Has anyone tried one of those food prep places?
 

I haven't seen any publicity lately, but one could go to a central
food prep operation and prepare family meals for a month - rather
expensive, if I recall. Did anyone try one?
--
Dora

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On Jul 25, 2:53*pm, "Dora" > wrote:
> I haven't seen any publicity lately, but one could go to a central
> food prep operation and prepare family meals for a month - rather
> expensive, if I recall. * Did anyone try one?
> --
> Dora
>

Yes, once when I had a really busy time at work.

Very mixed -some entrees were good, some were very mediocre. I guess
it depends on what you prefer to eat - some would probably be fine
with everything. Maybe I'm just picky. :)

Kris

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On Jul 25, 11:53*am, "Dora" > wrote:
> I haven't seen any publicity lately, but one could go to a central
> food prep operation and prepare family meals for a month - rather
> expensive, if I recall. * Did anyone try one?

Yes with mixed experiences. I like the concept but often don't
remember it due to location.

The Ranger

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Kris wrote:
> On Jul 25, 2:53 pm, "Dora" > wrote:
>> I haven't seen any publicity lately, but one could go to a central
>> food prep operation and prepare family meals for a month - rather
>> expensive, if I recall. Did anyone try one?
>> --
>> Dora
>>
>
> Yes, once when I had a really busy time at work.
>
> Very mixed -some entrees were good, some were very mediocre. I
> guess
> it depends on what you prefer to eat - some would probably be fine
> with everything. Maybe I'm just picky. :)
>
> Kris

Reminded me of the recent thread on preparing meals to take to a
person with cancer. A group could get together, chip in and give the
person meals for a month. When I was ill last year a group of women
from the church used to bring meals as part of the church program. It
was a godsend.

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I bought from doingdinner.com. I'm sure the quality varies from shop
to shop. I tried the frozen lasagna rollups for about $11. It yielded
three large portions and I'd give it a 4.5 out of 5 on taste.

There was an elderly couple there, loading up on various dinners. They
talked like big repeat customers and knew the proprietor on a first
name basis.

I will buy a few other choices and have in the freezer for:

nights when we're running late
returning from a trip and nada in fridge
somebody's too ill to cook or shop
unexpected guests

I also saved the container and its lid for my OWN frozen dinners, if I
ever get around to a cooking marathon again. In this heat, I hate to
even think of lighting the oven.

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On Jul 25, 3:23*pm, "Dora" > wrote:
* When I was ill last year a group of women
> from the church used to bring meals as part of the church program. *It
> was a godsend.

Yeah.... it's good gift idea. My place offered gift cards.

I bet it beat a carload of flowers ANY day, huh.

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Dora wrote:
>
> I haven't seen any publicity lately, but one could go to a central
> food prep operation and prepare family meals for a month - rather
> expensive, if I recall. Did anyone try one?
> --
> Dora


No. We have such a place...it's called a kitchen.

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On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:39:34 -0700 (PDT), Kalmia wrote:

> On Jul 25, 3:23*pm, "Dora" > wrote:
> * When I was ill last year a group of women
>> from the church used to bring meals as part of the church program. *It
>> was a godsend.
>
> Yeah.... it's good gift idea. My place offered gift cards.
>
> I bet it beat a carload of flowers ANY day, huh.

a carload of buds might be good, though.

your pal,
blake

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On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:20:11 -0600, Arri London wrote:

> Dora wrote:
>>
>> I haven't seen any publicity lately, but one could go to a central
>> food prep operation and prepare family meals for a month - rather
>> expensive, if I recall. Did anyone try one?
>> --
>> Dora
>
> No. We have such a place...it's called a kitchen.

i hope theirs doesn't look like mine.

your pal,
blake

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On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:59:31 -0700 (PDT) in rec.food.cooking, Kalmia
> wrote,
>Maybe you misunderstood, The place I wnet to is not one of these
>places where you do the cooking and so on - they only sold ready to go
>meals and frozen meals.

Every supermarket in town here does that -- and you can buy other stuff
too.

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Reading from news:rec.food.cooking,
sf > posted:

> I haven't tried it, but I think they provide everything.... recipe,
> prepared ingredients, packaging and professional assistance. IOW, no
> shopping or pre-prep involved. Pricing reflects that. I can
> understand how a single person would be attracted to the concept
> though. You can have a wide variety of dinners and not have leftover
> ingredients to deal with.

Sanitation is always a concern for me. The way I see it, nobody is going
to care as much about keeping contaminants out of the food as I am. I
worked in food service for most of my life, and from what I've seen many
of these people have the opinion: "Well, I'm not the one eating it, so I
don't give a shit." What if one of these clowns is working at the food
prep place you speak of?

