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 90th 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