Are you lost in the kitchen desiring to make quality meals for your family but don’t have any inclination as to where to start? Enter…Say Mmm – a practical hands on program online that helps parents save time and money getting dinner on the table. The website provides several free meal planning, grocery shopping, and recipe organizing features for all your needs.
The founder, Brian, launched Say Mmm after seeing his wife stress one too many times over planning dinner, which led him to leave his job at Google to make a set of tools that would help all parents. A lot of other places focus on helping people find new recipe ideas, and Say Mmm is more focused on helping people with organizing ideas from anywhere and easily using them in meal plans and smart shopping lists that help do some of the organization work for them. And all the basic features are absolutely free allowing you to store up to 100 recipes in your account! It also has free features for bloggers, like printable grocery lists, to use on their sites. Here are more specifics as to the features:
- Meal planning – Easily plan meals by day, week, or month with an online calendar designed to work with your recipes and shopping lists.
- Grocery lists – Simplify grocery lists with smart features that help you remember and organize the things you need to get. It can even integrate with your smart phone for easy shopping on the go.
- Recipes – Save all your recipes and meal ideas in one place, organize them as you like, and just click to use them in meal plans and shopping lists.
- Say Mmm Plus – In addition to the many free features, Say Mmm Plus offers you price tracking to clearly detail your costs, as well as calorie counts, and has an unlimited recipe storage (whereas the free version limits you to 100 recipes saved in your planner) for only $3/month.
Today, Say Mmm would like to offer four readers a 6-month free trial ($18 value each) of the Say Mmm Plus service.
To Enter:
1. Check out Say Mmm and come back and share your favorite aspect of the program and your most useful meal planning tip.
2. For a second optional entry, become a fan of Say Mmm on Facebook. Let us know in a second comment below.
Giveaway Closed.
And the winners are…
Jamie – jj_hammond@…
Nicki – nicnak401@…
Jenna – jennaflannery07@…
Marlene – Marlene@…
I like them on facebook.
I like that you can add the grocery items to recipes and meal ideas, so you can just type the name of a meal or recipe to add the items you need to your grocery list. I can’t say I have very many great meal planning tips…I’m pretty bad at it. I guess the biggest problem for me is getting meal ideas so I’ve started writing down every meal we have on the calender so I have all the ideas up there.. then when I need an idea I can look at all the stuff we’ve eaten in the past couple months and its easy to pick something.
I liked them on FB!
Liked on FB.
Cool idea. I saw that all your recipes from this website have been uploaded to their site. Thanks.
the recipe organizer looks so helpful – my paper recipes are a giant mess!
I am a fan of Say Mmm on facebook
I love the grocery list creation feature . . . that is one of my least favorite chores!
Oh Wow! Organize my recipes!!! My husband would LOVE for me to do that!
But I like the meal planning too. Oh I just love everything about this website.
I also liked them on Facebook! Thanks!
I need some serious help in meal planning. This looks awesome!
Oh! And I liked them on Facebook.
Once again, thanks for the great recommendation!
Thanks for the wonderful reccomendation! I’m going grocery shopping tonight so I’m going to give it a try!
My favorite feature from what I’ve seen so far is the fact that you can choose a recipe and it automatically adds the necessary ingredients to your list. This program is so smart!
I’ve been looking into a program similar to this, but don’t have $60 to spend on it. I love that it’s free! Thanks for referring us to this site!
I’m most excited about the grocery list organizing. I find that it is helpful to plan out 10 different meals and have the ingredients on hand, but not tie them to specific days. Then I can cook what I want when I feel like it.
Totally good timing… mealplanning is a focus for me for May! This tool will help me get a great start in an area that is such a usual struggle for me… I try to make weekly plans & notes, but totally need the help to organize everything & this online version of my efforts, I pray, will help!
This is PERFECT for me. I checked the website out and I love ALL of it! I spend hours at the beginning of each month planning and organizing meals and making shopping lists. I gather all my cookbooks and sprawl out onto the floor after the kids go to bed. This website could be such a time saver for me!
