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Meal planning can help you to successfully organize the daily routine of preparing meals for your family.

If you often find yourself searching for something to prepare for dinner, meal planning may be just the thing you need to make meal time less stressful.

Below are some of the benefits of meal planning.

1. You’ll save time.

Knowing what you’re going to cook for dinner means you can get the meal on the table faster because you won’t have to decide what to make.

In addition, when you plot out what meals you’re going to fix for the week, you can simply make one trip to the store and buy all the food you’ll need for those meals.

You won’t have to search the refrigerator or freezer when dinner time arrives, and you can eliminate trips to the grocery store looking for something to eat that everyone likes.

2. You’ll save money.

Meal planning can also help you save money.

For one, when you know what you’re going to cook for dinner, you won’t eat out as much during the week because you can’t think of anything appealing to make.

By simply eating at home more instead of eating out, you’ll keep more money in your pocket that you can use for other important things.

3. You’ll be able to eat healthier.

If you tend to eat burgers and fries from fast food places a few times a week, meal planning can help you to eat healthier by replacing those meals with healthier ones.

Instead of greasy, fatty hamburgers or having pizza delivered, you could have a nutritious meal of vegetables, salad and a lean main course of chicken or beef for dinner.

In addition, if you need to restrict sugar or salt from your diet, menu planning can help you to consistently cook meals that fit your nutritional standards and stick to your diet.

4. You’ll be able to reduce meal time stress.

If you have your dinners planned out, you won’t have to figure out what to make while everyone is hungry and in bad moods.

You’ll already know what you’re going to make, and dinner time can go smoothly as everyone looks forward to the delicious meal they’re going to eat.

5. Meal planning is easy.

Planning what you’re going to prepare for dinner over the weekdays isn’t difficult.

It just takes a little time to decide beforehand what you want to eat, and then purchase the food.

You can plan your dinners for the week days, the entire week or longer.

However, start small by planning out, for example, five dinners for the weekdays.

Once you see what’s involved, you’ll have a better idea how many meals and how far ahead you’d like to plan.

Conclusion: Meal planning can help you to save money and time. Meal planning can also help you to eat healthier, reduce meal time stress, and isn’t difficult to do.

After you start meal planning, you may find that dinner time becomes family time again.

There are new trends driving the ready meals market forward in 2008. Consumers are regaining a sense of heritage which is driving demand for traditional national recipes. Manufacturers are developing ready meals that are making it more convenient for consumers to develop ‘homemade’ style food, involving the use of fresh and local ingredients. The demand for freshness overlaps with trends in healthy ready meals, which remains an important and growing sector. Future trends in health include natural, functional, satiety enhancing and low GI ingredients. Innovation and NPD in Ready Meals is a new management report  that analyzes the key trends in the ready meals market and forecasts future growth and opportunities. The report breaks down opportunities in the ready meals sector by region and category to provide a unique insight into the factors shaping the market now and in the future. Anticipate future changes in the ready meals market and make the right decisions in terms of new product development and marketing strategies with this new report…

This new report will enable you to…

Predict future market growth levels with this report’s analysis of key drivers of the ready meals market detailing changes in demographics, meal-time behavior and regulation.

Anticipate the impact of key trends in the ready meals market and quantify new and emerging opportunities using current and forecasted market value and volume data to 2010 across 7 European countries and the US, detailing the size and growth of the canned, chilled, dried and frozen ready meals markets.

Improve targeting and the effectiveness of your NPD strategies with this report’s analysis of Productscan data of over 6,000 ready meal products launched between 2004 and 2007. Analysis was conducted to determine the key innovations in terms of formulation, packaging, shelving type and product labelling.

Benchmark leading executives’ opinions on the future of ready meals using this report’s analysis of our global consumer survey, providing exclusive insight into consumer behavior, key drivers of the ready meals market and future trends.

Your questions answered…

How should ready meals manufacturers position their products to reflect the changing demands of consumers?
What should ready meals new product development strategies focus on?
Which ready meals categories and count ries will grow fastest to 2010?
Who are the companies who lead NPD in ready meals?
What are the key trends in ready meals NPD?
Some key findings from this report…

Of all ready meals products launched between 2004 and 2007, 2% were innovative. Of those innovative ready meal products, 71% were innovative in terms of formulation and 13% were innovative in terms of pac kaging benefit. Innovation in formulation consists of using unusual combinations of flavors and ingredients and also use of ingredients with health benefits.

The ready meals market across Europe and the US has grown steadily in recent years. In 2006, the combined European and US market was worth $36.4bn. However, by 2010 it is expected to grow to the value of $41.7bn.

39.1% of industry executives think that healthy, ‘better-for-you’ variants will be the most important feature for the success of a ready meal product over the next 5 years. 28.3% think that greater convenience in ready meals will provide the biggest growth for manufacturers.

Frozen ready meals take the largest share of the ready meals market, accounting for about 50% of ready meals sales in both Europe and the US in 2006.

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