will now wonder around your blog. Hope that you will stop over and visit me sometime
I subscribe to Once a Month Mom.
I Facebooked this contest.
I am a FB fan of Say Mmmm.
This looks really cool! Anything that makes my life easier!
I’m a fan on FB, love the site! I work late, so its nice to have the resource to have meals planned for my DH and kids to cook or have started for me!!
this looks like a good way to keep track of recipes and grocery lists
need all the organizational tips & tricks i can get! Fan of Say Mmm
I came here from Organizing Junkie. I am really interested in the price comparison feature she talked about to go along with the grocery list. I am a couponer with Truecouponing.com and I think those two additions will make a complete package. Thank you for offering us this chance.
NEED TO GET ORGANIZED THIS YEAR!
i just signed up for the sayMmmm website and am looking forward to trying my hand at organizing meals.
it looks like this would be a HUGE help to me so i don’t forget the ‘just one thing’ from the store that would complete a meal (or 5)!
I’m a FB fan of OAMM!
I’m an OAMM e-mail subscriber.
i need all the help i can get with grocery planning! i need to bring down our household grocery costs.
Not only will you help me meal plan better, but you provide some great meals too! Thank you, I’m glad I found your site!
I follow SayMmm
I ought to have cooking for dummies on my shelf! I need easy recipes or at the very least recipes that don’t require too many steps! Heehee.
This website/blog will be very help, since we have just had our first child and planning ahead will help with the weekly schedule of the newborn.
Just tweeted the contest
following @sayMmm on twitter (silkwilk27)
following @onceamonthmom on twitter (silkwilk27)
Liked SayMmm on facebook
Liked OAMM on facebook
subscribed to email
I like that it has a check if you need section. Reminds me to make sure I have enough of those items we always keep on hand before going to the store. I hate getting 1/2 through cooking a recipe only to realize I’m missing something.
I can’t wait to get started with Say Mmmm! Lovin’ OAMM!
One question – What day does the giveaway end??? February 10th is a Thursday, not a Monday…
I’m going to be sooooo organised thanks to you guys!!!
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Say Mmm could help me make sure I don’t forget to buy recipe ingredients. Nothing is more frustrating than making dinner and realizing that you are missing an ingredient.
I wrote about the contest on facebook.
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I subscribe to Once a Month Mom on a RSS feed reader.
I follow OAMM on FB!
I subscribe to OAMM via RSS!
I think this is a wonderful idea! Just choose the recipes and voila! The grocerly list is all organized and ready to print! I am all for saving time!
I am a FB fan of Say Mmmmm!
Thanks to all who are allowing us to enter this contest!
I need help planning ahead to make sure items are in the pantry. The other problem is 5 ravenous children — can you help with that?
I subscribed to your blog via email. Love It!
My favorite feature about it is that I can use it on the mobile phone. That is a life-saver!!
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I am a fan of OAMM on Facebook.
Can’t wait to try Say MMM!
Became a fan of SayMMM on facebook.
Just found your website and saymmm. I think both with help in being more organized and keeping track of recipes. Thanks for the help!
Now a FB fan.. yay!!
I have been following you for months now on FB! Love all the Help!
I do something similar to this already, but I use several different websites and Say Mmmm looks like it will save me TIME in my planning! That makes me VERY happy!!
I’m a fan of OAMM on facebook and have been for a month or so!
I just “liked” Say Mmm on facebook!
Wow. Say Mmm is really helpful. I’m about to upgrade to the Say Mmm plus that way I can track calories too! Thanks for posting this to help aall of us out!
I’m a facebook fan of OAMM
I also get the OAMM emails :0)
and I’m now a fan of th Say MMM facebook page