Loading ...Every once in awhile I’ll get the urge to make an effort and cook or bake something nice and yummy for my guy, or make a healthy soup, or experiment at some exotic dish. That’s lasts about a second.
Most of the time, I absolutely hate grocery shopping and cooking. And I hate having to carve the time out of my day or week to do those things.
But, we have to eat, right? And we are really into healthy and organic, which makes it all that much more work.
So, I’m always on the lookout to make my life simpler in that area. One of the services I’ve found in my area is an organic produce delivery service from an independent farmers collective. Each week, you can go online and select from their menu your locally grown and organic produce and a few bakery items, and they will deliver it right to your doorstep.
A few of our local grocery stores also have delivery services where you can select items from their online grocery list and they’ll delivery everything to you for a small fee. I’m going to be trying those out soon.
I’ve also enjoyed going to those places where you can make a bunch of healthy gourmet family-sized entrees for the freezer. These services are springing up all over the place, and are a great life-simplifier for people like me who are too busy to cook every night (and not very good at it).
In my area they are called things like Kitchen2Kitchen and Dinners Done Right. The idea is that once or twice a month, you go to their "kitchen" where all the fixings are already prepared and laid out for you. You select the entrees you want to make from their menu (which changes each month), and in one fun evening you can prepare enough freezer-ready to keep your household fed.
The service is sold in entree packages, generally 6, 12 or 15, so you can make as few or as many as you wish. They take care of the recipe planning, prep work and cleanup so it really is a convenient, time-saver. You don’t do anything except show up and make your entrees.
But even this has become a demand on my time anymore that I’m not interested in expending. And, being in my 40s and having to be more conscious of what I eat and the ingredients used, their menus aren’t necessarily lo-cal or diet/health conscious.
What I’m looking for is someone who can take that concept, but instead make the entrees for me and use recipes that I dictate. For example, I love Weight Watchers cookbooks because it’s not diet food; they just use healthier ingredient alternatives.
Now, I just need to find someone or a service that will do that. Where do I even look? Do you know what you would call a service like that? Would it be a personal chef? (But I don’t want someone to cook in my home; I just want to buy the entrees.) A nutritionist? What category would you look under?
If you have any leads, I’d love to hear from you.
Let me...
