"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> Goomba38 wrote:
>> Mordechai Housman wrote:
>>
>>> I'm sorry, but I don't know what the mechanics are in this. What
>>> does
>>> one do? I bring raw food there, I look up a recipe or I bring my
>>> own, I cut up the food, I arrange it, they freeze it, and then I
>>> bring it back home and cook it?
>>>
>>> Or am I missing something here? I completely ignorant of this thing.
>>
>> my understanding is you bring nothing but your wallet. Then they have
>> the food already set out and prepped so that you're basically
>> assembling the casserole or dish with their food. You're not really
>> doing much, and in a couple of hours you leave with a dozen or so
>> foil pans of food
>> ready to go into your home freezer for use later. I think it costs
>> like 200 dollars for a dozen entrees or so? And that isn't even a
>> complete meal!
>
> Exactly. And you only get to choose from their "recipes" and no sides
> or
> anything else are included. You pay to use their utensils, their
> ingredients and *your* time. I think the last time we discussed this
> concept I checked the web site someone provided and the cooking times
> were
> about 3 hours on average in the oven if cooked from frozen. Where's
> the
> time saving advantage in that? Don't know about you, but I can
> usually
> throw together the same sort of thing, fresh, with sides, in under an
> hour.

Ah, but YOU can cook, and are apparently not too lazy to chop your own
vegetables too! So that's why you and I would never use such an odd
service, but, as Melinda pointed out to me, it's great for some types of
yuppies.