Lily On The Fly – A Menu Planning Resource – Enter to Win!

June 6, 2008 | Filed Under Menu Planning | 238 Comments

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Updated: This contest is now closed. The winner is chksngr!!

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I recently had the opportunity to review an excellent menu planning resource. It’s called Lily On The Fly. This particular product is different than any I’ve seen before for menu planning and is definitely beneficial for the visual person. This system centers around the magnetized card holder that can be displayed on your refrigerator. It includes 7 clear slots, one for each day of the week. What goes into these slots are the handy dandy menu planning recipe cards that are also provided. On the front of each card are three sections listing cooking instructions, one for the night before, in the morning and put it all together. The shopping list for each meal is right on the back on each card conveniently listed in seven general grocery store areas. Look how colorful it is:

Once you have selected 7 cards to put into the slots you have a complete menu plan for the week and when you turn the holder over you have a complete grocery list going down the back. You can then transpose the grocery list to a piece of paper to take to the store with you, take the whole holder with you or even just pull out the cards and bring them with you that way.

Another option as Lily On The Fly suggests (and hence the name) is to keep the deck of cards in your purse and easily choose recipes right in the store as you think through your plans for the next few days, and what is on sale. I love how versatile it is!!

My girlfriend struggles with traditional menu planning but really loves this system because for her she loves her recipes all in one spot rather than having to keep track of them from different sources such as various cookbooks or the internet. That’s too much hassle for her, this system streamlines the process for her.

The recipes look to be simple and easy to prepare and I love how each card shows a picture of the completed dish, a very nice touch! A list of the 36 recipes included in the starter kit can be found here. The starter kit retails for $27.95 but for the month of June you can get 15% of your order by using the code “Welcome Summer”. Additional recipes packs are also available.

Lily On The Fly is giving away a Hearty Meals for Hungry Families Starter Kit today to one lucky reader. Just leave a comment below by Tuesday, June 10th at noon pst for your chance to win. If you are not a blogger please be sure to also include a valid email address.

Happy menu planning!!

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238 Responses to “Lily On The Fly – A Menu Planning Resource – Enter to Win!”

What a great idea!! I would love to be entered into the drawing for the give away. Thanks for a wonderful looking, and streamlined product!!

jacyrogers@hotmail.com

I think this product is GREAT!

kimmiekinkins@tds.net

What an awesome resource! A great way to create your menu plan! I would love to be entered!

I would love to have this. christinabagne@yahoo.com

I would be Soooo Lucky to win this!

Tiffany at http://www.ushouldbesolucky.blogspot.com

Oh wow! Thanks for a great giveaway! I would love that.

Oh, I would love this. I’ve tried a lot of menu planners and this one sounds great.

blahdidum@hotmail.com

Oh what a neat idea!! And a fabulous giveaway!

What a fantastic idea! I’ve been dying to find something to keep me motivated to plan menus! Pick me! Pick me!

Great idea!!! I love it!

I would love to try this… what a great give away idea!! Thanks.

Love it! I need all the help I can get!

Irene

ireneschat@hotmail.com

Oh, please enter me for my husband. I guess I grew up with a creative mom because I have learned to make a meal from what I have on hand. But my husband has to have the menu then buys the groceries. This will certainly help him out. Please enter us!

I would definitely like to be included! Thank you!

That is a really cool idea. I have a hard time putting my meals together and getting everything I need on my shopping list. Please enter me into your drawing. richnstef92@yahoo.com Thanks.

How clever! My menu planning needs some serious intervention, lol. Thanks for the chance to win!

Sounds good to me! I love to mix things up a bit.

My menu planning is in dire need of intervention too. Thanks for this opportunity to win something so useful and innovative!

Awesome! I would love to win this. Thanks for the chance.

Please pick me! My husband would love for me to win this! Then he wouldn’t get the “honey can you pick up…” phone calls on his way home from work as often.

I really like the idea of taking the meal/recipes to the store with you. It would make it so much easier to shop the sales without having to waste the paper associated with getting the ads. Definitely enter me in this contest.

With another baby on the way, I’d love to try this colorful method! What a great giveaway!

Oh what a fun way to meal plan!!

That actually looks like fun!
bhiebert@pldi.net

This looks really neat!! This busy mom of five could use a spruce up in her meal planning!