I remember delivering pizza. Since I wasn't the manager, it didn't matter
if I looked at a pizza and said, "This is too old to be delivered. They'll
need a fresh one," I was told by the manager, "They're not getting a fresh
one. Deliver that one."

Okay. So I had the unpleasant experience of handing someone a stale pizza
that had been sitting under a warmer for an hour and fifteen minutes,
having them open it and look at me as if it was my idea to deliver it to
them in that condition. If it had been me, they'd have a hot, fresh one.

So that's my concern. I don't even eat packaged sandwiches out of the
convenience store coolers, simply because they're cold ingredients
assembled by people I haven't seen, assembled in a place that's who knows
where?

Damaeus

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Reading from news:rec.food.cooking,
Kalmia > posted:

> I bought from doingdinner.com. I'm sure the quality varies from shop
> to shop. I tried the frozen lasagna rollups for about $11. It yielded
> three large portions and I'd give it a 4.5 out of 5 on taste.

I'd like to find either some metal divided trays or even some disposable
trays like frozen TV dinners are put into. I'd like to make my own
"frozen dinners" for convenience, and know that there could only be 8 or 9
ingredients on the label, not 50-60.

I'm not comfortable freezing glass, though i will take glass containers
out of the fridge and put them in a cold oven. I'll put the oven on warm
for a bit, then turn it up to the proper temperature. I haven't broken
any glass heating leftovers that way.

Damaeus

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In article >,
"Dora" > wrote:

> I haven't seen any publicity lately, but one could go to a central
> food prep operation and prepare family meals for a month - rather
> expensive, if I recall. Did anyone try one?

Most of the ones here in Seattle have gone out of business. The economy
is partly to blame, but there's also the instant gratification bit. Why
"make" it yourself when you can swing by the QFC or Metro Market on the
way home and just microwave it?

Cindy, in a pessimistic mood

--
C.J. Fuller

Delete the obvious to email me

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blake murphy wrote:
>
> On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:20:11 -0600, Arri London wrote:
>
> > Dora wrote:
> >>
> >> I haven't seen any publicity lately, but one could go to a central
> >> food prep operation and prepare family meals for a month - rather
> >> expensive, if I recall. Did anyone try one?
> >> --
> >> Dora
> >
> > No. We have such a place...it's called a kitchen.
>
> i hope theirs doesn't look like mine.
>
> your pal,
> blake


LOL. As much as I hate any sort of house cleaning, the kitchen at least
is clean and sanitary! Between working in restaurants and labs, would be
hard to have it any other way.

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On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:26:54 -0600, Arri London wrote:

> blake murphy wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:20:11 -0600, Arri London wrote:
>>
>>> Dora wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I haven't seen any publicity lately, but one could go to a central
>>>> food prep operation and prepare family meals for a month - rather
>>>> expensive, if I recall. Did anyone try one?
>>>> --
>>>> Dora
>>>
>>> No. We have such a place...it's called a kitchen.
>>
>> i hope theirs doesn't look like mine.
>>
>> your pal,
>> blake
>
> LOL. As much as I hate any sort of house cleaning, the kitchen at least
> is clean and sanitary! Between working in restaurants and labs, would be
> hard to have it any other way.

my kitchen is clean, but it's very small and cluttered. (the rest of the
joint is probably just as cluttered, but has the added benefit of dust.)

your pal,
blake

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> >>> Dora wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I haven't seen any publicity lately, but one could go to a central
> >>>> food prep operation and prepare family meals for a month - rather
> >>>> expensive, if I recall. Did anyone try one?
> >>>> --
> >>>> Dora

I have been to one near my home. I think it's a great convenience.
Yes, I am perfectly capable of making meals at home for our freezer,
however at the shop I can make 12 meals for our freezer in 45 minutes.
I cannot do it in that small amount of time at home!

The food is set out all pre-chopped or otherwise prepped. You go to
your desired dish and just start scooping. The scoops are sized like
measuring cups so if the recipe says "1/2 C of broccoli florets" then
the scoop will be 1/2 C capacity. You can also adjust things to your
personal taste - I will often increase by a little the spices and herbs
and the pepper. If you don't like bell peppers or something in a dish
you can leave them out and add more of something else as well.

There have been a few dishes that we won't pick again. But then, that
happens when I cook from scratch at home too :-)

Yes, it costs more than cooking from scratch but I chalk that up to
paying for the convenience of having someone else do the shopping and
prep work. Meals average $5 a serving where I go. More than cooking at
home but less than picking up take out. For us, we use those meals
instead of getting take out or eating out on busy days so it's a savings.

marcella