Sort of on the lines of the most searched for Thanksgiving recipes...
Yesterday we got an advertisement in the mail for catered Thanksgiving dinner. It includes a precooked turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, dressing, green bean casserole, cranberries, rolls, pumpkin pie, etc. delivered to your house either Wednesday evening or Thursday morning. They had 4 different size options. You can pay for the heat and eat version with comes in containers that can go straight in the oven or microwave (Wed) or the version that is warm and ready to eat (Thurs). Prices were pretty high and they claimed to have over a dozen catering vans prepped and ready to go. Apparently every year they sell out and the subsequent year they increase the number of meals and delivery drivers available.
I jokingly told the wife I thought this was a great idea and we should just order in food. Of course I got "the look". Anyway at Church last night she was talking with her women's group and the subject of this prepackaged Thanksgiving delivered to your door came up. Many of younger women in the group were talking about how they do this every year because it's too hard to cook up all those foods. One even said that the "old fashioned cook everything holidays" were behind us. As the discussion went on it turned out that many of these women also did not know how to stuff and cook a turkey, let alone make gravy. So delivery was really their only option.
My wife offered to host a couple cooking classes next October at the church, but other than a few ladies most did not seem that interested.
Yesterday we got an advertisement in the mail for catered Thanksgiving dinner. It includes a precooked turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, dressing, green bean casserole, cranberries, rolls, pumpkin pie, etc. delivered to your house either Wednesday evening or Thursday morning. They had 4 different size options. You can pay for the heat and eat version with comes in containers that can go straight in the oven or microwave (Wed) or the version that is warm and ready to eat (Thurs). Prices were pretty high and they claimed to have over a dozen catering vans prepped and ready to go. Apparently every year they sell out and the subsequent year they increase the number of meals and delivery drivers available.
I jokingly told the wife I thought this was a great idea and we should just order in food. Of course I got "the look". Anyway at Church last night she was talking with her women's group and the subject of this prepackaged Thanksgiving delivered to your door came up. Many of younger women in the group were talking about how they do this every year because it's too hard to cook up all those foods. One even said that the "old fashioned cook everything holidays" were behind us. As the discussion went on it turned out that many of these women also did not know how to stuff and cook a turkey, let alone make gravy. So delivery was really their only option.
My wife offered to host a couple cooking classes next October at the church, but other than a few ladies most did not seem that interested.