I so need this! Well my family would love me if I got this.
http://www.agsoccermom.blogspot.com

I just found your site and love everything!

wow this sounds like a great way to stick to a healthy meal program! I’ve been looking for something like this for a while now. Thanks for all your great ideas on your blog… Its so helpful/inspirational for someone like me that has a cluttered life!
-sahana

My email is sahanau@gmail.com

Very cool. I would love to spread out cards and allow my family to help with menu planning.

What a great idea. It reminds me of the old Richard Simmons Deal a Meal thing. I would love to win.

Jennifer

Would love this – thanks for the heads-up on a great product!

What a fantastic idea!! ajkatz74@gmail.com

Please include me — and if I don’t win, I think I’ll make something like this with my own cards! Love it!

I’m eager to begin meal planning. What a seemingly great too!

Looks like a cool product, very colorful. I’d love to win this and try it out!

Lorri
http://lorri-gratitude.blogspot.com

Great idea–I love the carry-around cards.

Gina B

This is such a great idea. I do my best to plan my meals, but this would be such a fun way to do it!

What an interesting menu planning tool.

What a fantastic idea. I so need one.
Lisa

Could this be the answer to all my problems?

Cool idea! Very different from anything I’ve seen. Sign me up!!

I am all over this whether I win it here or purchase it!! Thanks again Laura you’re amazing

cool, count me in, please!

Sign me up! Thanks!

This sounds fantastic! Please enter me!!

What a great idea!

I love your site and all your ideas.

Very, very cool! Menu planning is important at our busy house, and anything to make it easier is great!

Oh, that sounds neat!

I love this – i would hope to win and make my menu planning a breeze!
Love your blog!

Melanie
.com

That sounds great…I would love that!

This looks perfect!

interesting! i was much better about planning menus until i had a toddler. now it’s not getting done, and with food and gas prices the way they are, this is when i REALLY should be doing it!

count me in, please!

What an awesome idea!! I had never seen that before!

How clever!

This looks great!

i need desperate menu planning help….SOS

What a neat product! Maybe this would help me with my lack of motivation to make menu planning a habit, not just a once-in-a-while thing.

This is a GREAT idea…for once, menu planning where I’m not writing and writing and writing and writing…and my DH could actually do some of the cooking!

Looks like a great product!!

Looks like something I really could use! Thanks for sharing the info.

I would love to be entered!

WOW!! What a neat idea!! I always have trouble with meal plans. Don’t mind the cooking if I didn’t have to plan. Count me in for the giveaway!

Ashleigh

What a great idea! I keep cooking the same things over and over again, and it would be nice to be able to get some variety in there if I were more organized. Thanks for posting your review!

~Kristi

Looks like an AWESOME product for the working mom/dad with a 4yr old a baby #2 on the way!!!

I’d like to be entered in the drawing. Thanks!

Katy @ sppumpkin@sbcglobal.net

Oh me, pick me, pick me. I need something to get me back in the groove again!

Great giveaway!

paloma916@yahoo.com

This looks great! I’d love to try it…my menu planning sure could use a boost!

miss_k_p@yahoo.com

This looks great!!

Great idea, now I just need to keep my fingers crossed that I’ll win and my kids will like the recipies!

I would love to be enetered in the contest. That product looks awesome!
Amy
writers4@comcast.net

I always need help menu planning! This looks great!

llsmithx4@gmail.com

How fun is this!

I tried leaving a comment before and I think it got deleted…

anywho.. count me in

What a neat planner! I used to plan like this for a while with homemade cards I made with recipes.

I’m just getting started with menu planning and I need all the help I can get!

A plan?!! For menus?!! That doesn’t involve opening the fridge and saying “Hmmmmm” for a lengthy period of time?!! Sweet.

This is seriously the coolest thing ever. My mom does all the cooking for both her household and mine, she is truly a blessing to me and keeps me sane so I can work and go to school. I would love to be entered into the drawing so I could win it for my mom. Thanks!!

looks like a fun product.

Looks like something I need as a full-time working first time mom.
-angie b.

Oooh, those look so fun!

OOH! Pick me! Pick me! (is that too desperate?) I’m new to menu planning and would love this. Thanks for having the contest!

This sounds like a great idea. At this point I’d try anything to stop the stress in my house. Please pick me I struggle with menu planning each week. I always start out doing it and then life takes over and I don’t have the time to continue doing it. Please help.

So cool! I’d love to have one!

