Typical Cost:  free to $36 per year

At-Home or Direct Mail Plan Available?  Yes

Allrecipes

400 Mercer St., Suite 302

Seattle, WA 98109

206-292-3990

Website: www.allrecipes.com

Allrecipes^Ò (www.allrecipes.com) is a leading community-based recipe and meal planning web site on the Internet. This is claimed to be one of the most popular food sites on the Internet. Your free membership grants you access to your own personalized recipe box, shopping list, and more. You can rate and review recipes, submit your family's favorite recipes, even create your own Allrecipes^Ò home page. Allrecipes^Ò recently celebrated its fifth anniversary in August 2002.

According to the company: "The site traces its roots back to 1997, when a team of web developers at Emergent Media, Inc. decided to combine their love of cooking with their Internet expertise. Realizing that the Internet had the potential to create a virtual worldwide community cookbook, they decided to build a recipe exchange web site. Thousands of people submitted their family favorite recipes and over time, became loyal members of the Allrecipes^Ò community."

The site offers homemakers unique food ideas and resources (including recipes, menu ideas, meal preparation tips, special diet content, culinary equipment and news). Allrecipes^Ò has been mentioned in thousands of print publications nationwide and in broadcast features. In addition, Allrecipes^Ò has won numerous awards.

According to Neilson-NetRatings property report for June 2002, the Allrecipes^Ò community had grown to nearly 2 million U.S. unique visitors. The site is ranked consistently among the top two food-related web sites on the Internet and has been either the #1 or #2 Internet food site 19 out of the last 20 months dating back to September 2000.

In early 2000, the company merged all of its distinct recipe sites into one seamless recipe destination. With a vast database of home cook-submitted recipes, they made it easy for the Allrecipes^Ò community to search for any recipe across the entire network of sites. Allrecipes^Ò also introduced "My Recipe", a free, private, personalized and easy-to-use meal planning resource that allows homemakers to store, organize, rank, review and share their favorite recipes on the Allrecipes^Ò network. Allrecipes^Ò’ original newsletter has grown to serve over 620,000 subscribers every other week.

Allrecipes^Ò also entered into several alliances with special diet gurus like Diabetes Forecast, the healthy living magazine of the American Diabetes Association. One of the partners listed on their website currently is the hot program The South Beach Diet Online. Allrecipes^Ò features a collection of diabetic-friendly recipes, as well as those that are gluten-free or egg-free, for example, to serve its community of home cooks with special diet needs.

Becoming an Allrecipes^Ò member is free. Just register at the website. If you want more, the Nutri-PlannerÔ is an online service designed to help you easily manage your diet, for a moderate fee. It costs $36, in one annual payment or $3 per month. The service provides easy-to-use, timesaving tools that help one make the best choices about what to eat and how your choices impact your diet. Nutri-Planner taps into the 22,000 practical recipes available at Allrecipes.com. Nutri-Planner enables you to do the following…

• Establish personalized nutrition goals

• Choose what to eat

• Create customized meals with over 25,000 foods

• Track you success over time

• Access valuable information

• Establish Personalized Nutritional Goals

• Learn about your nutrition and set your goals to match your personal needs

• Set your and your family’s profiles through an interactive guide.

In order to determine your optimum daily caloric intake and personalized nutritional goals, Nutri-Planner walks you through an interactive guide asking for your height, weight, age, gender and level of activity. You can keep up to 4 personal profiles for you and your family and change them as your goals change.

Nutri-Planner uses your personal profile information to calculate your Body Mass Index (BMI) and what your daily caloric intake should be in order to maintain your weight. Nutri-Planner lets you set different target calorie goals like " Weight Maintenance" and :Weight Maintenance minus 300 calories per day".

Nutri-Planner asks you to select your dietary focus by choosing from a variety of recommended categories, including: General Wellness Focus, Heart Healthy Focus, Diabetes Management, Cancer Risk Reduction Focus, or Choose to customize your nutritional goals individually.

Nutri-Planner enables you to save time by using the built-in nutrition information from more than 3,000 grocery items when you enter your favorite packaged goods. One can track their daily and weekly nutrient intake and compare their progress

Nutri-Planner aggregates your meal plans, allowing you to track progress on a daily and weekly basis. A color-coded graphic interface lets you quickly see areas where your diet may be out of balance--including calories, proteins, carbs, fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, fiber and sodium. If you change your plan, you can instantly see how it affects your goals.

You also receive a bi-monthly newsletter with practical information about healthy eating.

The underlying food and recipe nutritional information provided in Nutri-Planner is based upon the ESHA nutrient database. This database is recognized for its professional quality and ability to generate exceptionally accurate results, and is used in more than 80% of our nation’s college nutrition programs. Additionally, Allrecipes^Ò’ advisory board, comprised of leading nutrition experts, ensures that the nutritional information meets guidelines established by health organizations including the American Diabetes Association, the American Dietetic Association, the American Heart Association, and the U.S. Institutes of Health. Nutri-Planner combines nutrition information from these organizations with over 22,000 recipes from Allrecipes.com.

In the opinion of BestDietForMe.com analysts, this is a very good meal planning website. If you are looking for a do-it-yourself weight loss method, this may be a good choice for lots of nutrition information, recipes that will help you, and access to a well designed meal planning software program with lots of variety and flexibility. At $36 for a year, we feel it’s an excellent addition to your weight loss repertoire of tools, and you may also want to consider using it to complement another weight loss program (Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, LA Weight Loss, etc.). At this cost, it’s definitely worth it. Don’t expect a lot of hand holding and psychological support with this website. That’s not what it was designed for.

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