Sunday, April 02, 2006

Dream Dinners

Dream Dinners is an innovative concept in meal preparation that eliminates menu planning, shopping, prep-work and cleanup by moving the meal assembly process out of people’s kitchens and into specially equipped stores.

Dream Dinners’guests preview a monthly menu online at dreamdinners.com and select their dinners from a menu featuring entrĂ©es such as Herb-Crusted Flank Steak and Citrus Ginger Salmon. Then they register to attend a meal assembly session at the nearest Dream Dinners retail location, and pay for their session online.

When it’s time for their session, guests bring boxes or coolers with them to the Dream Dinners store, where our friendly and knowledgeable staff greet them and explain the process. At the store, guests rotate through refrigerated recipe stations, scooping freshly cut and prepped raw ingredients into the provided baking pans or gallon-sized zip-top bags, which they label with the appropriate cooking instructions. The whole process takes two hours and costs about $3.00 per serving.

After assembling the dinners, guests then take the uncooked meals home and freeze them. Each week, three meals are taken from the freezer and placed in the refrigerator to be enjoyed during the week.

Deb and I tried this out! Since the meals feed 4-6 (and they mean it!) we were able to split each meal into two helpings when we created them. So bottom line is $210 dollars: 24 dinners all ready to go in our freezer right now! It took less than 2 hours to make all of the meals. I must say it was a fun process, and the provided coffee and snacks made it even better.

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