Father and Daughter Have been Continuous Customers of Dream Dinners for 7 Years!

Posted on November 6, 2012 by Dream Dinners

November 2 will be our seventh anniversary as Dream Dinners customers. The unique part is we are a father and daughter team. Until I retired from teaching, my father who was 87 at the time tried to have dinner started before I got home. We were getting pretty tired of our small repertoire of entrees—meat loaf, spaghetti, stroganoff, Mexican chicken, and stuffed peppers. My father has macular degeneration, and it was becoming very difficult for him to read recipes.

I had heard about Dream Dinners in the newspaper and on TV, but only discovered that there was one close to us in Parker, Colorado in 2005. After our first visit, we were hooked. We have only missed two months—April 2006 and July 2007 since then. We made up for it by even going twice a month a couple of times. In July of 2008, we took Pulled BBQ Pork in a cooler packed in dry ice on the plane. My father celebrated his 90^th birthday in Columbia Falls,Montana and we brought enough Pulled Pork to feed 50 people. What a hit that was!

My father often remarks that he has not had a Dream Dinners meal that he didn’t like. He was getting a little too thin before Dream Dinners. At his age, Continue reading →

Dream Dinners vs. Do it Yourself

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Dream Dinners

This is a great story from one of our wonderful customers. Based on a challenge from her husband to save money, she sets out to prove to him the value beyond just the cost savings. Thank you to Ginny for sharing her story!

My husband has recently retired, and of course we have taken quite a hit in the stock market lately and all I seem to hear from him is budget, budget, budget. He “ANNOUNCES” that he thinks I can do Dream Dinners cheaper by doing it myself. I decided to find out. I found an online site that for a subscription fee of $10 a month will send you 10 recipes a month, with a shopping list and preparation instructions to fix all at once and freeze. So we are off and running with our test. Continue reading →

How Dream Dinners helps new moms

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Dream Dinners

From Jill of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Sent to our Bradford Village store in Harrisburg, PA—April 25, 2008

“As a new mom, one of the biggest adjustments is finding that I have more to do, but less time in which to do it. The baby only sleeps for 45 minutes to an hour at a time, so that does not give me enough time to clean the house, do the laundry, go to the grocery store, not to mention prep and make dinner. I love that, with Dream Dinners, all the prep work is done ahead of time. I’m sure that most people dread the thought of preparing a meal. However with Dream Dinners it is really something to look forward to.”

“I think everyone gets stuck in a rut with the same recipes. Continue reading →

Kara Lee loses 161 pounds!

Posted on March 30, 2010 by Dream Dinners

“Everyone that I talk to, I talk to them about the fact that I do Dream Dinners and that it is a great way to monitor and lose weight. At my biggest weight, I was 311 pounds and I now weigh 148. Since I’ve started Dream Dinners I have lost 161 pounds, but the best part is not only have I changed physically, I have changed emotionally. I have so many things that I am able to do that I wasn’t able to do before, like ride bikes and playing with my kids, I feel great. It’s a wonderful feeling and I think it brings your spirits up, then you feel like you can do anything. I think I have more confidence and I feel so much healthier. I feel like when I get out of bed in the morning, I feel wonderful. Before I felt so tired and just dragging and now I feel like I have all of this energy and can do so many things. I am so much healthier and a big part of it has been Dream Dinners in my life…”

“Dream Dinners is very cost effective. You don’t have to go out and buy a lot of ingredients that you’re only going to use once. I don’t think that people realize what it is, they think they have to come and buy all this food but if you take your receipts and add them up for every time you go to the grocery store, you spend by far 2 times, 3 times more money than you would here. As long as they are here, I will come in every month.”

Sincerely,
Kara Lee

*Dream Dinners is not a weight loss program.

A fantastic weight loss story from Janis Jones

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Dream Dinners

In June of 2007 I started Weight Watchers and then a month or so later I was invited to a sneak peak at the Poway Dream Dinners. My first question to Phil was if nutritional value was available and was thrilled to see that it was. I made my meal went home and enjoyed it. I got busy with everyday life and a few months later I finally ordered my meals once I reviewed the nutritional information and how it fit into my Weight Watchers Flex Plan.

I would have ordered again even without the nutritional value availability since I have enjoyed the meals so much, but I continue to return because that information is available and of course the food is quite good! Over the last 17 months I have lost 101.2 pounds through Weight Watchers and with the help of Dream Dinners.

Both Phil and Sheila have been very supportive in my weight loss journey and are always thrilled to hear of my continued successes. I have about 15 more pounds to go but I have gone from a size 24 to 10’s and 12’s and I couldn’t be happier!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Colette, if you have any questions or need clarification with anything please don’t hesitate to contact me. By the way, is or has Dream Dinners thought of partnering with Weight Watchers International! I think it would be a great and I could be the poster child (so to speak - lol) for such a partnership.

Thank you again, I am thrilled to pieces my recipe won.
- Janis Jones

Special Note: Janis Jones was also a winner of our 2009 Recipe Contest for her Crispy French Onion Chicken.

*Dream Dinners is not a weight loss program.

Dream Dinners helps improve my family life

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Dream Dinners

“One of the things I like about Dream Dinners is how it has improved my family life. I come here with my husband, so that’s date night. We come over, prepare our meals then go and have dinner. And because he was involved in the preparation of the meal he is more likely to want to help me during the week. So, I definitely enjoy that. It was like you know in the movies, you always see that romantic scene where boy and girl are having a glass of wine and making the meal. Well, now I get that.”

“I don’t get the question “What’s for dinner?” anymore; it’s more like, open the freezer… why don’t we have this for dinner tonight?”

“It’s very easy now when I entertain, my friends wonder like, gosh you’re such a good cook, you’re like Julia Childs… they don’t know my secret.”

- Anna Christoferson