The Dinner Solution Software Giveaway

May 31, 2009 | Filed Under Giveaway, Menu Planning | 226 Comments

Updated to add: Giveaway closed. The winner is #76 Rebecca!!

I recently had the opportunity to review a tool that assists with the whole menu planning process by allowing you to plan out your meals on a calendar, organize your recipes and print custom grocery lists. With a few clicks of your mouse, you can plan out a week of meals in minutes. It’s called The Dinner Solution and it isn’t a meal planning service but rather a software program designed to simplify and speed up menu planning in a way that is totally personalized for you and your family.

For a one time cost, you purchase the software and then easily download it from their website onto your hard drive in no time at all. It comes loaded with many recipes but you also have the option of adding your own. Then from the monthly calendar you select the recipes you’d like to make each day including sides and dessert if you’d like. You can do it by the week or even the entire month. Here’s what the calendar looks like:

Once it’s filled out to your satisfaction, click on “print reports” at the top of the page to get a complete corresponding grocery list (sorted by store aisle and store name) and fridge report. I think the fridge report is a really nice added feature as it allows your family to easily see what’s on the menu that week.

Another really great feature is that this system gives you the option of doing some freezer/once a month cooking by enabling you to menu plan and print grocery lists for both traditional meals and freezer meals all at the same time. They also provide additional tools to make your freezer meal making easy including freezer labels, a freezer inventory list to post on your freezer and grocery/checklists specifically for meal assembly day.

I find it reassuring that this software was created by two moms trying to fill a need that they saw for themselves. I’ve been emailing with one of the creators and found her to be very friendly and approachable. I identified an area that I felt could be improved on (I’d like to see the ability to add to the calendar from the recipe section directly rather than the other way around) and Karin not only appreciated the feedback but said that it would definitely be something they would look at for future upgrades. Customer service is important to me.

Have more questions about the software? You can find a list of frequently asked questions and answers here.

This ultimate menu planning and freezer cooking software is available as an instant download. Available at this time for Windows only. Price $59.95.

Karin and Kristi would love to giveaway a copy of their software today to one lucky reader. Simply leave a comment on this post by Thursday, June 4th at 6:00 pm PST to be entered.

For an additional entry you may tweet about this giveaway on Twitter (TinyURL: http://tiny.cc/vbcXn) and then come back and leave a separate comment with the link to your tweet.

A winner will be chosen using random.org.

For those that aren’t fortunate enough to win, a discount code has been provided and made available to Org Junkie readers. Use coupon code OJ25 at checkout to receive a 25% discount on your purchase of The Dinner Solution. This is a $15 savings!

THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED.

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226 Responses to “The Dinner Solution Software Giveaway”

Gretchen

I would love to win this software. Thank you for the review and the give-a-way.

april

I’m such a techno-geek and would love this!

jenny

Looks like a great program to use for those of us trying to stay organized, enjoyed reading the review, thanks!

jenny

i tweeted about it here
http://twitter.com/jenkerr1
thanks!

Ranee @ Arabian Knits

I would love to have something like this! Is it Mac compatible? I guess I’ll have to check their website out myself!

DeAna Boren

Wow, that is one great-sounding product and right up my alley! I’d love to have a copy. Thanks for the giveaway. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

deana_boren (at) yahoo (dot) com

Steph

I would love this software! Definitely enter me in the drawing, please!

Karrisa

What a cool product! I’d love to win!

Micki

What a great idea! i’m always looking for ways to make things easier.

Sounds like a great tool.

kristi

WOW! What a fabulous idea. As a newly certified teacher, I am hoping to get meals cooked and in the freezer before school begins again in August. This would be a tremendous blessing!

Holie

I would love to try out this software looks great!

Man, I would love to win this software. If I don’t I might concider buying it.

Becky R

I would LOVE this software!

Lynnae

I could use something like this! Thanks for the review & giveaway!

Wow great idea, how easy would that make things!

Okay as the dad that cooks all the meals for the three of us and soon to be four – this would absolutely make my life easier given that when I’m not in the kitchen (or cleaning the bathroom) I’m at my computer. Sign me up!!

