Dining In

Dining In – I LOVE YOU!
What is not to LOVE about this service?
The food is delicious, gourmet, local & fresh
They deliver it to your home or office
The staff is extremely helpful/​nice/​accommodating
Calorie counts on everything (all entrees are under 500 calories anyways)
Takes a max of 3 – 4 minutes to warm anything up
Basically the deal here is … a menu is prepared on a weekly basis by a fantastic chef, they tailor it to your needs or preferences (allergies, diet, vegetarian, etc) — include calorie counts on all of the meals, and then you order by the Tuesday of that week.
Then… they deliver it to you. You can be home, or not home. In my case, they go in and load up my refrigerator every Monday while I’m @ work and then I come home to amazing goodness that I don’t have to slave over! They can also leave a thermal cooler if you prefer. Then you have a week of seriously AMAZING & gourmet meals with no sneaky additives or high sodium (read: frozen meals) and they deliver again the next week and pick up the containers that you used the previous week. Isn’t that great?! They are even eco-​friendly as well! If you prefer to have disposable & recyclable containers, you can request them– no problem.
Dining In has changed my life and after work regimen (THANK YOU) — and I would wholeheartedly recommend their meals to anyone!
Some of my all time faves are:
Shepherd’s Pie
Greek Platter
Honey mustard pan fried chicken
Chicken paprikash
Braised short ribs
Wasabi & Panko crusted pork
Turkey Meatloaf
Oso Bucco
Crab cakes
Gnocchi
Chocolate Chai Cake
Strawberry shortcake

Yummy, yummy, yummy.
I love Dining In services. The food is extraordinary. Even though it is food that you stick in the microwave, every morsel comes out moist and delicious, and garnished. Take out food never has a basil sprig for a garnish.
For the last six months, Traci and have staff have been a savior. Sometimes taking care of ourselves becomes too difficult and we need help, that was me. Feeding myself healthy food became too laborious amongst a mountain of other issues I needed to deal with. Having the Dining In staff to prepare my meals was one less worry, and to leave work knowing that I just had to wait 2 – 3 minutes for a delicious meal took a lot off my mind.
It is pricey though. My first bill came with some shock, I didn’t do the math right in my head. But if you can afford it, it is well worth the hard earned cash.

I signed up for Dining In because I was getting home later and later from work. Sure, I can cook but at 8 or later I don’t want to. And dining out, take out, and delivery left me feeling a little, um, plump.
Enter Dining In. All of their meals are healthy portions and ingredients and they’ll cater to your own dining desires (mine? weight watchers.). They work with mostly local/​organic ingredients and you can tell the food is high quality.
Each week you are sent menus to choose from for the next two weeks. The selection is very varied; the two diners in my home — both of us with fairly different tastebuds — can always find multiple selections that appeal to us.
Mondays are like holidays at my house. We get home (late after the commute) and look inside our Dining In cooler for our weekly delivery.
Even though we KNOW what’s going to be in there it’s like a big present each time.
We’ve been doing this for 3 months and I’m hooked. I love the selection, the food tastes good, and I LOVE coming home to healthy meals.

Dining In has been really great for us.
I am vegetarian but my husband is not and there are always great choices for both of us. The menu selections change every week, so I never get bored, and the staff is always happy to accomodate my dietary needs.
Sometimes I order down-​home comfort food and sometimes I choose more exotic dishes and everything has tasted fantastic.
I would absolutely recommend the service!

The food is fantastic and healthy, and the delivery service is so easy. I highly recommend this to anyone looking to eat healthier, wholesome meals.

I can’t tell you what a pleasure it is to come home every Tuesday night and find a fridge full of lunches, dinners, breakfasts & desserts. If left to my own devices, I’d be doing take-​out, or eating in restaurants, 5 nights a week; not good for the waist-​line. Di makes eating healthy so easy because every meal is at or below 400 calories, completely satiating and delicious. Being able to customize my meals to meet my specific tastes as well as my health goals is an absolute snap as I do it all over email. I also share my happiness in the form of DI gift certificates which I have give as wedding gifts and get-​well gifts.

