No, I don't. What is it? Like ready made freezer meals?
I guess. I got an invite to it, and it sounds like the company provides freezer recipes, and you then have to go shopping for the ingredients (maybe they provide spice mixes or something), and then take your groceries over to the hostesses house and prep freezer meals together. I think it's wil.dtre.e or something like that.
So not only do I have to haul my groceries home and store them, I then have to REPACK them to go cook in someone else's kitchen? For meals which my family may not eat? No thanks.
I'm just a lurker but my friend is selling these so I have learned a lot about this company.(yes you got the name right) You buy a freezer meal package which has several spice mixes, grapeseed oil, and/or sauces. That's $80. Then you get an email with a list of groceries and prep instructions....things like Bag 1-2 lbs of cubed chicken breast, Bag 2-1 5 lb pork tenderloin, bag 3a-3 lbs flank steak, bag 3b 1 diced red pepper and 1 diced onion....you get the point. At the actual workshop, you get 10 recipes. You dump everything you need to make each meal in it's own bag(adding spices, etc from your $80 worth of products) Slap a preprinted label on bag and lug 10 bags of food home and toss them in the freezer. They have lots of collections of recipes. A soup collection, crockpot, the list goes on.
So you spend $80 on products and then another $90-100 on groceries. So it works out to roughly $18 a meal(each meals serves 4-6) Thanks but no thanks. And i've looked up the recipes. I can recreate most of them using stuff already in my pantry for a lot less that $18 a meal. And to be honest, a lot of the meals from the freezer meal workshops are either very similar to something I already make regularly or are something that my family would not be interested in eating. I call a lot of the stuff cooking for dummies. Want to make tomato sauce? Just throw some spaghetti herb mix in a pot with crushed tomatoes and you have sauce. I'm not buying a little jar of that for $10 when I can pick up a Costco sized container of Italian seasoning.
The company is similar to tas.ful.ly si.mple but their big draw is the freezer meal workshops instead of tasting parties.
I guess. I got an invite to it, and it sounds like the company provides freezer recipes, and you then have to go shopping for the ingredients (maybe they provide spice mixes or something), and then take your groceries over to the hostesses house and prep freezer meals together. I think it's wil.dtre.e or something like that.
So not only do I have to haul my groceries home and store them, I then have to REPACK them to go cook in someone else's kitchen? For meals which my family may not eat? No thanks.
I'm just a lurker but my friend is selling these so I have learned a lot about this company.(yes you got the name right) You buy a freezer meal package which has several spice mixes, grapeseed oil, and/or sauces. That's $80. Then you get an email with a list of groceries and prep instructions....things like Bag 1-2 lbs of cubed chicken breast, Bag 2-1 5 lb pork tenderloin, bag 3a-3 lbs flank steak, bag 3b 1 diced red pepper and 1 diced onion....you get the point. At the actual workshop, you get 10 recipes. You dump everything you need to make each meal in it's own bag(adding spices, etc from your $80 worth of products) Slap a preprinted label on bag and lug 10 bags of food home and toss them in the freezer. They have lots of collections of recipes. A soup collection, crockpot, the list goes on.
So you spend $80 on products and then another $90-100 on groceries. So it works out to roughly $18 a meal(each meals serves 4-6) Thanks but no thanks. And i've looked up the recipes. I can recreate most of them using stuff already in my pantry for a lot less that $18 a meal. And to be honest, a lot of the meals from the freezer meal workshops are either very similar to something I already make regularly or are something that my family would not be interested in eating. I call a lot of the stuff cooking for dummies. Want to make tomato sauce? Just throw some spaghetti herb mix in a pot with crushed tomatoes and you have sauce. I'm not buying a little jar of that for $10 when I can pick up a Costco sized container of Italian seasoning.
The company is similar to tas.ful.ly si.mple but their big draw is the freezer meal workshops instead of tasting parties.
These things ALWAYS confuse me. Like the Supperworks stuff - how does that company stay in business? Is it that people don't like to chop and are willing to pay for someone else to do the chopping for them (notwithstanding that a lot of chopped veg can be found in the freezer section of their own grocer)? I'm baffled by it.
I have a friend from my new moms group who is sweet and awesome- she has some advanced chemistry degree and she is also a lawyer- and she just started selling you.nique. I can't for the life of me figure out why, other than the fact that I know she actually likes how it looks. Which, no.
Post by schitzengiggles on Jan 28, 2015 6:47:38 GMT -5
I do have to admit going to freezer meal parties, only the company isn't listed here yet (Pamp.ered Ch.ef). I'm sure each is different - for the ones I've done, the cost isn't bad compared to how much food you end up with.The meals have been very good.
But by far the biggest draw for me is just hanging out, chatting and drinking wine while we do the prep work. I realize we could do that on our own, but I'm lazy...and not a good cook...so this way I do nothing to plan other than a quick online order and then grocery shop. And my DH doesn't complain when I go, because I come home with these meals which make his life easier (I am working a lot of evenings). Little does he know, I go mostly to drink and hang out with friends. It's a win-win!
This was the first status I saw on my newsfeed this morning. "I think it's crazy that, out of all the "friends" I have on Facebook, I cannot find anyone who wants to help me reach a personal goal with jewelry in candles while buying a great product "
Umm get a hint maybe??
Oh, I didn't know you were friends with boring mcwindbag!
Someone who sells essential oils invited me to follow her on Instagram. The name of her account was something like Ess.entially D.octor M.om. Hahahahaha. No.
What is the worst is that I actually want some of that stuff, but you can't get it unless you sign up for their stupid MLM scheme. I really like the Adv.ocare Spark powder and my BFF sells Young.living, but you have to sign up and no way am I going to bug everyone I know to buy stuff just so I can get some energy powder and essential oils.
You don't HAVE to sign up to sell just to buy Spark. Granted, some distributors are pushy and want you on their "team" but if you simply are interested in buying product, you can just find a distributor and order it "under" them without any further commitment.
Post by aliciaflorrick on Jan 28, 2015 8:55:14 GMT -5
These are the worst. I have a friend who got into one of the health ones and decided she was suddenly a nutritionist. Yes, I know what foods are not healthy, please don't dissect my food while I eat it.
In my dreams, FB will crack down on using personal pages to hawk products, esp. MLM things (versus handmade/small business etc). It could happen, right?
Someone who sells essential oils invited me to follow her on Instagram. The name of her account was something like Ess.entially D.octor M.om. Hahahahaha. No.
Yes! This is the newest one. I think essential oils are the new miracle cure. Next thing you know people will be peddling bone broth! So annoying. Between jam.berry, yoou.nique, Bea.chBo.dy...I'm getting really sick of FB.
I forgot until I logged in to FB this morning. The wife of a childhood friend who I have NEVER MET IN MY LIFE sent me an add request. Yep, she sells the wraps, hmmm, I wonder if there is a connection?!?! Damn.
The Jam.ber.ry shit makes me want to gouge my eyes out. This one chick on my FB posts about how wonderful it is, how she's now Captain Team Executive Director with 250 people under her, how she's been awarded a trip to Hawaii because she and her team are doing so well, how she's making a ton of money on the side, etc etc etc. Please.