What an awesome idea!

tommyandjenn@cox.net

What a fantastic idea!! I love your website and all your great ideas. cldj40@yahoo.com

I would love to be entered in the drawing. I am just starting to use a meal plan and the first week took a really long time to get started. This tool would be a great help!

This looks like a fabulous tool!

bleucowgirl AT hotmail DOT com

So cool. I love the idea

Looks like something I could really use!

I’m not sure how much we’d use the recipes that come with it, since we’re vegetarian, but I love the idea of the plastic sleeves & re-usable cards, so I’m sure I could easily enough make my own cards using recipes/meals we like to slide in the sleeve Count me in!

Wow, I would love to win something like this. I have been struggling with meal-planning. I work full-time and am trying to save money and I KNOW meal-planning is an important step! Thanks for offering!

Such a great idea! I am struggling with menu planning, especially since summer is in full-swing here, and this would be great for me!
Angie

As a new home daycare owner and a mom of 2 little girls, I soooo could use every little bit of help for menu planning! This would help me out soooo much!!

Diane

This sounds like a great idea!

I’ve got my fingers crossed!

Looks neat!
Pleebles@verizon.net

As usual, a wonderful giveaway! Like the many before me I would love to be entered in the drawing for this nifty little idea.

Wow, this is great. I’d love to try this out. I have the hardest time w/ menu planning.

This is so cool. I would love to win! sgarris@gmail.com

100

Neat Idea!

withanangelonmyshoulder@gmail.com

101

Ooh! Count me in!

102

Ooh, ooh, pick me!!!

103

What a handy, dandy tool. I hope I win!

104

Wow! What a cool sounding system! I’d love to give this a try!

105

Wow, that is really cool! I so often find myself on the internet or flipping through cookbooks at 6:30 pm!!

106

This is great! I would love the help!! Enter me please!!!

107

this is really cool – i’ve seen similar things but not one that seems this convenient or as pretty :O) i would love one!

108

Awesome idea! I love to menu plan, but could always use something to make it more fun!

jforbeck@tctelco.net

109

What a great way to try new recipes! I’m always making the same things over and over. This would make it so much easier to plan variety!

110

Neat! I need all the help I can get with meal planning.

111

I admit that this was made for me! A match made in heaven.

112

What a great idea.. I love to menu plan and am also looking for new recipes to try..

113

This is so awesome! Please enter me!

114

I have been wanting to menu plan forever, but have always gotten lost somewhere between figuring out what to have and actually making it. This sounds like it would be perfect. I have book marked the page to go and check it out. Thanks

115

Too COOL! I would love to win this!

Thanks for the giveaway!

Lroebuck1@msn.com

116

I soo need this. My pregnant brain can’t handle menu planning right now and we need it more than ever. Thanks for the giveaways.

117

I could use all the help I could get!

118

This is a really amazing idea, so creative and very helpful! I have just started menu planning and it has proven to be very useful. I work full time as well as help my hubby pastor a church and am raising three active boys, this would definately make the one area of my life easier! Great giveaway!

119

Looks like a great giveaway! Thanks!

120

What a great giveaway!

121

This sounds like a great idea… Fun giveaway! Thanks!

122

Who wouldn’t need this or want to use it. I hope I win, this looks great!

123

I so need to win this! My oldest daughter is due the beginning of July, my youngest daughter just had a baby girl in May. My oldest and her husband moved back in to save for a house, and mealtime anytime is so stressful! All the men in our family work so hard all day long, and it’s sad when I don’t know what’s for dinner.
ktiques@cox.net

124

That is a great idea. I would love to try this!

125

Interesting idea! Count me in.

126

Fabbo idea – please count me in!
Thanks

127

I would LOVE to win this!!! I just got on the menu planning bandwagon and love it.
Shay

128

What a great idea!

129

Please sign me up! I can use all the help I can get!!!

130

wow, I need this… meal planning is a struggle for me! THanks laura!

131

This product would be an awesome tool for our family. My daughter is learning how to cook and this would make it exciting for her.

bevsclark @ gmail . com

132

This would be such a help to me! Thanks!

133

Cool idea!

134

Please count me in!
Thank you!

135

Great contest!

136

I would love to win that. This is the one area of organizing that I am finding difficult.
thanks Diane
dimoe@writeme.com

137

Thanks! I am meal planning challenged, so I’d love to enter .

138

That looks like the best thing to have for us meal planners who run out of ideas. I usually find weekly meal planners in the magazines but they only give you one week which still leaves you with three to figure out what to make. This definitely would be very handy.

