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I went to Dream Dinners last week and wanted to post a review. I knew there had been some interest in this subject in the past.
If you don't know Dream Dinners is a place where you pay a fee (around 200.00 dollars) for 12 entrees -or you can do a minimum of 6. You bring a cooler to take home your food. You go to little stations where all the ingredients and proper utensils are laid out and you assemble your meals -take them home and freeze them.
When I first got there- I was checked in and told where to put my cooler.
I got an apron and washed my hands.
I had a sheet of all the meals I had signed up for online and I could mark them off as I did them.
The stations had the recipe and gallon bags or foil baking pans.
They were pretty easy to assemble and I only had to wait once for someone to finish a station where I needed to be (it was my only one left to do)
You can do them in any order. As you finish each entree you put a cooking instructions label on it and put it in your cooler. The cooler was overflowing at the end. I noticed one woman bought a laundry basket. That would work if you were going straight home.
All the ingredients were in cold tables so I was not worried about spoilage.
So far we have eaten two things. Breaded pork chops with German Potatoes and Asian meatballs with rice. Both were very tasty.
I think that this would not be a good idea for someone that is extremely cost conscious. You could do this much cheaper on your own. But I knew I wouldn't and it was lovely not cleaning up.
If you were a real germ freak -it might be distressing because you were sharing space with other people -using the same measuring spoons etc...
You were supposed to wash your hands between each station.
Also most entrees had garlic or onions or spices. If you were a real meat and potatoes family- it might be hard to find something to your taste.
You could put what you wanted in the recipe -leave out onions for example if you didn't like them- but if you had to do that with every recipe it would seem to be easier to make it at home.
These are pretty much entrees -you would still need a vegetable or salad to go with them. They are not all casseroles and many are not heat and eat -they still need some work. Most of them are nice enough for company and all the chopping and cleaning are done for you.
There were some light refreshments available and everyone was very friendly.
It was the first session of the month so they had not done the recipes yet (the menu changes each month). Next time I would wait until a week or so into the month so they could work out the kinks.
You could talk to the other people there while you were cooking -but it would be hard to talk too much -because you would mess up your recipe.
I would consider bringing a Walkman or IPod if I were going alone.
I am planning on going back next month.
I went to Dream Dinners last week and wanted to post a review. I knew there had been some interest in this subject in the past.
If you don't know Dream Dinners is a place where you pay a fee (around 200.00 dollars) for 12 entrees -or you can do a minimum of 6. You bring a cooler to take home your food. You go to little stations where all the ingredients and proper utensils are laid out and you assemble your meals -take them home and freeze them.
When I first got there- I was checked in and told where to put my cooler.
I got an apron and washed my hands.
I had a sheet of all the meals I had signed up for online and I could mark them off as I did them.
The stations had the recipe and gallon bags or foil baking pans.
They were pretty easy to assemble and I only had to wait once for someone to finish a station where I needed to be (it was my only one left to do)
You can do them in any order. As you finish each entree you put a cooking instructions label on it and put it in your cooler. The cooler was overflowing at the end. I noticed one woman bought a laundry basket. That would work if you were going straight home.
All the ingredients were in cold tables so I was not worried about spoilage.
So far we have eaten two things. Breaded pork chops with German Potatoes and Asian meatballs with rice. Both were very tasty.
I think that this would not be a good idea for someone that is extremely cost conscious. You could do this much cheaper on your own. But I knew I wouldn't and it was lovely not cleaning up.
If you were a real germ freak -it might be distressing because you were sharing space with other people -using the same measuring spoons etc...
You were supposed to wash your hands between each station.
Also most entrees had garlic or onions or spices. If you were a real meat and potatoes family- it might be hard to find something to your taste.
You could put what you wanted in the recipe -leave out onions for example if you didn't like them- but if you had to do that with every recipe it would seem to be easier to make it at home.
These are pretty much entrees -you would still need a vegetable or salad to go with them. They are not all casseroles and many are not heat and eat -they still need some work. Most of them are nice enough for company and all the chopping and cleaning are done for you.
There were some light refreshments available and everyone was very friendly.
It was the first session of the month so they had not done the recipes yet (the menu changes each month). Next time I would wait until a week or so into the month so they could work out the kinks.
You could talk to the other people there while you were cooking -but it would be hard to talk too much -because you would mess up your recipe.
I would consider bringing a Walkman or IPod if I were going alone.
I am planning on going back next month.
