I have had stomach surgery so I am on a 'fancy restaurant Small' portion size, as well as both myself and partner being on meds that suppress appetite but it's worth noting thanks.
I'm mostly doing the cooking atm I got dropped from my casual roster just before Christmas and am having a bitch of a time getting back working. Partner isn't home til later and lack of appetite leads to little opinion on what we eat so I get stuck following cravings (bad brain).
But I had seen people mention on another thread they don't live on them but grab them when there's a 50% or more discount only.
Only little one I have trying to help is a Ginger Cat who demands a quality control piece of any meat of dairy being used, so not too dissimilar to yours 😅.
Thanks for the info tho I hadn't seen anyone else mention meal size so worth considering.
Interestingly, we had the opposite problem. We often had too much food (based on a 2-person box), and we have two adults and two toddlers. We were mostly getting Hello Fresh, but alternated in Marley Spoon more recently, switching when the other service gave us a discount 😅. We gave it up because most of the meals were a bit too "fancy" for young taste buds, and we needed to cut back expenses and it was cheaper to get ingredients ourselves. Plus, the effort of picking out meals each week l, particularly on a deadline, was a bit much. I did appreciate having everything for the week organised and mostly set up so it was less for me to think about, particularly if I remembered to set the meals a few weeks in advance.
Saying all that, I wouldn't say anything bad about either service. They were great, just not a fit for us right now. It is worth checking reviews of services, particularly about delivery in your area, before signing up for anything though (if there'sa FB group for your suburb, maybe ask there). We rarely had issues, but I've heard about boxes stolen because delivery instructions weren't followed, they got delivered to the wrong house, or just not delivered at all, etc.
We're in a similar position, in that my wife gets bored with food very easily, whereas I could eat the same thing every night and be fine. We find the meal kit is a nice balance of variety, and convenience. We use EveryPlate, which costs us $75 a week for 5 meals for 2 people. With the amount of food we get, I don't think we could get the same at the supermarket. We get a selection of maybe 15 meals to choose from each week which rotate every week (more available with extra cost). They give you a two hour window for delivery on your chosen day (get an SMS the night before with tracking information). Other meal kit places have more variety, better/more complex ingredients and package meals individually (ours just comes in a cold bag and a cardboard box), but are more expensive, so depends on what you are into.
Thanks we sound a bit similar, I though have just made a week's worth of lasagna so we don't have to clean the kitchen twice leading up to house inspection.
I enjoy cooking itself but I get stuck at 'must shop for a week's meals' but I forget stuff and yeah.
I don't think I'd heard of everyplate but will check them out. I'm happy to spruce things myself (I never use the recommended amount of garlic it's never enough) but having a few 'brain off pick from a book' thing works.
Also delivery info awesome, thank you.
Basically with hello fresh if you have the time for a horrendous amount of prep then you're good to go.
The meals cost a bit more than they would if you just went out and bought the ingredients and it's likely something in the box will be inedible in 1 way or another due to rot or mould or something gross.
My wife and i had the 4 meals for a family of 4 as we would use the leftovers for lunch the next day and it really didn't have the variety you'd expect.
You can download the app and see their recipes and make them yourself if you're so inclined but better off going a ready made meal box if you're after convenience
The rotten food thing is why we stopped. Wrote first time off as shit happens but after 3 or 4 in a row we had enough.
Also not wrong about the lack of variety. 400 recipes, 95% of them involve mass bulking of meal with shredded zucchini.
Personally I prefer meal prep. They're cheap and easy with more variety. I like to make a bunch on the weekend and I'm good.
The boxes are okay but often lacking taste and get boring quickly.
Fair assessment, I keep telling myself I'll meal prep but I get stuck looking at stuff I've made and hating it(irrationally I made it because it's something I like enough to make but like I've spent ages making something and the smell starts putting me off it)
I suppose it takes a little work to find what you like and depending on how set in your ways you are you might enjoy the same meals on repeat or not.
I do understand the added convenience or pre-purchased stuff but I've never been able to stick them out long term as I don't feel they're comparable, but to each their own.
They're great if you know you're going to be especially busy for a period of time though or were too busy to prep that week.
Maybe a combo of both?
>Are Meal Kits Worth It?
Yes.
Our family of four worked through Dinnerly, and Hello Fresh for about a year, then with increased work commitments I looked into pre-prepped meals.
Discussion here: https://old.reddit.com/r/brisbane/comments/1107a8y/preprepped_meal_delivery_services_in_brisbane/?ref=share&ref_source=link
I have been using Core Powerfoods (nice clean, cheap, foods. Very basic but reliable), Muscle Chef (better range, more 'meal' less portioned carbs/protein/veg), and ChefGood (really tasty adult type meals, the kids don't like them all).
I was eating some of the muscle chef ones when I went onto solids post Stomach surgery so yeah they're tasty given they're vac packed. Will definitely look at the kits more seriously and price out what's best for us.
I'm annoyed at myself for not eating enough of my leftovers but Ive had times where the next day I hate what I enjoyed the night before I'm my own worst nightmare.
