DINNER’S SERVED!!

A few months ago one of my friends ….

…introduced me to Dinner’s Served… a place where you can go to prepare home cooked meals. They do all of the cutting, chopping, cleaning, gathering, measuring, etc. You go home with an entire cooler full of WONDERFUL meals to put in the freezer! Just take them out and put them in the oven or the crockpot. Those meals were SO NICE to have on hand for days when I was in town too long to cook at home or days at home when there just isn’t enough time in the day. In 1 1/2 hours I came home with 12 meals that lasted us about 2.5 months. A few of us decided to do meals again just before Thanksgiving so we’d have some cushion in the meal department during the holidays. My mom wanted to try it this time so she came. Emily also came for a 1/2 hour or so before she went to swimming.My mom said she felt like she was in a race (LOL)! The atmosphere is a bit like that since everyone is trying to get as much done in as short amount of time as possible.There are 6 stations each set up to prepare 2 different meals. You register online for the meals you want to prepare and they have everything ready for you when you arrive. Your name will be on a sticky note beside each recipe that you’ve registered to make. You go to that station and get started.If you need help along the way, they are right there to assist. Here one of the employees is showing me how to roll these cute little steak thingies. I was pinning them the wrong way (LOL).Here is what the counter looks like when I’m done assembling….. and here’s what it looks like just a few minutes after. The employees are continually walking around wiping, cleaning, and helping. The directions are very easy to follow (LOL)…..unless you’re busy visiting instead of concentrating. I was a little slow this time since I was running around visiting and taking pictures… I’m sure you’re all surprised by that, right? We didn’t all get into the same session. There were 4 of us at 9:30 and another friend who ended up not being able to do the session. She used their pick up service where they prepare the meals for you and you just come and get the box and go home. Two of our friends didn’t get in the 9:30 session so they came at 11:00 just as we were finishing.. just in time for me to get some pictures of them! And, one of our friends accidentally signed up for the wrong day and had to wait until Tuesday to do her meals.

Next time we are going to sign up as a group so we can have our own time slot and all be guaranteed to get in together…. probably sometime the end of Jan or beginning of Feb… it would sure be nice to come home to some meals ready to eat at the end of a long ski day.

If you want to join us next time, feel free to email me and I’ll add you to our growing list!