Traci Higgins is the consumate professional and I would recommend her services to anyone who cares about what they put on the table.
I like how you can customize your meal selections and specify the foods you love and don’t like. It’s also painless, they drop the food off, label everything and include a great little menu and newsletter. The prices are less than Whole Foods and so much healthier. You’re also getting a much better product.
My favorite gift to new moms or people getting over an illness is a gift certificate of a week’s worth of meals. It’s so personal and so necessary with so many of us who live far from our families.
I have known Traci for years as a client and as a friend, she’s at the top of her game and what I like about her even more, she always wanting to get better and really listens to suggestions.

I have the cleanest kitchen in SF since I never have to use it for cooking thanks to Dining In. I absolutely love that my dinners and lunches come to my house and are beautifully prepared, portion controlled and taste yummy.
Traci is amazing. For those of you who think it is expensive, think again. It is cheaper to eat a satisfying meal than to go to whole foods and buy a bunch of stuff that is pre-​packaged with no nutritional information ie. calories. Also this service is a great gift for new parents, friends etc…
Try it — you will be hooked.

Dining In provides an amazing and unique service — healthy, delicious pre-​pepared food and in-​home delivery. I tried the zone diet delivery, and though it was effective (I starved) the food was nasty. Dining In is 10 million times better. We have been clients for well over a year now. My husband and I both work crazy hours and if it weren’t for Dining In, we would eat bread and cheese every night. The cost is not crazy considering we’d also be doing a lot of take-​out and/​or eating at crappy local neighborhood places.

After training in massive pain for the past two or three months with trainer extraordinaire, Gina Gutierrez-​Paul, I finally tried some of the delicious meals Dining In prepares and sets aside for Diakadi Body gym.
They come pre-​packaged and ready to heat. I bought two… the turkey meatloaf (delicious) and the chicken tacos (almost as delicious as the meatloaf.)
They’re not a drop in the bucket price-​wise, at $ 14 and $ 15 each. But they’re calorie counted, fat reduced, and portion controlled. Weight loss never tasted this good!
Except I ate two dinners in one sitting. Is that wrong?

Traci Higgins is the chef and owner of Dining In. She’s a nice lady; vivacious, happy, knowledgeable, and driven. She offers a wide variety of services, a great deal of flexibility in food selection, preparation, delivery, and planning, etc.
I bought my boss and Larry’s boss a gift certificate for Christmas which includes a four course gourmet dinner and a 3 course gourmet breakfast the next day, with flowers and wine included. Prepared at their respective homes. Traci does all the prep, cooking, serving and cleaning. Wow. Just, WOW.
We (the company) bought a co-​worker 14 dinners (so one week’s worth for he and his wife) after they had twins. For Christmas.
For myself, I bought the Be Fit & Fabulous package. It’s a four week program which includes one personal training session per week with a trainer at DIAKADI Body, two sessions with a nutrition expert, six meals per week from Dining In and one outdoor exercise session with Traci Higgins. I really need to get in shape PDQ and Traci makes it very easy and super convenient. Rolley Polley Lumps, LOOK OUT!
And now we’ve booked Traci and her kitchen for a company cooking party! It’s going to be SOOOO FUN!!! Traci will introduce us to new cooking techniques/​skills, educate us on food preparation, and more. We will prepare our own food in small teams of 2 or 3 people; cook what we prepare; and, dine right there at Dining In, all under the direction and supervision of Traci, herself. How cool is THAT??? It’s like BEING on one of those cooking shows! And reasonably priced, as well, at about $ 750 for the whole deal (for 10 people), to include high-​end food.
Anyhow, my package is $ 225 per week and the gift certificates were in the $ 250 price range — a little more for the gourmet dinners/​breakfasts, but they’re worth it. Over all, not bad at all.
* another cool side note: Dining In promotes Diakadi and Diakadi promotes Dining In. I think that is a really nice professional gesture coming from two very well known establishments that really no longer need advertising. Very cool, indeed.