BTW – love your blog. Thanks.

Becky

This is exactly what I’ve been looking for! It sounds GREAT!!! I’d love to win it!!!

Stacy

I would LOVE to win this! Thanks for the giveaway!

Stacy

I forgot to add that I tweeted about it! http://twitter.com/helpmeet4him

Elizabeth

Count me in! This sounds like an awesome product.
Elizabeth

Desiree

What an awesome idea! I just started really menu planning and am always looking for easier ways to combine the menu and grocery list.

Nichole

This looks amazing! What a helpful menu planning tool and environmentally friendly since you can organize everything on the computer without using as much paper.

Charmingly Cheap

Looks like fun to use!

This looks so cool! I would love to win this. I need all of the help I can get in the kitchen!

Jannesse

I’d love to win this software. It will be very helpful for me and my husband. No kids yet, but we have 2 of hubby’s sisters staying with us.

mub

This looks fantastic, I’d love to win!

vikki

Need all the help I can get planning menu’s. So please place me in the drawing, and thank you for the review. It’s always nice to know what someone that’s tried it out thinks.
Have a wonderful week,

This sounds amazing. Like something only moms would think of .

BusyMom

Interesting. I have looked for recipe organizer type software before, but I think I like how this is tied to the menu plan.

I love the refridgerator report! What a great idea to help with meal planning! I would love to get a copy. Thanks for this tip, regardless.

http://twitter.com/sires6 To see my tweet about the give away!

I think the software would be very helpful to me.

Thanks Tracy in AR

Laura

I would love to win this! I am a huge fan of meal planning!!! Thanks for the giveaway.

Hi! What a great product! I am really bad about cooking (not my favorite thing). I am even worse about cooking when I do not have a specific menu planned out. This software would really help me and my husband would be so appreciative. I would love to win this!!!! I have my fingers crossed!

I have such a hard time doing menu plans, and this looks like it would be of great help! Thanks!

Kris

I would love to win this – sounds great!

What a great idea! Doesn’t get more organized than this!

Donna Kay

I am very new at all this. I would love to win the software as I am on the computer a LOT at work. I think it would be a great asset! I have been enjoying your blog page!!
Thanks!

Sounds cool – I would love to try it!

What a great giveaway!

Winning this software would help me manage my food budget more economically; my husband was laid off from work 4/30 so we are cutting corners everywhere….. Thank you.

Would love to have this.. I’m really into menu planning and would like to learn more about freezer cooking.. I’ve done some but need some help.. thanks

tracyh

Oh my…I need this sooo badly! I love menu planning but struggle with making it simple and not a chore to do!!

Great software – useful for those who are horrible at menu planning, like me!

I am always looking for ways to get organized and make menu planning easier. I would love to win this software!

Oooohhh…I love all things about meal planning! Hope to win!

Every planning helps to keep me sane! I have friends that laugh at me when I try to give them some of my time-saving tricks, i.e. wash and cut all veggies and pre-bag items for that weeks groceries when you get home. This software would be a great addition! Thanks for all the great information you offer!

I would love to win the software. thanks for the review.

This looks really useful!

This program sounds like it will save you a lot of time and headaches.

Wow-I’d love to win this-thanks for the review! Holly

Lisa Bensley

I have been working on organizing and planning menus. It’s quite a task! This software would be such a help to me. I would LOVE to win it!

I’d love to try this out. Sounds like a great program.

I would love to win this software. I need a lot of help in the meal planning department!

Lucy Marie

I’d love to enter!

So many cooking softwares end up being a disappointment. This one looks like a winner!

Jacquie Olsen

This looks like a fabulous product. Thank you for your research and review. I love, love, love reading recipes and planning menus and being organized. It gives me energy!

This looks like a great time-saver!

Oh, I would love to give this a try!

Leah Courtney

This looks great! I’d love to win this!

I love to be organized and I am a menu planner so this software would be very fun to use and helpful also!!!

This software looks really useful!!

