Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Happy to do what I do!

So after a small hiatus from the blogging world, I'm back!

I am very honored to tell you about how my business has helped a couple of different families over the past couple of months.
I am a Personal Chef and I cook for busy people to help with the What's for dinner? dilemma. I know that families are sitting down to a healthy home-cooked meal with their family to chat about their day and spend good quality time together.

I am a big family man, family is very important to me. In this business I get a chance to help people eat well everyday. I enjoy serving people and making others happy. So when an opportunity comes around where I can really help a family in need, I am there and I take pride in being able to provide that service.

I was contacted by Sylvie Giroux who works for a company called Accenture. She called me and asked if it would be possible for me to cook for a co-worker of hers, whose wife had fallen ill and was unable to stand for any for any length of time. I had said I would be glad to be able to help this family out. I spoke to Ian and Jeanette and created a menu for them.

Jeanette had suffered a form of menengitis in her foot and was in the hospital for approximately a week. Jeanette and her husband Ian also have 3 boys as well. So having some food for the family to eat and not have to worry about cooking was a welcome relief to the family.

Sylvie had felt that instead of sending flowers or having someone bake them a lasagna (which I did make for them :)), she thought it would be a great idea to give them a cook service from Chef Chez You to help them with 2 weeks worth of evening meals.

I heard that Jeanette and Ian were very overwhelmed by the geneorsity of Ian's co-workers. Now the fact that I was able to help them out was such a joy for me to know how much time and energy that saved them, I am thrilled and honored to be able to be part of their homecoming and taking the stress off wondering what's for dinner. The great thing to come from this is that Jeanette is on the mend and they enjoyed the food so much, they have now become my clients.

On another occasion not long after I cooked for Ian and Jeanette, I recieved another call from Sylvie and she had another co-worker who in dire need of some food and would I be able to help him out. Obviously I was thrilled that she asked me once again and I met with Mark and asked him about his likes and dislikes, I created a menu for him.

I prepared the meals and he was blown away by how many meals he was given. He was so appreciative to have prepared meals for him as he was recovering from a bout of Viral Encephalitis, which kept him in the hospital for more than 2 weeks. His parents had come down to take care of him and prepare him some food for his freezer, but they were so relieved to have some more meals for Mark to help him on his way to recovery.

I am so happy to be able to use my craft to help people recover and have a little less stress in the kitchen.

So if you are looking to give something special to someone recovering at home from an illness, consider getting them a Personal Chef Service to help them reduce the stress of worrying about what's for dinner?. They will love you for it!