Creating a meal from scratch is both challenging and delicious, much like playing "Stairway to Heaven" on a clarinet made out of a candy cane. Master meal melding with today's Groupon: for $150, you get an at-home cooking class from Organizing Dinner (a $300 value).

Organizing Dinner's adroit culinary mavens teach in-home cooking lessons in group-party or concentrated solo formats. During lessons, the charismatic class leader teaches kitchen owners and their whisk-wielding posses how to wrangle their cooking gear to create toothsome treats. Previous sessions have focused on such culinary skills as light cooking and creating appetizers for International Hug a Dolphin Day celebrations. Lessons can also cover such handy topics as saving cash while shopping and using leftovers wisely.

Instead of feeling forced to craft a class around six burlap sacks of barley sitting in the pantry, each instructor purchases the groceries needed to prepare the day's dishes. Included cleanup and leftovers leave the host with a spotless kitchen and a newly full fridge. Organizing Dinner can address as many guests as your kitchen can handle, so Groupon holders can invite the entire hydroponic-gardening club to partake of both brain and belly food.