Take n Bake Dinner Anyone?

If you’ve never been to a take n bake style store. I highly reccommend finding one. Mine is called The Dinner Station. I go once a month paying about $150 for a months worth of dinners for the 3 of us. And truly I could get away with buying half as much with how much we eat fast food, eat at my mom’s house or someone else’s house. I have a freezer full of prepackaged meals. Lemme just tell ya…this is where it’s at. It’s fresh food put in individual ziplocks that you pretty much open and dump in a pan together and bake. You save money, you save effort. And you don’t have to worry about all the nasty preservatives! They are all healthy meals too. It’s a fantastic idea. Wish I’d have thought about it first. Some of these meals are actually like casseroles or “bakes” in a pan that you litterally just put in the oven with zero work. I’ll never go back to regular cooking. The most work you’ve gotta do is when it’s a skillet meal. But with the ingredients premeasured and mixed together still all you do is pour it in the pan and then stand there and cook it. But the skillet meals take a maximum of 15 minutes on average. I tell ya, I’m in love. At my store you have the option of scheduling a time to go in and put your meals together yourself if you want to. I did that the first time. It’s actually totally fun. It’s never been fun for me to cook at home. I hate the planning involved. I lost creativity in coming up with new and interesting meals. And after always having the same things after a while it got old, real old. With this place you walk in and everything is planned out for you. Takes a huge load off my shoulders. And you can even pick and choose which ones you want and how many of each. It’s cool how they set it up in there too. You go in and see tables set up with designated meals at each one. Everything you need for each meal is set out. Down to measuring spoons and cups and mixing bowls. Above the table the recipe is displayed. They make it very easy for you. If it calls for a tbsp. of flour on the recipe then you’ve got a huge bowl of flour in front of you with a 1 tbsp. measuring spoon already in it. They take the thinking out of it. So litterally you just dump each item in a bag and walk on to the next one. Instead of me spending 2 hours in the kitchen per night I spent a total of 2 hours putting together a months worth of meals. It’s a beautiful thing ya’ll. I actually had fun in a kitchen for the first time in years. Now if you don’t have time to do that you can pay them $25 to do it for you. The cool thing with that is…when you come back to pick up those meals, take a look at next months meals, if you pick out what you want ahead of time they knock off the $25 and prep those meals for you for free. And you can go back and do the same thing month after month. Totally awesome. They even give you freebies on a points system, you’re almost always getting something extra for free. Now they go by different names. But they are all over the place. Another place I know of is called SuperSuppers. Tried them too. There’s got to be something like that near where you live. But all these places come highly reccommended. Beats the heck outta take n bake pizza.