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"Spent most of this week not on any one particular diet, but I tried to watch what I ate. Especially the portions. Portions are ALWAYS my downfall. I wish I could eat what I wanted, but just keep the protion sizes in check. Fresh meal delivery services (like NuKitchen) or packaged meal services (like Jenny Craig or Nutrisystem) follow that philosophy. They give you a smattering of everything, and package them in controlled sizes. But I&amp;#039;d like to find something in between those two programs -\u2013 something that&amp;#039;s made with fresh ingredients, but priced closer to Jenny Craig. I set out with a game plan of spending no more than $20-$25 on average a day for all my meals. That&amp;#039;d be half the price of NuKitchen, but a step up from Jenny. I settled on the eDiets Meal Delivery because it seemed to have everything I wanted: a choice of freshly prepared food that was within my budget. But I didn&amp;#039;t get off to a great start. I tried to sign up online but the registration page was giving me all kinds of errors. It said to call if I was having trouble, so I did. I was signed up for the 7-day program in a jiff, which was exciting, except for the discovery that I had to wait an entire week for my first shipment. At the end of the call, the nice guy said to go online and make meal selections for the week. I got sort of excited to see what my menu choices would be, and I settled on the couch with my laptop and got ready to choose. I logged in, clicked on &amp;quot;view Sunday meals&amp;quot; but it gave me an error: It s was past the deadline to choose the meals for my first shipment. In other words, I&amp;#039;d be stuck with whatever they sent me. Huh? It made no sense. So I clicked on all the other days in the week to see if it said something different, but I got the same message everywhere. I decided to call again and got a woman this time. Turns out it&amp;#039;s true: It was somehow past the deadline for changing meal choices -- even though I had just signed up less than 1 minute earlier. Apparently the only way to correct this would be to push out the day I begin the entire program, from a week from now to two weeks from now. Then I could customize my first week&amp;#039;s shipment. Hmmm. It was already a long time to wait a week. But two? I said okay, go ahead. Let&amp;#039;s do that. But the only way to do that, according to the representative, would be to cancel my newly created account, and then create a brand new account with a start date of two weeks from now. I said okay, go ahead. &amp;quot;Oh sorry,&amp;quot; she says, &amp;quot;I can&amp;#039;t do that right now. I have to wait to 24 hours before I can cancel the account because your account hasn&amp;#039;t been set up yet.&amp;quot; (I kid you not. You can&amp;#039;t make this stuff up.) Needless to say, she recommended that I call back tomorrow to cancel my account, and to sign up again. So now I have to remember to do that. Although I&amp;#039;m not so sure I&amp;#039;ll sign up again. This hasn&amp;#039;t been a great start. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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