Wow – I could really use something like that! Of course, I mainly use a mac, but I’d be happy to go to the family PC to use something like this!

Kim

This would be awesome! I am trying to get in the habit of menu planning and this would likely be the answer!

Joyce

That would be so helpful.

Sassle

I’d love to win this! That would so help simply my life! Thanks for the chance!

I would love to win! Pick me! Pick me!

Catskills Cook

I would so so love this software. Both the geek and cook in me are drooling.

Catskills Cook

I also twittered it here:

http://twitter.com/catskillscook

Lisette

This would help me so much in my meal planning. A lot more helpful than a Word calendar.

Lisette

I twittered about your giveaway.. my sn is: corningcoupons

christi

What a great giveaway! Pick me!

Would love to have this!

This looks like a great product…I would love to be so organized!

Oh this would be wonderful, I would love to use this software for my family of six!

Every week my husband and I try to make time to sit down and plan our meals for the week. It’s not always easy to organize and think of what to make. What a great idea! I would love to win this useful tool!

Kate Hesser

I have been intrigued by this software for a while now….. i am glad you are checking it out and will be anxious to hear what you think.

~~Rhonda

Sounds like a fun and organized way to plan! Thanks for a great giveaway! ~~Rhonda

Angela

Oooo…. this would be a great tool! Thanks for the heads up about it!

Certainly sounds like a great program! I’ll certainly be looking into this further! Thanks for the review & the giveaway!!

wow, what a wonderful product! This would be so helpful in keeping all of my lists and menus organized!!

I’d love to try this out! Thanks for the review.

Anne Alagna

Ohhhh, great idea! I would love this!

April

That looks great!

Stephanie Taylor

This looks like a great product! I am trying to move my menu planning to the computer and this would be such a help. Thanks for sharing the info!

Robin Whiting

I’m a busy real estate agent and this looks like a great program to help save time for one that is always on the computer! Thanks for the review. Robin

Amanda Sikes

We are a busy family of six. This would be so helpful with the planning that must go into our food and meals to keep things running smoothly.

Jerri

Sounds great! I would love to win.

Would like to win

Great giveaway! This would be great to have!

Jen

What a great giveaway! Looks like it would be a huge help!

I would LOVE to win this!! I really need to get more organized especially with meal planning!

Mrs. Wright

I SO need this software! How easy it that!?

debi b

I also have this website ( http://healthycookingforfamilies.blogspot.com/)

This sounds FANTASTIC and just what i need to really organize myself!

debi b

I just posted about it on twitter too

https://twitter.com/debi9kids

Mercy

I WANT THIS!!!!!!!

I clicked the other day on this from your site and I fell in love at first click. First I have to say that I LOVE that you have a place to plan for prepping. That is the key in our home to getting meals on the table. I’ve often dreamed of doing freezer meals and this gives great ideas and inspires me to be more faithful to following through on that.

I actually just signed up for the e-mealz so unfortunately I can’t talk my husband into buying this software. We are having car troubles too… so, it will be awhile until I can get this, but it is SOOOOO on my list. )

It would certainly make it easier if I would just win. ;o) I don’t tweet. So, that’s out. But, I can promise to blog about it when I win. (if you’d like…)

Anyway, thanks for the giving us the chance to win!!!! (crossing fingers…)

~Mercy

i would love to win this to share with
my two daughters.

This tool sounds awesome! Thanks for the review (and the chance at a giveaway )

100

This would make my meal planning so much easier!

101

Carol Bleich

Meals are my downfall! AFter 47 years of marriage, I still haven’t figured it out! I need lots of help and this program might be my answer!!
Thanks for a chance to win it!
Carol in Michigan

102

Shelby

I love meal planning!

103

Tracee

This sounds right up my alley – would love to win!

104

tracy

This looks like a neat tool to save time and make something easier that I usually dread doing.

105

Tracee

I tweeted! Here’s the link:

http://twitter.com/Amateurdelivre

106

Sounds awesome!!!!!

