Family dinners, 24 at a time

Meal preparation services like Dream Dinners take the hassle out cooking healthy and delicious dinners. They do the shopping and cleaning, consumers do the cooking (up to 24 dinners at a time) in professional cooking studios.

When it comes to dinner, consumers want it all: active, individual lifestyles AND sit-down family dinners, preferably combined with convenience AND authenticity. Which means the food and beverage world is forever coming up with innovative, wholesome yet effortless ways to feed busy singles and families; from healthy ready-to-heat meals to online grocers such as FreshDirect. Now, add to this equation services like Dream Dinners, Dinner Helpers and Let’s Dish. How it works: the Dream Dinners of this world eliminate the hassle of planning and preparing meals, by facilitating cooking sessions in professional kitchens where customers assemble 12 to 24 healthy family meals and then take the entrées home in coolers, boxes or laundry hampers to freeze/store/cook and eat. The service cleverly takes care of time-consuming activities like grocery shopping, chopping and dicing, and cleaning up. Dream Dinners charges USD 200 per 12-meal session for 4-6 people, or 24 meals for 2-3 people, while Dinner Helpers charges USD 179 for 12 meals. An entirely new way of preparing a family’s monthly food-supply, and one that would go down well with busy households in Europe, Asia-Pacific and anywhere else where time is the new currency!

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