Back to school meal planning with eMeals

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The start of school is just around the corner. I KNOW. I can’t believe it either. I feel like my husband has barely been home this summer (because he really hasn’t been home this summer) and I also feel totally off my game. We’re good at meal planning each week, but we have let things slide a few times this summer. It hasn’t been pretty.

Thankfully, eMeals can help when it’s time to go back to school. They can take the stress away every weekend as I’m trying to rack my brain for a grocery list and figure out what we can eat throughout the week that isn’t going to take 2 hours to prepare and cook. Oh, and they’re good about having healthy (delicious) options that even my toddler will eat.

Try eMeals for free for 14 days! You can select the type of menu you want to try, and they give you recipes under that menu type. Try Quick and Healthy, Low Carb, Budget Friendly (my favorite!), Vegetarian, and more categories of recipes. They send you the ingredients you’ll need and the recipes, and it’s such a great way to try new meals – and follow a type of food plan. 

It’s a winning time for everyone.

Speaking of winning, here’s a recipe I made this weekend (from their low fat plan.) Oh, and the chicken was part of the recipe. The sauteed squash was my own doing – I picked the squash from the garden this past week and needed to eat it soon!

With eMeals, you select the type of menu you want to receive (we’ve switched to a Clean Eating Meal Plan. And when cold weather is closer, I’ll switch is back to a slow cooker plan.) Every week, an email is sent you with a PDF of that week’s menu and grocery list. Should you choose all seven meals, then your list is practically complete! I tend to pick a new meal each week to try.

Grilled Lemon-Lime Basil Chicken

Grilled Lemon-Lime Basil Chicken
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 Ā½ lb boneless chicken breast fillets
  • Ā½ (1-oz) package fresh basil, separated into leaves
  • Ā½ cup fresh lemon juice (juice of 3 lemons)
  • Ā¼ cup fresh lime juice (juice of 2 limes)
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon pepper

Instructions

    Combine chicken, basil, lemon juice, lime juice, olive oil, salt, and pepper in a large bowl.
    Cover and refrigerate no more than 4 hours.
    Remove chicken from marinade, discarding marinade. Grill chicken over medium-high 4 to 5
    minutes per side or until done.

How do you plan for school day/night meals?

The above links are affiliate links. I’ve not been compensated for this post. I did receive a complimentary eMeals subscription many months ago, but all opinions here are my own.

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40 Comments

  1. Sounds like a great service.I normally plan the night before for the next day and mainly depends what I have from the garden veg and what I have in the freezer.

  2. That is a great meal. Zucchini is m favorite veggie, I buy it fresh at the farmers market, and plan to do so today. My son is entering middle school in September so we have no idea what scheduling will be this year!
    thanks,
    Mitch

  3. Since I’ve become a blogger.. I’ve done decent with meal planning at least 3 days a week! Gotta blog about something.. hee hee. I need to look into this.

  4. eMeals does sound good. So does the chicken recipe, and I love zucchini. I am the only one in the house who does though, can you even believe that?!?!? Atrocity, I tell ya.

  5. I love summer and picking veggies from the garden. They taste so much better than store bought. The chicken recipe looks great!

  6. Hey, I made this last night for dinner! Well, something similar. I had chicken breast with a bit of lemon infused olive oil and zucchini. Then, I mashed some cauliflower. It was a great dinner!

  7. I am a meal planner – I like to buy all needed ingredients – put the meals together and freeze them. Easy to take out of freezer and you have all ingredients to make the meal or put the meal in the crockpot in the morning.

  8. I always try to have my weekly meals planned out early in the week so I don’t have that rush of what to make for dinner. This chicken recipe sounds ah-mazing!

  9. I love lemon chicken and quick easy recipes. šŸ™‚ I love the idea of them sending a list it would make things so much easier

  10. I try to plan fresh from the oven meals on nights when everyone is home, and on busier days we do the leftover thing. I like to make A LOT when I cook so I can portion and freeze.

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