BAGGING DINNER: Mr. Food No Fuss Meals

Niagara Gazette:

Among the activities that our time-compressed society has kicked to the curb is the concept of the family dinner.

The notion of people gathered around a table for genuine conversation over genuine food tends to be reserved for Thanksgiving or for Nick at Night family sitcoms. Dinner today often arrives packed in cardboard, to be consumed over the sink or on the couch and in a hurry, reduced to an element of multitasking.

Well, dinner is back, and it’s made by hand and wrapped in plastic.

The angst-ridden with overtaxed schedules have lately taken to a departure in meal preparation that owes more to the assembly line than to those lovingly fussed-over 30-minute gourmet wonders the Food Channel offers to incite homemaker guilt. It’s the outsourcing of homemade dinner, and it now happens, according to Time Magazine, about 350,000 times a month in America.

Make an appointment to book a session, visit a place like Mr. Food No-Fuss Meals in the Northtown Plaza and single-handedly follow simple instructions to prepare a large, nutritious and remarkably cost-effective family meal. Put it all in an assortment of zipper bags, carry it to your freezer and a meal in the tradition of June Cleaver or those Norman Rockwell illustrations beckons.

I tried it. It works.

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