Hugs!!!!
craftyncer@gmail.com

139

Wow, what a great idea. I have been looking for a system like this. This will come in handy. Thanks for the chance to win.

janicehorne2@cox.net

140

Sounds like a great product. I could really use this. Thanks for the chance to win! Lee
albroom@bellsouth.net

141

I love this what a great idea.

142

Please choose me!

cccanody@gmail.com

143

Very cool!

144

I haven’t seen anything like this before! Sounds intriguing. Thanks for the info and the giveaway!

145

What a neat product! Thanks for doing the giveaway.

146

This is great! Anything that will help make my life easier!!!

147

This looks so helpful! Please count me in!
meg (dot) wilson (at) gmail (dot) com

148

What a cool product. Please enter me to win!

149

That looks like it would be fun to try! I love anything that makes meal planning and grocery shopping easier!

150

What a timely post. I’ve just started meal planning to help with grocery costs. Thanks!

151

Pick me, Pick me!
johnlittleford@bellsouth.net

Laura L.

152

OH, Pretty! I really need help w/menu planning, this looks great..
Thanks!

seansmuhma@aol.com

153

Looks like a great idea!

154

This is exactly what I have been needing! I love it! I would love to be entered in your drawing.

155

That looks great!!!

156

With a picky 3 year old and a new baby, this would be a blessing. I have got to check into buying one of these if I don’t win. I like your site so much. I always find a little tidbit here and there that help me out! Thank you!

157

I’ve just recently really gotten serious about menu planning and it is a huge time and sanity saver! I’d love to win this tool to help me along. Thanks for the chance.

158

This sounds great. With a baby due in a couple months I could use the extra help in getting my menu done quicker!

159

This sounds really neat!

160

Menu planning for lazy people…I LOVE it! Honestly, I think that’s half my problem…winning this sure would solve that!

krismissbaby@yahoo.com

161

I think I would like to try this. Please enter me.

Hugs,
Melinda

162

Wow! This looks wonderful! I’d love to be entered into the giveaway.

Lori

163

Fabulous idea! Please enter me.

papercandy@gmail.com

164

wow! What a wonderful wedding gift this would make for the new bride. Please count me in on a chance to win this!

165

Please enter me!

166

I would love to win this! Please enter me, thanks!

167

Oh my gosh, I would LOVE this!

168

Enter me please!

love_cats05@yahoo.com

169

Sounds great!
Thanks so much!

170

Growing up we had the same exact menu every week. It was mostly from a box hardly anything from scratch. I struggle with setting a menu and I have a husband who loves homemade mashed potatoes and other homemade items. This system sounds like it might actually work!
Thanks for opportunity to win.
Darla
Darla.Leatherman@uscm.org

171

Me me me me !!! I have been trying to menu plan but it isn’t working so well. I am organizationally challenged!

172

This would help so much with my goal to be organized.
Thanks for the great give away.

173

This is something that I could use! I’d love to be in the drawing.

174

This looks like an awesome idea and a very easy way to plan! I am sitting here trying to make my weekly menu plan before I go to the grocery store tommorow…I googled something and your site with this giveaway came up!! Maybe that means I will win…Lord knows I need help right about now!
Great giveaway!

175

Count me in!

176

What a great idea! Count me in!

177

What a fantastic idea! Much more attractive than my scrawled notes I hide on the SIDE of the fridge! I would love to use something like this to assist me with meal planning.
bel@spiralgarden.com.au

178

This definitely makes menu planning sound pretty easy. I checked out their website and I love that they offer “make your own card” cards. I would be all over those.

179

Interesting menu planner. I would love to try it out. Please enter me in your giveaway. Thanks!!

180

This would be so helpful for my meal planning…it does take time to look up all the recipes on different sites. Please put me in your drawing..thanks! Amy lvs2knit@gmail.com

181

I definately need a jump start to help with my sporadic menu planning…this would be a huge help for me!

182

THe graphics are super cute. Thanks for the giveaway!
Danelle

183

What a great product! I’ve been trying to get myself started with menu planning for a while now. Even though I understand (thanks to your posts!) the benefits of menu planning, I have yet to start. This may be just what I need!

Thanks for a great giveaway!

184

I also love how the finished dish is pictured – that can definitely be encouraging when trying something new!! Grocery lists are always helpful as well. Great idea & thx for the giveaway!

