Meal Facilitation Service Makes Home-Cooked Meals From Scratch a Realistic Alternative to Fast Food

FORT COLLINS, CO April 28, 2004 —- What's Cooking's meal facilitation service enables busy people to prepare home-cooked meals from scratch without spending hours in the kitchen.

Unlike personal chefs who charge high prices to prepare meals in customers' homes, What's Cooking customers assemble their own meals in the What's Cooking kitchen using ingredients the service prepares and provides. Advance preparation takes most of the customer work out of the meals. What's Cooking does the meal testing, planning, shopping, and prep work like chopping and slicing. They also prepare ingredients when they require advance attention, like simmering sauces from scratch, mixing and chilling flavored butters, par-boiling noodles, and browning meats.

Customers assemble meals according to posted instructions, and wrap and label their food. In addition to recipe ingredients, What's Cooking provides all items needed for assembly, including plastic gloves, bowls, utensils, plastic bags, etc. Customers provide their own baking pans, and a cooler to transport food. Meals come with cooking instructions and complementary, homemade cookie dough comes with each order. What's Cooking offers meal assembly and meal delivery services at an additional fee.

Customers take meals home to freeze them for up to six months. Designed to cook in thirty minutes or less, What's Cooking meals require only simple preparation after thawing such as baking, simmering, sautéing or grilling. Meals that require more time may be slow cooked in a crock pot, which can be left unattended.    

What's Cooking President and trained pastry chef, Lynda Byrnes-Pelichowski, conceived What's Cooking in part because she wanted to help busy families reconnect with one another. She stated, "Working and busy adults today view a sit-down, homemade meal as a time-consuming luxury. What's Cooking makes nutritious meals with the family possible again, without breaking the bank."    

A healthier alternative to fast or prepared foods, What's Cooking offers high quality ingredients like restaurant-quality poultry and meats, fresh herbs, and real juices and flavorings, and at a lower customer cost due to wholesale buying.

Lisa Bergerson, a working mom, sees a dramatic cost advantage to What's Cooking's services: "I tracked our expenses and found that we save more than $200 per month by going to What's Cooking. We eat out much less, and my husband and I enjoy taking the leftovers to work for lunch--something we never did with fast food."    

What's Cooking varies menu options to meet customer tastes, which range from simple fare to gourmet meals fit for dinner guests. Full sessions include twelve entrees, and serve four to six people, depending on appetites. Half sessions are also available.

Sessions are held at What's Cooking's temporary location: Angelina's Bakery, Poudre Medical Center Harmony Campus, 2127 E. Harmony Rd., Fort Collins, Colorado 80525.

Customers register for sessions at www.mealsmadeeasy.net, and make online payments by credit card, debit card, or check. Customers may also mail registration with payment by personal check.

What's Cooking welcomes observers at certain sessions. Contact Lynda Byrnes-Pelichowski to schedule.    




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