August 2007 Release
What's For Dinner?
Popular Menu-Planning Service Serves Up New Custom Features
(Denver, CO – August 15, 2007) - With delicious dinner menus emailed to subscribers every week, www.RelishRelish.com offers the seemingly impossible: affordable, simple mealtime solutions to restore balance in overscheduled lives. And now it’s even easier. This week, Relish! announced new custom menus and search features to help vegetarians, busy families and even picky kids.
“Relish! has made the weeknight dinner dilemma bearable for our subscribers for several years and now we are happy to offer them a choice of which menus they want to make every week,” says Karen Hutcherson, who along with friend and fellow busy mother, Ann Bender, founded Relish! in 2004. “With this new customization feature, subscribers can click on the menus they’d like to make each week and then easily print out the categorized grocery list and recipes that matches those menus, finally putting an end to agonizing trips to the grocery store and 5:00 stare-downs with the fridge.”
Relish! meals take just 30 minutes or less to prepare and subscribers can choose from vegetarian, kid-friendly, or simple-gourmet categories. The popular web-based subscription menu service works with www.Allrecipes.com to provide subscribers with a multitude of recipes at their fingertips and stands out because of its hip, simple gourmet approach at a reasonable cost of just $7/month.
“Relish! has things that other online menu services don’t – like freezer menus to help you plan ahead, dinner party menus, what to bring to a potluck, slow cooker meals, and camping suggestions,” says Bender. “We offer practical insight and real tools to help enhance not just your meals but also your lifestyles, and we manage to squeeze in some fun along the way.”
The national media hails Relish! as a must-have service that saves time and money. “This site serves up five “simple gourmet” entrees and sides weekly, promising you’ll spend about $80 on groceries,” notes USA Today Weekend. Redbook concurs: “This service helps you break out of the if-it’s-Tuesday-it-must-be tacos rut with more adventurous menus.”
About Relish
Relish! is a subscription-based menu service founded in 2004 by two women -- Karen Hutcherson and
Ann Bender -- who seek to inspire and assist busy cooks everywhere. Relish! subscribers enjoy delicious, affordable menus and meals, along with “real life” information designed to foster good, healthy eating habits and relaxing moments around the dinner table. For more information, go to www.relishrelish.com.
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January 2007 Release
Allrecipes.com and RelishRelish.com Announce Menu Planning Affliiation
(Denver, January 29, 2007) – The world’s largest community food website, Allrecipes.com, and online menu planning site Relish! (www.RelishRelish.com) announced a unique agreement today.
“As more and more people take advantage of high-tech dinner solutions, Relish! has made a very positive impact in the menu-planning arena. We feel they share our philosophy of using quick, healthy recipes to help busy families sit down and enjoy home-cooked dinner together each night,” says Lynn Woll, Product Manager of Allrecipes.com.
Relish! will feature a selection of Allrecipes’ best-loved recipes into their menu plans as of February 1.
“Relish! has had great success in helping overscheduled, tech-savvy families plan their meals each week and we are thrilled to partner with Allrecipes.com,” says Karen Hutcherson, who along with another busy mother, Ann Bender, founded Relish! in 2004 based on their own experiences with the harried, whats-for-dinner dilemma.
Relish! subscribers receive weekly menus and grocery lists that are categorized into different sections of the store to make shopping easy. Each meal takes just 30 minutes to prepare and contains fresh ingredients and kitchen-tested recipes. Subscribers also have access to unique Relish! features such as slow cooker recipes, freezer menus, holiday entertaining guides, and the popular “dinner & a movie” feature.
Part of the Reader’s Digest Association, Allrecipes.com has a worldwide audience of more than 25 million annual visitors and two million members. Home to over 40,000 recipes that have been created, tested and reviewed by millions of home cooks, the website is considered to be the leading resource for beginning and experienced cooks alike.
Relish! subscriptions are $7/month and are available in three-month subscriptions ($21), six-months ($35.70), and 12-months ($58.80) at www.RelishRelish.com.
Relish! a solution. To those pesky resolutions
Website helps busy families get organized and prepare healthy dinners.
(Denver, CO – December 21, 2006) - Ask a busy American family to disclose what’s on their resolution list and the lonely family dinner table will come up in more ways than you can imagine. Get organized, plan healthy dinners, eat together, lose weight, raise healthy kids, save money… bla, bla. We’re tired of our well-intentioned but annoying promises that fall apart faster than a hungry family at 6 o’clock.
