Why a dinner co-op?
Join the movement
Look forward to a relaxed, healthy ritual at the end of your busy day. Instead of slamming together 30-minute dinners four nights a week, take your time crafting one superb weeknight meal and receive the others automatically.
Praise for dinner co-ops
The thought of coming home every night and trying to figure out what to cook was burning me out. With our intense jobs, my husband and I were falling into the “take-out trap:” Tuesday: pizza, Wednesday: Chinese takeout, etc. We were spending a lot of money on food we really didn’t enjoy.
This is the best idea ever! It eliminates trips to the store, saves money, saves time, you get to try different meals, you eat healthier, and you have more time with your family. I don't know what I would do without our dinner co-op!
Our dinners are so much better than before! Having a meal prepared with thought and care each night has dramatically cut down on our restaurant expenses.
...it’s decadent and “free” at the same time. One of my favorite dinners was delivered with fresh, blooming, home-grown chives tied in a neat bundle with raffia—to be snipped over dinner later. Beautiful! We felt completely spoiled.
The dinner co-op allows me to eat delicious and nutritious meals way beyond meat and potatoes. As a vegetarian, the only way I could eat any better would be to dine at five-star restaurants several days a week, and my budget just doesn't allow for that.
Great meals delivered to your door. A good excuse to visit with neighbors several times a week. A shared family meal with minimal clean-up. An opportunity to select local produce. A way to eliminate shopping trips and turn the appliances off. If you think about your planet, your community, your family, and what you eat, then you are ready to form a dinner co-op.
When our second baby was born, with no extended family around, getting a decent dinner on the table seemed like an impossible proposition. But I looked around and found two neighboring new mothers were in the same boat. We were all breastfeeding and starving for nutritious meals. They’re both great cooks, and the dinner co-op has changed our lives.
I refuse to go back to cooking 7 nights a week—work, life and commitments are too demanding. Our leftovers from delivered meals make for jealous co-workers all week. Good-bye, expensive barf-a-teria at work!
Time wouldn’t allow the average household to cook to the degree that each participant does on their cooking night. After your night’s over, it’s all downhill.
I don’t know many friends that eat FRESH gourmet food made from scratch 3-4 times a week. In this day and age of fast food or food fast marketing, the simple pleasure of local homemade meals is a blessing. As two busy working professionals, we thank our lucky stars that we have an amazing dinner co-op to count on a couple nights a week to ease the burden of making a homemade meal.
I have come to look forward to cooking for my co-op. Because I’m not doing it every night, I look for recipes that are a bit more special than the “usuals.” I enjoy the planning and cooking for that day because I’m more relaxed the rest of the week.
The same dish rarely shows up twice, which does keep things exciting.