Get Healthy, Get Thrifty and Get Dinner - 9 Recipes Under 400 Calories & Less Than $4

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Contrary to the results of many of the dinners I've produced for my family, I actually like to cook. 

Unfortunately, the other parts of life like work, keeping up the house and all that other stuff seem to suck the time and enjoyment of making perfectly delicious meals that are good for my family AND taste good, too. 

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Add the fact that I'm really working to get the weight off of me, I just don't have time to plan two sets of every meal - including the grocery store wandering, budget planning and food prep.  I mean I barely have time to make sure I get 8 oz of water...(no joke!) That, my friends, is called a short order cook and unless the kids are going to start tipping, then I'm definitely not going to keep entertaining that idea. 

Emeals takes almost everything off your shoulders by providing a seven-day menu, recipes and the shopping list as well. They do everything short of pushing your grocery cart and washing dishes....and I promise if that service comes up soon, I'll be on that subscription list, too. 

The other night we enjoyed Garlic Shrimp with Blistered Tomatoes and Linguine and it didn't take me any time at all except boiling the water. Thankfully with my 33 years of experience, I have water boiling down. And with the help of eMeals, you'll have dinner making down and can actually spend time of the fun stuff...like dishes, laundry and good night kisses. 

Low Calorie Dinner Recipe: Garlic Shrimp with Blistered Tomatoes and Linguine

Ingredients

• 12 oz uncooked whole grain linguine
• 2 pints cherry or grape tomatoes
• 2 tablespoons olive oil, divided
• ½ teaspoon salt, divided
• ½ teaspoon crushed red pepper
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 2 lb large shrimp, peeled and deveined
• 4 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 cup crumbled feta cheese

Instructions

1. Preheat broiler.
2. Cook pasta according to package directions.
3. Meanwhile, toss tomatoes with 1 tablespoon oil, ¼ teaspoon salt and red pepper on a rimmed baking sheet.
4. Broil 4 to 5 minutes or until tomatoes burst.
5. Melt butter in a large skillet with remaining 1 tablespoon oil.
6. Sprinkle shrimp with ¼ teaspoon salt; saute shrimp and garlic 2 to 3 minutes or until shrimp turn pink.
7. Toss shrimp with tomato mixture.
8. Divide pasta evenly among 6 shallow bowls.
9. Top with shrimp and tomato mixture.
10. Sprinkle each serving with cheese.

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At less than $4 and under 400 calories, I think that looks like a winner. So take the work at dinner and get your eMeals delivered to you each week with everything you need to plan for great, healthy dinners. 

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Unlike most moms I know, I actually LOVE to go to the grocery store. I like to peruse the aisle, dream of what meals to make and just get my hands on fresh vegetables, meats and just enjoy food at its best. Unfortunately, time doesn't really allow for a two-hour trip for fun and certainly not the full list of necessary family things I have to buy before I enjoy my time. So I end up running in the store with 45 minutes to pick up $200 of groceries just to get home and not have anything to make for dinner. 

And at the holidays? I am that person running in the store at the nth hour throwing things in the cart and returning five more times before I get Thanksgiving on the table. At that point, I'm not so in love with the grocery store and I spent way more than the budget allows.  

However, I just had found out there's a better option for all this poor planning AND I can even save money in the long run with emeals. Recommended by budget guru Dave Ramsey, emeals sends you an email once a week a list of groceries and menus to make things easier (and cheaper) for you when you go to the grocery store. Basically, emeals takes all the work out of the work of going to the grocery store and allows me to enjoy it again. 

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On a special diet or eating plan? No problem. They have choices based on your changing diet. From Paleo, Slow Cooker, or just Clean Eating - emeals has it covered. I appreciate having my time and money back by using emeals for all our meals - breakfast through dinner. And the holidays aren't an exclusion either! Right now you can get a full holiday plan for free when you sign up with 15% discount to boot when you use this link. 

Can you imagine making Thankgsiving dinner easy and with one trip to the store? Or are you still trying to stay on a healthy plan without sacrificing Thanksgiving tradition? Just check out this recipe for clean eating Toasted Pecan Tart by emeals. (I can smell warm pecan pie baking as I think about it.) 

With all these options, emeals is a great choice for moms and dads looking to save time and money so they can spend it in the places it really counts. Unless you enjoy spending hours couponing and recipe planning, then emeals is definitely worth considering when you are looking to solve one of mama's biggest challenges.