Boston Market or Cook?

[corarose]

Poll question: Boston Market or Cook?

I will be at home alone on the Holiday so I was wondering do you guys prefer to buy your Turkey Dinner at Boston Market or Cook Dinner.

I go to Culinary College and I am not sure that I want to be over a hot stove cooking up a storm on the holidays.

I will bake some brioche and pies but I don't want to cook dinner.

What do you think Boston Market or Cook Dinner?

[bif]

1. I'd go to Cook Dinner over Boston Market.

Oh, I thought it was the Cook Diner.Just kidding.

[Clovis Sangrail]

2. damn...

I'd take Top Ramen over Boston Market.
The one near me is terrible.

[supernova]

3. Do whatever will be easier

on you, corarose. No sense in adding to your burden if you don't want to.

A couple of years ago, neither my sister nor I felt like cooking so we went to a buffet at an Indian restaurant. :9 It was different but it was very, very good!

[corarose]

4. It will cost me around $40.00 bucks to make dinner

That's expensive.

[DS1]

10. are you cooking for 10?

.

[corarose]

16. Have you checked the price of a Turkey Turkey?

Lets see here goes the shopping list.

1 Small Turkey (If under 10 pounds they are $1.59 lb in Chicago)
$15.00

Stuffing
Ingredients around
$7.00 to $9.00

Salad
Cut up in a bag with Dressing
$4.00

Potatoes
Sweet or White
$3.00

Pan to cook the Turkey in
$3.00

Butter
$4.00


HELL ANY WOMAN OR MAN THAT COOKS CAN TELL YOU IT COSTS A HELL OF A LOT MORE TO COOK IT THEN TO GO AND BUY A $15.00 DINNER FROM BOSTON MARKET.

[DS1]

17. hold on a sec, let me get this straight

You're a chef in training, currently attending and getting straight As in a culinary college, and you don't have a pan, butter, potato, lettuce or bread crumbs?

:7

on top of that, how long would it take you to eat an entire turkey, what with your limited portion sizes?

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[BlueJazz]

5. Aw..Give yourself a break and bring the food home..

N/T

[bif]

6. Seriously, I'm not a fan of turkey

in the first place. We always have to cook it when my Dad's in town for T'day. I'd much rather have something non traditional. And I'd never cook up a whole turkey just for me. So if I was going to be alone, I'd either opt for something smaller or just have a turkeyburger/chickenburger.

[Renew Deal]

7. Dean n/t

[Nikia]

8. Boston Market

It sounds like what you had in mind for cooking will be more expensive. Since you cook often anyway, cooking for you is not really as special as for some people. It would easier all around for you probably just to buy it.

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[SOteric]

14. Reasonably good points, DS1

:hi:

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[mlawson]

11. As a vegetarian, why would I do either???

Not all of us are into this media driven, high saturated fat frenzy on Thursday. It just amazes me that people that I know, feel FORCED to participate in this annual high calorie, stressful ritual. They complain about having to go here and go there, eat stuff that *might* contain meat stock (what, MIGHT????), and have to face relatives they can not stand. I shrug and say, "Then DON'T GO!!! What would happen if you didn't?" They just mumble that they do have to... WHY?

:shrug:

[Piperay]

13. Same here

I'm spending the day the same as any other, though I will go see my father because since my mother died the holidays are hard on him. We'll probably just fix some waffles or something like that.

[corarose]

24. I was thinking about buying a Tofurky Dinner

Do you know how they taste?

[SOteric]

12. Boston Market franchises went tits-up-inna-ditch

in this part of the country. You can buy some of their frozen entrees at the supermarket, but there are no Boston Market stores. And it doesn't matter, -NO ONE in my entire family would purchase a Thanksgiving dinner. We plan our holiday menus well in advance and divvy out the chores.

[corarose]

19. They have one on Wells & North

I don't steal food from my College or Pots and Pans either.

So Boston Market would be a better bet.

Plus when you are cooking everyday you don't cook for youself. Ask a Chef what they eat when they go home and 9 out of 10 times they will tell you cereal.

[MSchreader]

25. I prefer to cook

But then, I took some gourmet cooking classes and I enjoy making nice, fancy meals.

Martin

[corarose]

26. I am cooking 6 days a week now to make up classes

Everyone at Culinary College is talking about laying back and letting someone else do it for a change.
I have no one else so Boston Market sounds good to me.

[MSchreader]

31. Makes sense

If you're cooking as a job/career, then I can really understand not wanting to do it on a holiday. Do you have a HoneyBaked Ham store in your area? They usually offer the whole deal for a decent price.

Martin

[Melsky]

27. Why not compromise?

Make a chicken instead of a turkey, and one side dish.

[corarose]

28. I have a coupon for Boston Market

I can get a whole Chicken for $3.99 or the Dinner for $15.99 and it includes pie and everything but I don't need the pie.

[grasswire]

29. gee, Chicago's food prices are horrible!

Premium quality butter here is $1.69 per pound with the sale coupon.

A local excellent natural turkey, fresh, not shot up with juices is 49 cents per pound if you purchase $25 in groceries, 89 cents if you just buy the turkey. Free range $1.19 per pound.

Local THICK whipping cream 89 cents per pint, cranberries 89 cents a pound fresh, Idaho russets 69 cents for ten pounds, celery 39 cents per pound, yams 39 cents.

[corarose]

30. Where do you live in the Hills?

I live in the downtown area of Chicago and haven't you heard they double charge us for everything.

[arwalden]

32. I've Had SEVERAL Boston Market Thanksgiving Dinners...

... it works beautifully as long as you put all the fixin's in serving dishes OTHER than the aluminum and styrofoam and plastic that it comes in when you pick it up.

Even if you're NOT trying to convince your family/guests that you did it yourself... even if they already know it's take-out... it just feels more like home-cooked if you don't have to view evidence to the contrary.

-- Allen

[REP]

33. We're Going Out

I am too weak to cook, well, much of anything, let alone a Thanksgiving dinner now, and this kidney infection, now in it's third week, isn't helping. The hardest thing I'll have to do on Thanksgiving is dress up a little.