107

I would love a copy of this software. Anything to make menu planning and grocery shopping easier. We do most of our shopping once a month, so I’m still trying to figure out how to make that work so I’m not digging in the back of the pantry to see what might go together for a meal.

A generous giveaway!

Denny

108

This sounds like a grat piece of software. I would love to win it so I can try it in person. Thanks for this opportunity!

109

Rheba

I would LOVE to get this software! I am always looking new solutions to old problems.

110

Rheba

Here’s my tweet: http://twitter.com/rheba/statuses/1996156588

111

Jamie Cody

This is really neat! I’ll have to check and see if they have an iPhone app.

112

Looks great! I’d love to win!

113

Melissa

Oh, what a great idea! I would love to give this a try!

114

I’d love to have this software. It’s me and hubs right now, but our kids move in and out as needed, and I’ve gotten out of the habit of strict menu planiing like I did when there were 6 of us at home.
We’ve been eating out too often to suit our budget, and this sounds like what I need to get back in gear …. in a new and high-tech wonderful way!

115

WOW! Organization, food and computers all in one! My husband would be in heaven! I’d love to win this….since right now the price is more than we can afford.

116

Stacey (Diva Mamma)

Oh my…this software looks fabulous! I haven’t started tweeting but will facebook it and put it on both of my blogs. ) There are so many Mom’s that would love this!

117

This sounds great- I am still trying to find a good system that keeps everything in one place that works for me!

118

This looks like it would be very helpful!

119

Cheap Thrills

Would love to see how the software actually works. The easier the better!

120

I own 3 cooking software programs. It looks like this beats all of them! Much simpler!! I am definitely interested. Thanks for the demo.

121

julie

Oh, My, Goooooooooodness! Is this a dream or what? Pinch me please because this sounds Ahhhhhhhhh-mazing! I would love this for me but more importantly I would love it for my family! I love to be organized but the kitchen…..well that one seems to escape me. I’d love the ease of creating a monthly mean calendar and help with a selection of recipes AND having it all at my fingertips instead of piles of papers/cook books/recipe cards and family requests. K&K, whoever you are…..I love you! Thank you for bringing the ability to become orgainzed in another area of my life that desparetly needs it. (Thanks for doing this!)

122

I love something that can help me get out of the kitchen and with my family.

123

Shannon

Wow! This is a product that seems to be right up my alley. What a great way to simplify a time consuming aspect of my life! Nice product!

124

Sounds like wonderful software. I would love to be entered.

125

Jenn

This would be a great help with all the menu planning!!!

126

Sounds better than my drawer full of recipes ripped out of magazines!

127

Looks like a wonderful program. Thank you for the giveaway.

128

Brenda T.

This looks AWESOME! What I like about it is that I can use my own recipes that I know my family already likes. Thanks for always finding new ways to help us organize our lives a little bit more!

129

Jo Murray

After reading the review I am blown away and have decided that this is not something that I need BUT it is something that I want.

It’s brilliant and would be so helpful in my household with both hubby and I trying to juggle fulltime work and life and 2 kids!! It would bring a totally new meaning to menu planning that’s for sure….

WELL DONE!!

130

I need to be more organized and sounds like this might be just the trick to do it!

131

Looks like something I would totally love. I hope I win.

132

I would love to get some new recipes for my picky family and the software would be the icing on cake! Wish me luck!

133

Cinella Reyes

Here’s my entry…. Good luck to everyone. Right now I just use google calendar, but a software to help me out would be awesome!!
Good luck,
CJR

134

Michelle

Rock on!! We so could use this software.

135

Casey {EcOnomical Mom}

This sounds like a really great program. -Anything to help me save time!!-
Thank you for the opportunity to win this!!!

136

Casey {EcOnomical Mom}

I tweeted! (I’m not sure how to give you an exact link to my specific tweet…so here is my profile link.) http://twitter.com/EcOnomicalMom

137

Tammy

I would sooo love to win this! I love meal planning and swear by it! It makes my life flow so much smoother! This software would be such a delight!
Thanks for the great opportunity!

138

Looks great! Thanks for the opportunity!

