I know this post will be quickly bookmarked as one of Nikki’s favourite posts. At our house the daily struggle is to find something for everyone to eat at dinner. Nikki and I rarely disagree on what to eat, but add three kids into that mix and there’s usually at least someone that finds something wrong with supper every night. It is tiring at best and very frustrating at worst, just ask Nikki. Even when we have a rudimentary meal plan (we try but it usually doesn’t get done) the next task is to have the appropriate groceries in the house at the right time, which hardly ever coincides with our actual tastes at the time.\u00c2\u00a0 Then the challenge is having whatever the meal is made and ready at the right time.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s enough to drive you to drink.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, this problem is obviously not just limited to our house and Nikki has often fantasized about starting a business cooking for families like ours.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, apparently there are lots of people with this same problem, and they have come up with a very cool slant on that idea.<\/p>\n
Several “meal assembly kitchen” stores have opened in the Washington area and the Washington Post has a good article about this cool idea<\/a> that is apparently exploding in the US.\u00c2\u00a0 The idea is so simple, really.\u00c2\u00a0 You go in and for a few bucks a meal you get to assemble a week’s worth of meals in a professional kitchen with fresh ingredients.\u00c2\u00a0 You take them home, freeze them and use them as necessary.\u00c2\u00a0 Freaking brilliant.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s probably not that cheap, but man that’s a huge lifesaver.\u00c2\u00a0 This quote is probably enough to make Nikki weep openly:<\/p>\n “My husband and I can do six meals in less than an hour,” says Janet Desjardins of Clarksburg, a meal assembly veteran of three months. “As a result, I barely go to the grocery store now.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Oh man.\u00c2\u00a0 I spent a few minutes looking and it seems that there is no such animal in Ottawa.\u00c2\u00a0 Why?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Damn you, why!?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I know this post will be quickly bookmarked as one of Nikki’s favourite posts. At our house the daily struggle is to find something for everyone to eat at dinner. Nikki and I rarely disagree on what to eat, but … Continue reading