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Take the Guesswork out of Meal Planning with Relish (and Enter to Win a Slow Cooker!)

RelishI don't know how it is in your house, but for us meal planning can be something of a challenge. Sure, we have the best of intentions, but all too often end up in the typical weekday dinner rut—grabbing a rotisserie chicken at the supermarket or calling the pizza delivery guy.

I recently had the chance to check out Relish, an online meal planning resource that helps take the guesswork out of the daily question "What's for dinner?" Each week, Relish offers its users 15 delicious and easy recipes. The recipe selection changes every Thursday morning, and you have the option of choosing kid friendly, vegetarian, simple gourmet, or super quick recipes. Each weekly menu comes with a custom grocery list that you can print out and bring with you to the store or farmer's market, so you don't have to worry about forgetting to write down any necessary ingredients. With Relish, the cost to purchase groceries for five dinners and side dishes averages $90. Not bad for a week of stress-free dining.

Relish also offers recipes for handy freezer meals that you can cook in advance and heat up on those days when you don't have time to cook a full meal from scratch. They even include printable freezer labels and cooking instructions.

Membership to Relish is just $7 a month, or $5 if you sign up for an entire year. Other features for members include the ability to search recipes by ingredient and category, a favorites folder for your family's best-loved recipes, editor's picks highlighting great meal suggestions, and the ability to sync menus, recipes, and shopping lists to your iPhone or iPad. You can also give membership to Relish as a gift.

For more information, visit www.relishrelish.com. Marin Mommies readers can also check out Relish for free with a two-week free trial! Visit Relish online, click on "Redeem a voucher", and enter the promo code MARINMOM.

Favorite Slow Cooker Recipes, and a Chance to Win One from Marin Mommies and Relish!

To get a sample of what Relish has to offer, you can download Relish's top-five slow cooker recipes here (PDF). Recipes include traditional beef burgundy, a Southern-inspired slow cooker chicken dinner, slow cooker Dr. Pepper BBQ pork (yes, with Dr. Pepper in it, really), old-fashioned barbeque beef sandwiches, and slow cooker mu shu chicken wraps. Appropriate side dish recipes and shopping lists are included.

Of course you'll have to have a slow cooker to make all this great stuff, so we're partnering with Relish to give one away! One lucky Marin Mommies reader will one a programmable stainless steel slow cooker. To enter, send an email to contests@marinmommies.com with "Relish" in the subject line by 11:59 pm Pacific time on Tuesday, August 23. We'll choose a random winner on Wedensday, August 24. See our complete contest and giveaway rules here.