6 o'clock scramble good on a budget?

[Anonymous]

I had a subscription to the Scramble and I liked it a lot for the first year, although I don't think it saved money. (Didn't cost more money, necessarily, just didn't save.) I tended to make 2-3 of the meals and skip the rest, but it was still worth it. The problem came, though, after the first year, when the recipes started repeating--often two or even three of the weekly recipes would be previous recipes! I emailed the author and she confirmed that they were indeed repeats, and says she repeats recipes after one year. That just made it not worth it to us anymore (why pay for something we already had?), so we let our subscription lapse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had a subscription to the Scramble and I liked it a lot for the first year, although I don't think it saved money. (Didn't cost more money, necessarily, just didn't save.) I tended to make 2-3 of the meals and skip the rest, but it was still worth it. The problem came, though, after the first year, when the recipes started repeating--often two or even three of the weekly recipes would be previous recipes! I emailed the author and she confirmed that they were indeed repeats, and says she repeats recipes after one year. That just made it not worth it to us anymore (why pay for something we already had?), so we let our subscription lapse.

She does repeat, but she adds new recipes and tweaks things all of the time. I've used the service off and on for the last 5 years. Periodically I stop and then I pick it up again. Generally this happens when I've hit a rut and I'm tired of planning meals. It saves me time and it's nice to have everything organized for the week. It really helps my husband. If he gets home before me he knows to flip to the next page and get started on dinner. He doesn't have to call me and find out what I have planned.