But not anymore. Relish! an online menu service gives you the tools and the plan to make simple gourmet dinners, every night. A subscription to Relish! is an innovative approach for busy families looking to get out of the windshield meal trap and back to the family dinner table.
For just $7 per month, Relish! (www.relishrelish.com) subscribers download weekly recipes and shopping lists that have been dubbed life changing. The simple gourmet meals take under 30 minutes to prepare and are tested to assure there will be no more expensive kitchen blunders or leftover herbs and spices. The website also offers special freezer and slow-cooker recipes.
Foundedin 2004 by two busy women -- Karen Hutcherson and Ann Bender -- Relish! offers delicious, affordable menus and meals, along with “real life” information designed to foster good, healthy eating habits and relaxing moments around the dinner table. For more information, go to www.relishrelish.com.
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August 2006 Release
BRING BACK THE DINNER TABLE!
Groundbreaking studies reveal family meals help kids thrive
Denver, CO (Aug 15, 2006) - Johnny is headed to the ball field, grabbing a burger on the way. Jane is at the computer, clicking away and eating a bag of chips. Dad is working late again. And Mom is harried as she idles at the drive-thru for another windshield meal.
What’s happened to the family dinner? Caught between Father Knows Best intentions (June at the stove, pressed and perky) and overscheduled realities (ballet at 4pm, baseball at 6pm, homework in-between) the dinner hour now seems just a mid-century mishap.
But according to recent groundbreaking studies, we need to press pause and bring back the dinner hour. The family meal -- the kind that anchors kids and parents in a sense of steady reliability -- is a simple action that delivers great results. Studies show that the more often families eat together, the less likely kids are to drink, do drugs, battle depression or develop eating disorders.
A simple but important ritual, the family meal provides critical grounding to kids in a hurry-up world where food is increasingly fast but not healthy, over-sized but undervalued. Family dinners provide a safe and comfortable place for relaxed lessons on everything from social conduct to world issues. Just as important, the dinner hour can be a fun event, a time to unwind, reflect and share. Eating regular, interesting dinners encourages new tastes and healthy eating habits while building strong family character.
The most illuminating study hails from the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University. Researchers found that only 25 percent of 17-year-olds regularly took part in family meals. And yet, family meals are a critical component in adolescent development.
While the benefits are numerous, the practical reality of gathering the family in a fixed place to enjoy a nourishing meal can feel like an arduous task. Admittedly, the June Cleaver dinner hour was born in an era when women had more time to cook, children lived less orchestrated lives and husbands were home each night at 6. Priorities change when the chicken dinner is still a frozen notion as you unravel in traffic and the kids are on the cell phone whining to grab a pizza with friends.
“We’re not advocating a return to some Neverland of meat loaf and ruffled aprons,” notes Miriam Weinstein, author of The Surprising Power of Family Meals. “Today, supper must be flexible, reflecting who we are at this time in our culture, in our lives. The immediate goal of the family dinner is to get more genuine pleasure out of being together. When that happens, the other benefits will follow.”
But preparing weekly meals can be daunting, acknowledges Ann Bender, a harried mother of three who brainstormed meal solutions with her equally rushed business partner, Karen Hutcherson. Tired of fast-food meals, microwaved disasters and picky children, they hired a gourmet consultant with a taste for reality and founded Relish! an online menu service designed to provide the plan for busy families.
For as little as $6 per month, subscribers to www.relishrelish.com receive weekly dinner menus with easy-to-follow grocery lists. Best of all for busy families, the “simple-gourmet” dinners take just 30 minutes to prepare.
“If you have a plan, the rest is easy,” says Bender, cofounder of Relish! “Many people enjoy cooking but it’s the weekly plan that is so intimidating. This is where Relish! comes in. When you buy for the week, everything is on hand so there are no last-minute grocery runs plus and the recipes are clear, easy and inspired.”
It’s time to make dinner a family time once again, writes Weinstein.
“Nowadays, in magazines and in TV commercials, cooking wonderful food for our loved ones is presented as misery, or at best, some irksome chore,” she says. “Whereas sitting in traffic so we can stand in line to grab a wrapped-up, standardized, nutrionally questionable meal is great fun?”
For more information about Relish! online menu service, go to www.relishrelish.com. To purchase Miriam Weinstein’s book, The Surprising Power of Family Meals, visit Amazon.com.
