"Southern Foods" food service, any experiences?

[Sigarms]

\"Southern Foods\" food service, any experiences?

Wife and I met with a sales rep last night.

They deliver "quality food" to your doorstep.

Wife is not "cheap" when it comes to food. Shes a great cook, and always has somthing new for dinner /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Anyone here use a "food delivery service" to supply meat and seafood?

Honestly, not as cheap as I would of thought, but... my misses is "sold on it" and likes what she saw from last night.

First delivery includes the freezer(sp?) and about 6 months worth of steak and other "quality food".

She also got the cookware(sp?) added in, and she knows her stuff on "cookware" (since we've been married, she hasn't bought anything).

Told her from the beginning that it's her choice.

Just curious if anyone has had any experiences with this type of "food service".

Thanks!

 

[BillyP]

Re: \"Southern Foods\" food service, any experiences?

Give us a breakdown of what you'll be getting and a total price (excluding cookware). This type of thing used to be popular around here but haven't seen it in years. People usually wind up getting things they wouldn't normally buy or care nothing about.

Most times you're better off buying from your local market.

 

[Sigarms]

Re: \"Southern Foods\" food service, any experiences?

"commercial Freezer" (standup) $1056 (and it is BIG)

Food price $1216

Actually, I probably don't want to know /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

Wife went over everything were getting in food.

Bottom line in food is "quality" steaks (majority), some seafood, chicken and bacon.

Food "should" last for at least 5 months.

Wife is VERY particular when it comes to her/our food, and we did get to try some steaks (which the salesman said was the "cheap end" on meat). Steak was VERY good. If the quality isn't there, they will hear from my wife /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

Wife ordered the "high end" on their meets.

Food is "protected" if anything should go wrong with the freezer (they cover all wrty work if the freezer comes from them).

Southern foods "claims" that they sell to a majority of the "finer" reastraunts (sp?) around town (which my wife and I frequent every week).

Ok, I really shouldn't be asking. Fact is my wife thinks this is the "way to go", and although I may "wonder" about it, she NEVER complains or ask why I want to spend money /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Sticker shock came only for the fact that we didn't want to finance anything (they break it down so it will "come in under" what you spend weekly on food).

Since we live about 1/2 hour away from the market, and it is my wife who does the food shopping, it will make her life easier (besides that, I did get the ZTR last month, AND I will be needing a tractor /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif)

Thks

 

[Freds]

Re: \"Southern Foods\" food service, any experiences?

Tell us what you think after 6 months.
I bought one of those package food deals about 20 years ago. It came with frozen veggies and the salesman made it sound like we would be self sufficient from the grocery store. Well, you still need your onions, potatos, tomatos, 'shrooms (to go with the steak /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif), cleaning products... you get the idea. After a couple months it seemed like all the good stuff was gone. Maybe we were making too much, the portions were small compared to what we normally bought and fixed. An 8 oz steak just doesn't cut it with me.
Other than convenience, the one plus I remember was the packaging (flash frozen, vacuum sealed? I don't remember), but when you thawed something, it tasted fresh.

That was my only experience with this kind of thing. Things may have changed. Let us know.

 

[Farmwithjunk]

Re: \"Southern Foods\" food service, any experiences?

Best way to tell if the food is good stuff is with a wide variety of individuals testing for you!

Invite us ALL over for dinner one night, and we'll gladly give you our critique /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[Sigarms]

Re: \"Southern Foods\" food service, any experiences?

Well, depending on where in Kentucky you are, your looking at least at a five hour drive to the great town of East Bend, N.C, but...a standing invitaion for dinner to anyone who wants to stop by /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Yes, the steak tasted both great and fresh.

Point made about the vegtables and "condiments" needed as well.

I won't mention how much the cookware was, but the wife liked it and mentioned from what she saw that it was a good price (have to laugh, when she told me how much, the expression on my face had to be the same expression she had when I told her how much a decent ZTR or tractor was /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif)

If anything, worse case scenerio, we get a decent upright freezer and cookware the wife likes, so...if shes happy,I'm happy /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Ok, in six months I'll let you know what I think.

 

[Farmwithjunk]

Re: \"Southern Foods\" food service, any experiences?

Before you lay out the welcome mat, you better realize that I'm 280 lbs, and didn't get that way by eating light meals! /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

By the way, Mount Washignton is mid-state east to west, and just a tick south of Louisville.

 

[Sigarms]

Re: \"Southern Foods\" food service, any experiences?

Well, my wife at one time wanted to go to culinary(sp?) school while living up in Vermont, AND she is a VERY GOOD cook, so it might be worth the drive /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Had to be up in Louisville last year for work, so your looking at about a five hour drive if I remember correctly.

Be warned, I have alot of wood that needs to be chopped and about 2000 yards of barb wire fence that needs to be redone somtime /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[Farmwithjunk]

Re: \"Southern Foods\" food service, any experiences?

Married a fine cook myself! That wasn't the reason we got married, but it sure is a good one. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

I'm about to start building fence here. Doing white board fence all along the road frontage. Gotta have something to paint and take care of in my old age.

5 hour drive...........? I'd work up quite an appetite in that time. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[BlueRidge]

Re: \"Southern Foods\" food service, any experiences?

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( An 8 oz steak just doesn't cut it with me. )</font>


8 oz. isn't a steak. It's a meat fragment!

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