*Finally* I am fairly comfortable walking around a grocery store or being around food. I've been ok with food for at least a couple of months. Not that I'm ok eating a whole lot of it but I'm alright being around it.
Since Trouble is *hopefully* just weeks away from arriving and becoming a tax deduction and a way for me to travel in the HOV lane (woo-hoo!), we thought it would be a good time to use a gift certificate we got for a place called Dream Dinners. It's fancy frozen food. They make food, you prep it, freeze it and eat it. It's pretty simple and we hope it'll be a good solution to nights when we just want to stare at Trouble and don't feel like making (or eating) a frozen pizza or clean out our pantry's tuna fish section (yes, we have a designated tuna area... and one for peanut butter, too).
Here's how it works: Menus change every month. You go on-line and select meals you want, pay for them, and then physically go and assemble your dinners at a special Dream Dinner kitchen on a given date and time. We selected the August menu and chose midday on Saturday so that we could both participate. I have to say that even without eating any of our meals, it was probably one of the most fulfilling and entertaining couples activities we've done for quite some time. There are a few reasons for this but the big one is that it was a very organized and clean (and even color-coded) kitchen, and Clint was actually giddy about the entire experience. It was great how excited he got about all of the ziplock bags, pre-measured ingredients and easy-to-follow "recipes" we were given. We got to wear aprons too, which I thought was fun.
How does it work? You go around to different stations with various ingredients and mix your meals together. The photo on this post is of one of the meals we assembled, which is a fancy pork chop. We might go back -- we'll have to see how quickly we eat our pre-assembled meals and if we enjoy them. I know Clint wants to go back just for the pure thrill of putting all of the ingredients into neat and tidy baggies!
I can just see you both in your aprons filling up your little dinner baggies!
ReplyDeleteThe food looks luscious--if you do have another Virgo, you can have family time being neat and packing meals.
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Love from the sometimes untidy cucina of Nonna
I couldn't agree more about the meal assembly kitchen concept. Being the mom of one son who was almost 3 and with twins on the way, I needed help. Two plus years later, I loved my local place, Entree Kitchen, so much that when it was offered for sale, I bought it! Now my oldest is 5 and my twins are 2.5 and a busy business owner, I am as thankful as ever to have delicious, quick cooking meals to enjoy with my family after a long day of work.
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