A new cooking experience



Mom, G, Amazing friend
(not sure what mom is looking at)



This past weekend I used a fun coupon. One of our local news stations has deals similar to Groupon. The one I used this past weekend was for a place called Your Secret Kitchen. All the ingredients are ready for you and all you have to do is put everything together. No clean up, no prep, no shopping! Everything is raw so you can take it home and cook it for your meal that night or store in the freezer for a later date. I had purchased a coupon for my mom and myself so we could have a little bonding time and one of my good friends happened to have one as well so the three of us went together. In a little less than two hours each of us had meals for a whole week!

The six meals I made were:

Fruity Stuffed French Toast

Fish El Diablo

Caribbean Jerk Chicken

Cherry Glazed Smoked Pork Loin – for husband

Chicken Manicotti

Slow Roasted BBQ Roast

As much as I enjoy the process of cooking in my kitchen, this was a really fun break and definitely one I will do again in the future. I picked the smaller meal sizes (2-3 servings) since I was unsure how the whole process would go and if I would like the food or not. In the future I may make the family sized portions (4-6 servings) since husband and I like to have leftovers for lunch.

I enjoy cooking at home too much to do this every week but I can see myself doing this a few times a year. I like the idea of having meals in my freezer that I can pull out at any time instead of going out to eat. Premade meals that you can find at the grocery store would work, but these are meals that I made myself and I know what is in each of them. Based on the regular price (not the coupon price) the price of each meal from the package I picked was $10.83. That’s more than I would typically spend on a meal at home but it’s so much cheaper than eating out! When you add in the amount of time I would have spent shopping for those ingredients, prepping the ingredients and the time it would take me to clean up, this really is a spectacular deal. If you have one of these little gems in your town go check them out! Bring a friend or two and be ready to have fun.