185

Great idea! Please include me in the giveaway.

186

Neat idea! Sounds like a fun way to meal plan.

187

Ooh,ooh, pick me! I think meal planning has become a hobby of mine!!!

188

What a cute and clever idea! I wish I’d thought of it.

Since I didn’t, I’ll keep my fingers crossed to win instead.

189

This is so much fun – I would love to win this – I LOVE being organized.

190

This looks awesome. I am new to menu planning and I know this would be helpful.
ali.sarouhan@gmail.com

191

This looks like such a great system. I know meal planning can help lower grocery costs and I think this would really help me! Great giveaway! Thanks for offering this!
~Tanya
the4moyers(at)msn(dot)com

192

Oh wow that looks fantastic. I have been meaning to get a planner for AGES now and this might just be the one.

193

Hope I win. I could use some new planning inspiration.

194

Wow. What a great idea! I would love to win one:)

195

Oh, what a great idea!

196

OH I wanna win! I wanna win!

Thanks for the opportunity!!!

Stacey @
http://www.KissesfromtheFather.blogspot.com

197

That is such a great idea!

198

This sounds like a really neat resource! I’d love to give it a try!
Karen
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/salt

199

Sounds really neat!!

oklahomajamie @ gmail.com
(remove the spaces)

200

This looks like a nice tool!

201

I would love this!

202

Wow this looks like it would be really helpful. I have four kids under 6 and meal planning is a struggle. Here’s hoping I win!

203

This looks like a great product. Sometimes I forget to get some of the ingredients I need for my weekly recipes because I don’t have them with me. So please enter me.

204

With a 3 day old baby and two toddlers ruuning around, I’m finding it hard to find meals to do my meal planning with, not having hours to scour the net anymore… please enter me, this looks like a great tool!

205

I need all the help I can get, please enter me into the drawing.

Maura

206

oops! Forgot to leave my email:
bayouags@yahoo.com (this is Jennifer with 3 kids + one more coming soon).

Please tell me sleep will come one day!

207

That looks like a really clever tool! My kids would enjoy using it too, to help with the menu ideas. Thanks for hosting this contest.

208

Please Enter me in the contest as I am always looking for new recipes and ideas for my family!
Thanks!
Kelly Bryan
Bryan45@bellsouth.net

209

This looks like a great product. I’d love to try it!

210

I really need this! Please enter me-
Alycia

211

Great giveaway!

212

I would really love to try this product out and see if it helps me meal plan better.

213

whoops! forgot to leave my email…… juliev@oads.com
Thanks!

214

What an awesome little tool! I’d love to win something like this. My hubby could even use it to plan meals when the new baby arrives in a couple of months.

215

This looks great! My email addy is, jlynnhoskins22@hotmail.com

216

Oh man, I would LOVE this tool. I need all the help I can get!

217

Crossing my fingers that I get lucky!

218

What a great idea, I have never seen a menu planning system like that. Please enter me into the contest. Thank you.

manthony2@rogers.com

219

Wow, this is a great idea! If I don’t win I may have to fork over the cash and buy one.

220

Give it to me please!

221

What a great product!!!

222

Please enter me. My husband is actually the family cook but I know this is exactly the kind of thing that would inspire him!

223

This looks great, I need all the help I can get when it comes to meal planning.
mommytoabby@cox.net

224

I really need this. It would transform my meal making life. Please enter me in the contest.

225

Oh I’d love to try it!!!!! Pick me, I need some serious help and I’m moving soon!

226

Sounds very useful and exciting!
Rhonda
swapteammod@sbcglobal.net

227

As a mother of 3 with an infant i could always be more organized! This tool would really help!

bentzmom3@yahoo.com

228

I would love to be entered. Thank you !!

229

I struggle with meal planning. This looks like an awesome method for organizing.

Thanks!

Duckabush Blog

230

Looks very useful!

231

Wow! I love menu planning and this site looks great! Chris

thewindmin@cfaith.com

232

Nice prize!

233

An awesome tool for me!!
janene1627 (at) yahoo (dot) com

234

count me in please

235

what a wonderful idea. its one of those i think why didn’t i think of that. would love this

236

This is a great idea. Please enter me!

237

I’m always one day late when it comes to these blog contest.

http://organizeddoodles.blogspot.com/

238

what a wonderful idea. I need something to help with my meal planning.

rachel
mycuteginger at yahoo dot com

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