Food Talk And Fabulous Finds - Pay someone for deep BASIC 30 day meal planning for a family of three.

I am looking to contract (pay) someone to create a one month meal plan for a family of three. Two adults, and one seventeen year old. Here are the criteria:



1) It must be in Mastercook format. Usable by the Mastercook software.

2) It must conform to Weight Watchers guidelines for good main meals, and extra side dishes, for a rounded WW meal plan WITH APPROPRIATE BALANCED AND CLEAR POINTS COUNTS. Both adults are doing WW, while the seventeen year old can eat whatever they want.

3) Each recipe should have no more than five or six items, and be able to be made in 15 to 20 minutes. We are trying to keep this simple.

4) It would be nice if the recipes all met the WW CORE plan guidelines.

5) All like ingredients must be identical, so that a printed shopping list combines it all exactly the same way.

6) The meal plan must be for 30 days. The printed shopping list should result in shopping once every two weeks (or sooner to a maximum of once a week to get perishables).

7) Recipes can be repeated in the meal plan, and leftovers can be incorporated in the meal plan. As long as these are well noted. Three meals a day every day for 30 days.



*** Bonus meal plan extras I would like to see is:

a) Ingredients sorted into shopping “like item” grocery store rows. All meats together, all pastas together in the shopping list from mastercook.

b) Ingredients used are sustainable for the planet (I am a green planet type family – looking for a sustainable plan).

c) The meal plan actually reduces the costs via optimized ingredients, that are inexpensive versions (most appropriate meat cuts, and NOT filet minion). But still I would like to see good variety. Maybe even price out the ingredients, but that may be asking too much.



I am thinking of other criteria to add, but this all should do. I have no idea what I should pay someone to do this work, but hopefully I can get the attention of someone who has already done this work. Please forward this to any friends that you think might be interested. Please respond back to my email address, (ktjensen(at)yahoo.com) and let me know what you would charge; and why I should work with you (versus “slaving through” doing this all on my own to create an ultimate basic meal plan for 30 days).

Kevin

Have you tried eDiets? You can choose your plan, then pick and choose recipes and meal plan ideas to generate a month's worth of menus, including shopping lists. They have a LOT of diet plans to choose from, so it should be easy to find something that blends well with Core. It won't come in Mastercook format, though. However, you have the ability to replace any meals that you don't like, and there are probably hundreds to choose from. You probably won't have that freedom if someone creates it for you.

I'm glad to hear that you are looking for green cuisine. If you have time, maybe you can join us in our Whole Foods forum, as many of us are interested in this.

Good luck :)

so is Ediets that good a program? I was thinking I should do weight watchers (I did that program before), but I have just not signed up again yet. WW just does not do meal plans.

Maybe I will do both and see how it all works for me. I need Diet 911 given all the compeating agendas in this household (diabetic spouse, raging hormone teenager, too many pets)

Ediets definitely does meal planning and you can check out the various type of meal plans offered. Another option that I've heard good opinions about is www.savingdinner.com. They have meal planning menus of various type which they email you on a regular basis, some health concious, some not.