Hi there,

If you have visited Menu Planning Central in the last week or so, you have probably noticed that things aren’t quite right.  Last week our web-host was doing some minor maintenance on our site. When he finished he went to restore our site from the back-up. The only problem? For some reason the back-up feature had not been working properly since September. Apparently this had never happened before to our hosting company, but it happened to us. Therefore, when our site was restored, it was restored back to September.

What does this mean exactly?
- Most member accounts were deleted
- My Menu Maker Recipes were all deleted
- The Blog disappeared
- The Forum only has posts from Sept. and before

As you can imagine the staff and I were devastated. For one we lost hundreds of hours of work, second we obviously lost quite a bit of income, but most importantly we let you - our customers down. After the initial panic, we spent hours crying and trying to decide what to do.

Honestly, we considered just closing Menu Planning Central’s doors and writing the business off. However, after we came to our senses, we realized that we still feel very strongly that menu planning is an important issue, therefore we have decided to work our tails off and re-open Menu Planning Central’s doors.

Here’s what you need to know:

- All Accounts have been cancelled
- If you don’t want to continue as a MPC member, you don’t need to do anything
- If you would like to remain a Menu Planning Central, you will need to sign-up again with a new account
- If you are an affiliate, you should have been contacted by Nicole our affiliate manager with information.

Here’s where we’re at:

- We are working hard at re-entering recipes into My Menu Maker
- We have moved our hosting to a dedicated server to hopefully prevent anything like this from ever happening again
- We need YOU to continue to join us and help us rebuild. We will be re-opening our doors today. We will be offering past members the first month for $.01 and then every month from then on out at $9.97 per month. We will be offering new members a half-price discount - $9.97 per month instead of $19.97 per month - good though the end of January.

If you have any questions, please contact our support desk at
support@menuplanningcentral.com

Thanks for helping us rebuild Menu Planning Central!
Christine Steendahl
“The Menu Mom”

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