This weekend was a bit of an adventure, or misadventure as it were. I had read online about the Mega Menu Mailer. The basic ideas is that you shop for, prep and freeze all of your main dishes for the month. If you follow the steps, you end up with 20 main meals. I thought this sounded interesting and I was curious to see how well it worked. Some days I come home from work and have no interest in cooking. My thought was that I would test the system and then potentially modify it in future months to include my own recipes and eliminate any recipes that we didn't like.
So, last week I paid my $10 and downloaded the instructions. They indicated that shopping would take 1-2 hours and the assembly of the dinner kits would take 2-3 hours. Saturday, I did my grocery shopping, which took 2 hours including driving time. It was a little towards the high side of the estimate, but I had to spend time searching for ingredients I'm not used to, so I felt confident that I could shave down that time in future trips. Because I had plans Saturday night, I put off the assembly portion of the project until Sunday.
After lunch yesterday, I decided that I would get down to business and start prepping my dinner kits. I started at 1:00. By 6:00, I had finished 12 dinner kits and cut my finger on the blade of the food processor. At that point, JR had to step intervene. He put all of the perishable items in the fridge, cleaned and bandaged my wound and took me out for pizza (despite all of the prepping, I did not manage to get anything cooked for dinner). When we got back, he helped me clean up the kitchen. We ran the dishwasher twice and still have leftover dishes!
Tonight, I have to finish prepping the dinner kits, before the meat and produce begin to spoil. I'm not willing to call the entire experiment a disaster, until I can judge exactly how helpful it is to have all of the meals pre-prepped. I will say that I won't ever try to do the assembly on my own again.
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