139

This software would be such an asset for a busy family. I love the concept of being able to plan a the plan out my meals on a calendar, organize my recipes and then print a custom grocery lists. Also love the frige report and the ability to intergrate freezer meal planning. What a great product!

140

Wow! This sounds awesome.

141

THIS SOUNDS LIKE HEAVEN!!!! THAT WOULD MAKE LIFE SO MUCH EASIER……

142

I would love the software!

143

I think I would love this, anything to make meal planning easier!!

144

Wendy

I was just wishing this morning I could find something easy-to-use to help with my meal-planning. Great timing, huh! Thanks!

145

Wendy

I tweeted here:

http://twitter.com/barefootmomlady

Thanks!

146

This software sounds great!

147

I have recently found your website and love the organization help you offer. This software sounds like a lovely way to begin my quest to be organized!

148

Jenny

Looks interesting, and probably more organized than my clip board is.

149

I desperately need to find a system that works and this looks fantastic!

150

Please sign me up for this. I would LOVE to win!!!

151

Oh my gosh! I’ve been looking for something exactly like the software you’re describing! My family of four is a nightmare to cook for..no one likes anything that anyone else likes; two of us are learning to be vegetarian, one is a “meat-n-potatoes only” guy,one has profound Autism and feeding that one is a guessing game every day. It would be SUCH a load off my mind to be able to plan meals and shopping lists well in advance and know that dinner would no longer be a nightly torment. I’m going to recommend this software to my best friend and my sister-in-law, too. They’d both love it! I’d love to win something this innovative and helpful..please!

152

Looks like this would be such a time-saver! I have been looking for something like this, thanks for the great ideas!

153

Crystal @ Simply Being Mommy

I’ve been trying to menu plan for years now and just can’t get the hang of it. If this could help me I’m all for it!

Thanks for the chance!

crystal_reagan at hotmail dot com

154

Crystal @ Simply Being Mommy

I tweeted. I’m not sure how to leave a link but my twitter name is @simplybeingmom.

crystal_reagan at hotmail dot com

155

Shannon

Never seen a product like this!
Very Cool. Would love to win it.

156

I would love to win this software. It sounds like it has everything to make it easier on me.

157

I tweeted about it:

http://twitter.com/kraftykristy

158

Barbie

I would use this for sure.

159

What a great tool!!

160

Looks like a fun project.

161

I’d love to win this! I meal plan every week, but I’m so busy that this would save me a lot of time and hassel.

162

I would love to try this!

163

Sounds like a great help. Sure would like this.

164

Cathy Shauklas

I am so excited to have a chance to win this.
I definitely need help in the area of menu planning and grocery lists.

165

Karin I’d love to win this, I have a house full of kids to feed and this sure would help This looks great!

166

This software sounds wonderful! I’m a big
fan of freezer cooking, and it would be
a great way to get organized in the kitchen
Shurli

167

This sounds fabulous!

168

Stefanie

This sounds like a wonderful software! Thanks for the review!

169

Boy, could I use this. I am new to menu planning and this would make it so much easier. Thanks!

170

This would save my marriage. ha ha. actually winning this software would be an answer to prayers.

171

Alaina @ Three Ladies and a Dad

What a great idea!

172

Teri

This sounds awesome! Thanks for the giveaway!

173

I am really trying to become a meal planning mom, but I struggle with it. I think this software might really help me to get organized and stick with it – so that we can save money and feed our family in a healthy way. Thanks for this opportunity!

174

Erin

This would be so wonderful for us. I’m an organizing freak and this would contribute to that

175

Jenn @ Beautiful Calling

Now if only it would make the meals I plan as well! LOL.
Please enter me!

176

I’d love this!

177

This would be fantastic!

178

I would love to have this software. I have such a busy schedule and it would definitely help me organize my weekly menu.

179

What a great idea. Thanks for the review!

180

This looks like a great program! Thanks for the opportunity to win it!

181

Erin @ One Particular Kitchen

That is BRILLIANT. I love it!

182

Dionne

Sounds like something I could use!