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February 2006 Release
WEB MENU SERVICE PUTS AN END TO DINNER CHAOS
Relish! Promises Delicious Dinners. Every Night.
Denver, CO (Feb 24, 2006) - Delicious dinners every night literally are at the fingertips of web-savvy subscribers all over the country. Relish! offers solutions to families struggling with last-minute dinner fiascos and the results of poorly planned meals. Relish! offers weekly "simple gourmet" meals with an easy-to-follow shopping list that has been dubbed by subscribers as a "grocery store lifesaver."
"This innovative service helps families prepare wonderful dinners without having to sift through magazines or cookbooks," says co-founder, Karen Hutcherson. "For as little as $6 per month, a subscriber receives weekly menus using only fresh ingredients and simple recipes. No more 5:00 stare downs with the freezer, planned, fresh foods."
The menus are tested and pass stringent guidelines. All of the ingredients are available at local grocery stores, the preparation is simple and the results are incredible. "The dinner hour should be relaxed and a time to unwind and talk to your family, not a quick run to the store for another petrified chicken," says Hutcherson. "With Relish, the meals are planned and grocery shopping is a snap."
The website, www.relishrelish.com offers members interesting lifestyle information including wine sections, dinner party menus, themed dinners and weekly features. "Relish goes beyond the dinner hour. We want to offer our subscribers practical insight and tools to help them enhance their meals and lifestyles," said Hutcherson.
Relish! is a subscription-based menu service. With a mission to inspire and enable busy cooks everywhere, the Relish program promises its subscribers wonderful meals, cost savings and "real life" information designed to foster lifelong eating habits and relaxing moments around the dinner table. For more information, go to www.relishrelish.com.
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November 2005 Release
THE DASHBOARD DINE DILEMMA
Simple Weekly Dinner Menus Delivered To Your Computer
Denver, CO (Nov 14, 2005) - For most families, the holidays are filled with festivities, school programs, parties and shopping. But during the frenzy and the chaos, we sometimes don’t realize how much the harried schedule is affecting the all-important family meal. Stress no more, though, the anecdote is just a click away.
Relish! (www.relishrelish.com) was founded by two busy moms, and answers the proverbial question of “What’s For
Dinner?” Subscribers receive weekly dinner menus complete with simple sides and a shopping list that takes the sting out of going to the grocery store. “For only $6 a month, Relish! offers uncomplicated dinners that follow our simple gourmet guidelines. Quick prep, fresh ingredients and no sloppy casseroles,” says co-founder, Ann Bender.
Each Thursday, subscribers receive an email with 5 dinner menus and the grocery list. The site also touts unfussy wine selections, informative weekly features, dinner party menus and many more member services.
Visit www.relishrelish.com.
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February 2005 Release
SAY GOODBYE TO EMACIATED DELI CHICKENS. FOREVER!
Relish! Offers Busy Families Delicious Meals. Every Night.
Denver, CO (Feb 3, 2005) - New to the dinner scene, Relish! offers dinner menus with an easy-to-follow shopping list, delivered to your computer each week. No more 5:00 stare downs with the freezer. Relish! offers weekly “simple gourmet” menus that are tested, simple and delicious.
“This innovative web-service helps families prepare wonderful dinners without having to sift through magazines or cookbooks,” says co-founder, Ann Bender. “For as little as $6 per month, a subscriber receives weekly menus using only fresh ingredients and simple recipes. Plus, each menu has an easy-to-follow shopping list that’s coded by store location.”
The menus are tested and pass stringent guidelines. All of the ingredients are available at local grocery stores, the preparation is simple and the results are incredible. “The dinner hour should be a time to unwind and visit with your family, not a crazed exercise slinging leftovers across the table,” says Bender.
The website, www.relishrelish.com offers its members chic lifestyle information including unfussy wine sections, simple dinner party menus and weekly features. “Relish goes beyond the dinner hour. We want to offer our subscribers practical insight and tools to help them enhance their meals and lifestyles. It’s all about getting organized and simplifying,” says Bender.
For more information, visit www.relishrelish.com.
About Relish!
Founded by two busy mothers with great palettes but little time, Relish! was created by Ann Bender and Karen Hutcherson. The Evergreen-based duo aims to save other families from their continual dinner trauma. This insightful service is designed to help families relish their time, food and life.
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