I like to cook, when I decide to make the time to do so. My particular career keeps me in the recording studio during lunchtime and suppertime. My family on the other hand keeps regular hours from 8-5. My husband does not like to cook, or rather he is tired when he gets home and lacks the inspiration and motivation to prepare a dinner. As for my 17-year-old, computer-obsessed son....let's just say he is most likely not going to become a chef. Which leaves me to pretty much do 95% of the cooking in the home. Which usually only happens for weekend dinners. The rest of the week was becoming McDonald's for my husband and son, and a bag of chips and a few handfuls of almonds for my supper. Yuck! It is very expensive and not great for slimming down.
There have been times that I get inspired and purchase groceries with the all-good intention to cook them into tasty dinners....and then the meat gets frozen, the vegetables end up in the garbage and the rice stays on the shelf. It just isn't something that I want to spend my free time on. I would rather compose a song than cook. Enter...Caterer!
I feel fortunate that just down the road from where I live, there is a little gourmet restaurant that caters to meals for families. They offer a Monday to Friday dinner service with both regular and gourmet menus. For one person you can order your week's meals for $22. For a week of meals for a family, it costs $87 tax included. That is cheaper than a bag of groceries from my local grocery store, and I don't need to prepare anything. The food is all fresh and the meals are balanced with vegetable proteins and starch in very good portions. It certainly beats the crap out of a bag of chips or McDonalds by a long shot! I am almost positive that there are services like this all over, If there is one in my small town in Quebec, I am sure that anybody could find one where they live.
Since I have been purchasing these meals, I have actually lost 4 pounds, (in 2 weeks) just by merely having a real dinner to eat at night. Our weekly food bill is lower, and we are all happy with supper. Perhaps one would ask, "Why then don't you just cook all of your week's meals on Sunday yourself?" I would reply, "I choose to spend my Sunday doing things I love with my husband, and standing over a stove all day is not one of them." It is about my priorities on personal time and enjoyment.
If you find yourself in the same dinnertime dilemma as I was in, seek out a caterer that has a weekly meal service and see if it fits into your budget and dietary tastes. It has been working wonderfully for us so far and anything that saves time and money is right up my alley.
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