STYLETHREAD -- LET'S TALK SHOP!

Kari · Dooney & Bourke

Pass Your Plate

NCshopper · Hermes

There was just a big article about like 8 of those stores opening up in my area. They're called something else, but the idea is the same. Sounds pretty convenient!

ILoveChoo · Hermes

wow- thats a really good deal!

valenciana · Dooney & Bourke

I've heard of things like this...it sounds really interesting. You definitely should report back and tell us how it went and if you liked it.

I've heard of others called Dream Dinners, Super Suppers, and Let's Dish...I don't know how else you could find them in your area, but those are apparently the big companies.

nunzi182 · Kate Spade

In New Jersey there are some places called Simply Cook-It that do the same thing. It's $150 for 8 meals.

ETA: People at work have done and they said the food was delicious and well worth it. They also said you get HUGE portions. One woman here said each meal could feed her and her husband 3 times (and she eats a lot like me

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-- Edited by nunzi182 at 15:36, 2006-01-27

laken1 · Hermes

They opened one around the corner from me called Super Suppers & the pricing is about the same as yours Kari. Let me know how it goes - i'm very curious.

Not sure if it works for my weight watchers plan, but i was wondering if it was cheesey.

itsapinkthing · Coach

We have a Dream Dinners kind of in my area. I plan to try it out in the next couple weeks too. I think it'll be a great way to sock pile some easy-no-work dinners to have in the freezer for once the baby get's here. I think it's only slightly more expensive than if I did the shopping my self, but being it's only 3 of us plus an infant and the meals can serve 6 I think it's well worth it. I'll post a review too.

Hermione · Kate Spade

i just looked at the super suppers in dallas, and the menu kindof sucks :(

laken1 · Hermes

Hermione wrote:

i just looked at the super suppers in dallas, and the menu kindof sucks :(

I thought so too, hermoine, but i thought maybe it was just me....

Hermione · Kate Spade

no, it's definitely not just you! next month's menu doesn't look too great either ... these things are all easy to make, cheap, and none-too-healthy. if i was going to make that stuff, i'd just do it myself, for cheaper! it's not worth it for those menus.

Alegria · Kate Spade

I did Dream Dinners once. I thought it was expensive for the quality of the ingredients. Most of the stuff was dried. The cheese looked like government cheese. It was great to have meals handy but most required too much oven time to cook for my busy family. I felt that meals that I normally made were more edible and required less time. I was also exahusted by the time I prepared the 12 meals. Make sure you have an empty and big freezer. There were a lot of containers to store. Unless your good at remembering and identifying ingredients you won't be able to replicate the recipes another time on your own. Even if you do know what went in them, you still have to remember the measurements. I suck at that. They do give you the nutrition information for every meal alon with cooking directions. I found myself searching for a full menu of dishes that my family would eat and repeated several just because it was limited on things that the kids and husband would eat.