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Make And Take Meals-sociale And Let's Dish-have gluten-free Options!

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Jennas-auntie Apprentice
Jennas-auntie
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Ok, I was shocked to see on our local news that of the "Make and Take" meal places sprouting up, TWO have gluten free dishes available as options. These are the places you go in and they have all the products there for you and you assemble them and can take them home and freeze them for easy meals. Now, I've never done this because I've always frozen my own meals for a month, but hey-someone here might want to know.

The two are "Let's Dish" which is a chain and you can see which states they are in and will soon be coming to here: Open Original Shared Link (they average $2.80/serving) and Sociale, which has gourmet chefs available and is higher priced, and the news rated them at the best at tailor made meals, especially for special diets (they average $3.20/serving). Sociale is at about five MN Twin Cities locations, so it isn't nationwide. Here is the news comparison of the chains like this they researched Open Original Shared Link . I've never been in these places so I'm not sure how I'd feel doing gluten-free meals there, though I've heard you can take in your own utensils and stuff if you prefer, but I'm was just suprised it was even an option.

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The one I go to is dinner done. www.dinnerdone.com. They have location in FL and VA. I love this. They have a dietician that goes over all the ingredients. I have been doing this since I went gluten-free and I have never had a problem. It is great to just be able to pop something in the oven and have a meal an hour later.

I highly recommend these services. They also teach you how to cook. I have been much more creative in the kitchen since I started going there. I get so much food that I know I couldn't cook everything for less myself.

TinkerbellSwt Collaborator
TinkerbellSwt
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Wow these places sound great. Wish we had one up here. Sounds good to not have to cook one night and still have a dinner! lucky you!

Jennas-auntie Apprentice
Jennas-auntie
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Well, maybe I'll have to check them out now, as I've never used them before! I'm going to contact them I think and find out just what their gluten-free options are...I can always use help learning how to cook:)

Jennas-auntie Apprentice
Jennas-auntie
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Just an update, in case anyone wants to know: Let's Dish never got back to me, but Sociale did. The first letter from the owner said she thought the idea of marking which dishes are/could be made gluten free on their actual website was a good one and they are going to work on that (they had the peanut allergy marked on some dishes, and which are/could be vegetarian marked on others). The offerings changed month by month. Here is the letter from the chef:

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I just received your letter and would first like to start by saying how happy I am that you are interested in Sociale Gourmet! Here are some options for you and your family in the month of July. Some of the entrees can be modified to fit your request with just some minor changes.

A great day to you and yours!

Chef Ampy : P

Texas Pulled Pork

Just don't add the BBQ sauce.

Sociale's Summer Kabob Bar

Build your own kabobs stacked high with beef or chicken, large cut green peppers, cherry tomatoes, mushrooms, and sweet onions. *Select the Mediterranean Greek Sauce.

Ingredients: (Water, soybean oil, vinegar, salt, red wine vinegar, sugar, feta and romano made from cow's milk milk cheese (part-skim milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), garlic, contains less than 2% of spice, cucumber juice, dried garlic, dried onions, lemon juice concentrate, xanthan gum, with potassium sorbate and calcium disodium EDTA as preservatives, oleoresin paprika.)

SOCIALE'S FULLY LOADED BURGER BAR

1/2 lb. Certified Angus Beef® burgers or turkey burgers, are filled, "Juicy Lucy Style", with your choice of eight different gluten free ingredients!

FIERY CHICKEN DIABLO

Chicken, chilpotle peppers, tomato puree, vinegar, sunflower seed oil, onions, sugar, salt, paprika and garlic.

Holy Mole Pork Chops!

These dry rubbed pork chops.Using mild dried chilies, delicate spices and believe it or not, chocolate!

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Also, I noticed they have locations not only in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, but one in Charleston, SC, and one in Winston-Salem, NC.

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Cheri A Contributor
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This is so interesting b/c I've been looking at some OAMC sites. When I get back from vacation, I'm going to attempt this myself. I don't think that they could ever accomodate me because of the multiple FAs, but I will email them, too, and be interested in the gluten-free cooking so that others could have this option :D

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