Des Moines Gems, Guides, and Goodies (DSM G3)

Des Moines Gems, Guides, and Goodies (DSM G3)

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Goodies: Dinner Delights

Goodies: Dinner Delights

Easy Meals Made Locally in Des Moines

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I don’t think I need to belabor the point that I prefer to stay home. For everything.

This is tricky and pricey for someone who enjoys dining out and still loves how the pandemic changed food delivery.

So, sometimes, I need to eat at home. That, however, does not mean I like to cook. In fact, I’m a terrible cook. I can make biscuits, killer scrambled eggs, and cast-iron steak because I learned those from Alton Brown. I can make breakfast potatoes because I’ve been making those since I was a kid. That’s it. Anything that requires more than one pot or has more than four steps sends me to the Land of Overwhelm.

This is why I love Dinner Delights.

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I promise this isn’t a paid ad, even though it reads like one. Maybe I *should* go into copywriting.

Anyway, we started ordering from Dinner Delights during the pandemic. It was a great way for us to eat at home without cooking a meal from start to finish. Chopping vegetables and measuring stuff is such tedium to me. I wanna throw everything in a pot and let it do whatever it’s gonna do.

Dinner Delights is as close as I can get to that. It’s a local, woman-owned meal-service company that includes:

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