I love how much time this would save me and allow me to provide healthier meals for my family without going crazy trying to set it all up.
Are you kidding? I love it ALL! This is SO up my alley! I spend hours at the beginning of each month planning meals, organizing recipes and making grocery lists. I sprawl out on the living room floor after the kids go to bed with all 6 or 7 of my cookbooks and start searching. This website would be a FANTASTIC time saver!
I attempt to organize often by making lists but then I lose the list! I love that this is online, saved and organized for me!! That will make life much easier.
I love that everything is in one spot. I can be organized and have my recipes in easy to find categories.
My tip: If you find veggies on sale then buy a few and use them throughout the week in various recipes so they don’t spoil.
I “liked” them on facebook.
I liked them on Facebook, too. (and I forgot my tip last time: clean out the fridge the day before meal planning, to refresh in your mind what’s left to use up!)
I REALLY like how they just save your ideas for you as you go and you don’t have to do it in a separate step! Very friendly!
fan on facebook!!
I visited Say mmm on Facebook and “Liked” them!
I love the fact that I can finally get all three meals accounted for AND that I can build an intuitive list from my choices. DOH – and let’s not forget that it works on my SMART PHONE!! BONUS!
Just “liked” them on Facebook!
I am a new wifey and “Say Mmm is great for helping me feed my man.
I love the grocery lists, especially how it makes it very simple to track prices.
love the grocery list/meal planner features!
Just signed up for the free version but can definitely see myself needing to store more than 100 recipes. I really like how integrated everything is and the introductory video was helpful in understanding how to use it. I only wish it had links to saving your favorite recipes from more common sites like allrecipes.com or cooks.com Thanks for sharing.
love the meal planing/grocery list features!
I liked them on Facebook!
What”s not to like about this?! I love the idea! My favorite part is the smart grocery list. I always forget things (even with a list), and end up having to go back to the store and end up getting things we don’t really need.
One of the things I do to help menu planning is to make a huge batch of beans in the crockpot Sunday night, then plan several meals that week that contain whatever type of bean I cook up. Chili, southwest fish tacos, stir fry, enchiladas… I get pretty diverse with what I can make with the same ingredient.
I am a fan on facebook!
Wow! What a great tool! I love how all the recipes are stored in one place and how accessible they are when you want to add them to your menu. My recipes are all jumbled in a 3-ring binder in no specific order which leads to wasting much time as I scramble through them looking for my favorites.
I really like the meal planner aspect of this. I do this with paper/pencil, but I’m wondering if this would be more efficient…
I liked them on Facebook!
As much as I try to keep up with my paper meal planner I’m always behind. The online version would be so helpful as I spend way more time on the computer than writing now!
Thanks so much for the giveaway.
I visited facebook and “liked” Say Mmmm
This is really a great idea. I like how you can enter your meals but also add notes about that meal or day. This makes it really handy when having company.
the calendar looks great! I have yet to find one that works well for me.
My favorite part would be how organized it would help me be. It’s all there in one place!! Looks awesome!!
My favorite part is the grocery list. That is my least favorite part of meal planning.
I became a fan on Facebook!
Working full time and trying to get healthy meals on the table in for dinner is a stuggle for meal. This looks like a great tool for helping me in that area…along with the shopping list.
I am already their fan on facebook and would love to try Say Mmm plus!
I have been using Say Mmm for a couple months and have found it very useful. I like the grocery lists that is generated for me. So helpful. My tip would be too plan ahead and stick with recipes that use in season food.
This sounds like an amazing program! I take care of all the meal planning for my large family so this would be fantastic! Thanks for doing this giveaway!
This might be just the thing to get me organized when it comes to grocery shopping & meals!
Starting out on my own and being in college makes it hard to sit down and plan out meals (the fact that I’m also learning how to cook adds another twist). I spend several hours on the computer researching for my class assignments and occasionally vegging, this website puts all the tools I need right at my fingertips-very convenient. Thanks for sharing, I plan on suggesting it to my family and friends. =)