Fresh Dish: Brining Families Back to the Dinner Table

Have you ever gotten off work, gone to the grocery store, dealt with the kiddos, worked out...only just to realize that it's 8pm and dinner hasn't been started?  This is our typical night...I swear, we don't eat dinner until 9 or 9:30!  It's horrible. Half the battle is trying to figure out what the heck to cook that night!  Even if you just factor in going to the store, prepping, cooking and eating dinner...that all takes about 2 hours post work.  I sometimes wish we had a personal cook.

Enter Fresh Dish.

It's a gourmet meal kit service that delivers ready-to-cook meals to families that just don't have time to deal with the shopping and prep time it takes to get a home cooked dinner on the table during the week.

I admit, I was skeptical at first.  I envisioned a frozen dinner that you just heated up {and inevitably would not taste much better than something you buy in the frozen isle section at the grocery store} but boy was I wrong!

I was pleasantly surprised to see a well packaged box {surprising for free shipping when you order more than one kit} and inside the meal kit was fresh produce and meat.  Everything was already prepped and ready to go...and the beauty of this service, is you still cook.  But don't worry, it's all pretty simple to put together, and the kits come with great directions.  Ryan and I had dinner ready to go by 7pm on the nights that we made the "Fresh Dish" dinners, which is a world record in our house!

So how did they taste?  Amazing!  I would have never guessed that we didn't go grocery shopping just an hour before.  The meat was super fresh and the produce was flavorful and tasty.

And I bet you're waiting for the price bomb to drop.  But you'll be surprised to know that it's as little as $8/person for a family size kit or $12/person for a 2 person kit.  When you factor in the time you save from shopping and prepping, not to mention the quality of the food, I think it's more than worth it.  And I love the flexibility.  You can check out the menu {it changes weekly!} and decide what to order for the week. 

I think we definitely want to try this service a couple nights a week.  I know we were so relieved that we didn't have to worry about dinner on the nights we had the kits to cook.

If you're interested in trying this service, Fresh Dish is offering Schue Love readers "a buy one family size meal, get one free"!  Enter SCHUEXFRESH at checkout.  This week, they're featuring a flank steak salad with basil pesto & quinoa that is calling my name!  ;)

Hope you enjoy!  Bon Appetit!

xo natasha