183

This software rocks! I might actually get organized enough to plan my meals now! Just in time for baby #3.

184

Kelly

sounds interesting and amazing!!!

185

Kim

This sounds wonderful. Count me in!

186

Meghan

Looks like it would be a great tool!

187

Katy

I want this so badly! This is perfect for a menu planning computer freak like me!!!

188

Katy

I tweeted about it! Every chance is worth it!
http://twitter.com/kmfj114

189

Deedee

I’d love to win this!

190

What a great resource!!!

191

Rhonda Burkhalter

I love your Menu Plan Monday and the process you take in getting it done, however, I am slightly (okay A LOT) ADD and I don’t have the patience to sit down and do what you do. This product is the solution! Thanks for checking it out and letting us get in on the giveaway and the discount code.

192

Elizabeth

YAY! This would be a great help!!

193

Elizabeth

http://twitter.com/1tof_2hh_mommy

Thanks!!

194

I would love to add this resource to our daily routine.

Thanks.

195

Wow! What a neat tool! Count me in for the giveaway.

196

Meg

Ah, how easy this would make meal planning! I’ll join the others in the pool for the giveaway.

197

kat

Wow, this software sounds incredible!!! I would love to win. It takes me forever to plan my meals, I sit with a stack of cookbooks and then get sidetracked, this would help tremendously.

198

Wow, this looks like a great tool! Thanks for a chance to win it.

199

What an awesome idea1 It’s the sitting down, planning, making a legible list,then forgetting it all that has been holding me up-this solves all of that

200

Ooooh, please please please let me win this… our bank account would really appreciate not having to send money to so many restaurants that we end up eating out at due of lack of planning ability.

201

This software sounds like exactly what I have been looking for- I have a hard time with menu planning because it takes to much TIME. I think this could be the answer- espcially if it creates grocery lists and organizes them the way that I want. Add a section that matches up with coupons and it would be perfect for organizing and money saving!

202

This looks like it would be great to help get me organized. I find it so hard to meal plan.

203

This sounds awesome! This is my first time to your website and I love what I have found. We need a more organized way to plan meals at our house and this makes sense! I would love to try it!

204

I really need to figure out dinner plans ahead so this seems like it is just what i need!

205

http://twitter.com/makyjaxmama

thanks!

206

Sounds like a fun tool to use!

207

Diane

It sounds like something I desperately need.

208

Heather Walker

I have gotten so off track with meal planning and this would definately help out alot, especially since I have a 2 yr old and I need kid-friendly ideas!

209

This sounds like something I could use and actually stick with.

210

Toni

What a great idea! This system would definitely help me plan and organize meals better!

211

jennifer engelbrecht

I would love a chance to win this software. Looks pretty neat.

212

Nicole

This would make dinner planning so easy. I’d love to win.

213

Erin

Pick me, Pick me!

214

How absolutely ironic that I spent 4 days searching for this very type of program last week!

It would be fantastic to be able to win a copy. Thank you for the opportunity

215

Talk about a time saver—wow—great idea—would love one

216

I would LOVE to win this!!!

217

Kate Hesser

This software is amazing. I could be such a rockstar with this!

218

LAWANNA DORAN

I’d love to have this!

219

oooh ohhh ohhh oooohhh pick me pick me pick me!!!!!!

220

Something that helps me do my most dreaded chore. Crossing my fingers.

221

Charity

very cool. sounds like something i can use.

222

This sounds just like what I have been looking for.

223

Would love to be able to use this to plan meals…thansk!

224

Did you already give this away? Did I miss it? oh, man. This would so help me out. Aack!

225

wow, what a gr8 product. Just starting to meal plan and land up spending at least a couple of hrs or more every weekend and not always succeeding in getting all the ingredients/recipes etc. organised. Please , oh please pick me, v r on a single income and can’t really afford to purchase right right now.

Thanks in advance.

226

Ever since I found this website, life has been so much easier for me and my family. I plan my meals ahead of time and only shop for what I need. I also use coupons, which has been such a great experience. I hope to win this software. It will help me a lot in the future!

Thanks

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