For tight budgets

With a few tweaks, Dinner Elf can be affordable for tight budgets. 

Update your favorites

Limit your favorites to the least expensive items on the menu.

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In your favorites, update your filter to "Budget."

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Click "I only want budget".

Now when picking menus for your appointments, you'll only see budget options.

Put dinner on autopilot

When your dinner is on autopilot, you save $5-$10 every appointment. You can still cancel by 5 pm three days prior with no fee.

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Go to your autopilot page.

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Select a spot on Wed-Sat to save $10 every appointment (other days you save $5).

To minimize your monthly costs, you can schedule every other week.

Select family size

For the best bang-for-your-buck, select family-size dinners. They're twice the size of 2-person size dinners. Your ingredient cost will increase some, but your $99 service fee remains the same. Even if you're not feeding a family, freeze extra food for leftovers. 

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Go to your profile page.

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Set your default order size to "Family".

Other money saving tips

• Share your referral code to earn rewards 💰that you can redeem on appointments.  
• Even if you don't have kids, add our peanut butter sandwiches to your order to supplement meals.
• To make your dinners go farther, pick complicated mains and sides that can stretch into other meals. Then supplement with the easy stuff. Read this guest blog post. 

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