Meal Co-op?

Once I've done something similar. We didn't cook/deliver, but each (4 friends) brought bulk fixings (meat, veggies, some sauces, ect...) for 4 portions of 4 different recipes. Then we spent a afternoon preparing basically freezer meals. Each of us went home with one meal from each recipe to stock the freezer. Fix and Freeze Feast is a great book -- (it has some vegetarian as well) It's designed for buying in bulk and preparing and freezing in dinner size amounts to be thawed and cooked. It's also written by a local author.

HTH
E.

Wow, this sounds like a great idea!

F.,

If you pull this together, please let me know! We're vegetarians, too, and I'd definitely be interested.

Thanks, M.

I've read about such co-ops in a couple or more magazines over the past few years. Also an article in the Oregonian newspaper. The food editor may be able to help you. You might be able to find those articles by googling the magazines by name and the subject expressed in different ways until you find what you want. I know one article was in Sunset magazine.

As I recall Sunset actually had people prepare the meals in a way similar to your suggestion and included participants comments.

I think the Oregonian article reported what a group of real people in our area started, perfected, and still did. They didn't get together to fix the meals. Each week (I think
that was the time frame) one household cooked enough of an entre' to take to the other households on the same day. I know entre' isn't spelled correctly.

I also think this is a great idea. I wanted to do it after reading the Sunset Magazine but realized I didn't have the time in one stretch to prepare together and my life wasn't organized enough to be reliable even for one day/month.