Can Single People Benefit from Using Social Suppers

I've had quite a few people tell me that they can't really use food from Social Suppers because they are single. There may be underlying reasons for that reaction with which I'm unfamiliar. However, I actually have at least a couple of customers who are single who survive mostly on Social Suppers and have discovered it saves them money as well as provides good food that they can look forward to.

Let me pose a few questions:

• If you cook for yourself and you're single, how much of what you buy for a particular recipe sits in the refrigerator and spoils because you used what you needed for the one recipe and have no use for the rest of it?
• How many times do you just not make something because it calls for a specific ingredient and you know you may never use it again? (That applies to anyone regardless of how many people you're feeding.)
• If you don't really cook, how much money are you spending on eating out?
• How bored are you after eating cereal or frozen TV dinners from the grocery store for days on end?

Our 3 serving entrees are very easy to use for singles. We usually have a few items that are individually wrapped every month. For the items that are not individually wrapped, you can do a couple of things, depending on whether you eat leftovers.

1) You cook the entire entree and make enough of your side dishes for 3. Then you have a lunch to take to work later in the week and you make one frozen dinner by placing the rest of the leftovers on a plate and putting it back in your freezer. It will be ready to put in the oven for 30-45 minutes or the microwave for 5 minutes some busy night later in the month. If you're a guy, then maybe you get only 2 meals out of it.

2) If you don't like leftovers, then split the uncooked entrees before you put them into the freezer at home and then you only have to cook one pork chop or chicken breast at a time.

For a single person, a meal prep kitchen is ideal.

• You're not buying food that will spoil in your refrigerator because you had to buy too much to get what you needed.
• You're not wasting a bunch of calories eating fast food with God knows what preservatives, fat and sodium in it.
• You're not spending as much as you would eating out and again, not really knowing what's in it.
• You have variety because the menu contains lots of different choices and changes every month. Favorites are brought back every so often.
• Portion control is inherent in buying only a 3-serving entree. The serving size is a real serving size, not what restaurants are passing off as a serving.
• You're not living on cereal or boiled chicken breasts because it's easy and you're too tired to think about anything else.
• When you get home in the evening, you can now have dinner in somewhere between 10 minutes on the stovetop or 30 minutes in the oven, depending on the item. That's cook time so you can frequently be doing something else more exciting at the same time, like going through your junk mail!

By coming into a Social Suppers kitchen, you can make about 6 entrees in an hour, figuring about 10 minutes per item. Compare that to how long it would take preparing your food to go into the oven at home. Your time is worth something, especially when you're managing a household by yourself.

If you don't want to make it yourself, we can make it for you and you just pick it up. The nutritional information is all on the website so you can make informed decisions.

Check out the website at http://www.socialsuppers.com/ and come see me in Olathe, KS!