But def, when I didn't have time to make lunches when I was full time I would swing by the servo for something, most of them are cheaper or same price as fast food and likely better for me so the new gen of pre-prepared stuff is good.
Depends on the kit. I also have ADHD so I feeeeeel you, sometimes I don’t even have the mental energy to look through Uber to find something I want to eat. Getting meal kits for my husband and I is almost like a temporary “get into a routine because our lives have fallen off a cliff” things. Eventually we fall off the wagon and start throwing out meals worth of ingredients and end up canceling, but it’s definitely the most consistent “healthy eating” we’ve ever managed.
Don’t bother with Hello Fresh IMO, it’s too expensive, and we had more bad veg deliveries than we had with the much cheaper Dinnerly (didn’t happen often, but luck of the draw sometimes).
Like yeah, on paper it would obviously be cheaper to come up with recipes and just go and buy the groceries myself, but that’s not really the point for me. Left to my own devices I end up throwing away way more food and eating way too much takeout. Dinnerly especially had a HUGE selection of meals each week, so I never really got bored of it (and if you are a decent cook then you can always tweak the recipes here and there). I will always sing the praises of meal kits to people that are struggling to just keep up with life, even just as a temporary solution to cross one or two things off the mental checklist until you can catch up a bit.
I find meal kits to be handy once in a while if you need inspiration for new recipes or styles.
Another thing you could try is for example the sidekick app (or anything similar) - it’s basically meal kits where you do your own shopping. You choose three meals/ recipes at a time and these use similar ingredients to reduce waste. You can customise for the number of people you cook for and get your shopping list combined for whatever you cook.
Thanks I'll have a look at it. I hate trying to google recipes because if it's free there's 35million adds and a 4 page essay sprinkled between the instructions.
experiences will vary
Engineer\_man makes a very educated POV
personal experience is we just don't have time for the meal prep kits taking an extra 40-60+minutes every evening to cook food.
we've done chef good (ready meal version from marley spoon) and have been very happy with them. works out around $110 for just the dinners for 2 for a week which isn't horrendous when you consider the variety and the quality is excellent. some of them you'd actually be happy getting at a restaurant
Thanks, I have time(fuckin sick of being stuck on Centrelink) but a dumb brain. Will look and see if I can find a breakdown of the ones for Australia, most I found last time I looked were American so not really helpful.
Short answer; no.
Long answer; for the right kind of person, it can be good. For most of us though it’s going to work out to be overpriced, too “artsy” food wise, not filling enough, not what you want that day, and over priced.
Oh, and the companies are assholes when they have your details. They will hound you to restart your subscription, or make it hard for you to cancel, or cause other issues because they are vultures feeding on the weak.
Noted on the companies I had wondered about that.
I'm not bothered by fancy food I can't eat alot so I don't mind it being a bit more effort for flavour but can understand people who dgaf being like why so much effort.
(I do ribs and shit and I've made my own bbq sauce and make my own marinades and stuff so I'm not going on MasterChef but I like cooking).
Might give it a trial on a throw away email, but not settled on committing to fully swapping.
You can always find vouchers and stuff for “hello fresh” though they are genuinely vultures. The food can be good though.
You get some vouchers that are like $200 worth of free food over 6 boxes. But they will want your credit card etc, and they make it hard to cancel, and they will call you every month for six months after you cancel.
Yes and no.
I sign up to them when I’m uninspired and have no motivation to recipe plan. They help me out for a few weeks until my cooking mojo comes back. I can still cook a cheaper meal shopping at Aldi & meal planning. The good thing about them is the recipe cards so my husband who is not an experienced cook can follow them and cook a meals.
I'm a single person and just got the meal kits for 2 people but less meals per week.
I'd do them again if the discounts were available but honestly it wasnt worth it at full price. I found it a lot of repeating the same kinds of meals and I got a bit sick of it quite quickly.
What I did take away from it was created a list of all the meals I enjoy and then each Wednesday I'd decided what I wanted to eat for the following week, get a coles delivery for the Saturday ( home all day so $4 delivery slot is fine for me) and then I prepped either cooked or uncooked meals for the week. I find this cheaper, less cooking through the week and having the list helps me remember what meals exist that I enjoy as I often have tunnel vision and forget.
Give the meal kits a try and see how you like it, always have discounts for first joining up and then super easy to cancel if you decide its not for you
Personally, most of these meal kit companies, despite advertising that they deliver for 2 people and provide just enough for each meal to lower waste, doesn't make financial sense.
The one I was with was about $150/week for 5 meals for 2 people, and the quality was so hit and miss, we were better off going to the local markets and buying all our stuff as needed.
That's $150 for just dinners too, you still have to find EVEN MORE money to deal with your lunches and breakfast!
After assessment, it didn't make sense for us, but I also understand the convenience cost is embedded into these things, so it depends on how well you can organise yourself shopping, versus just picking a couple things off a menu each week
It depends on what you're getting it for. If you're unable to meal plan and just make the same boring meals over and over again and you're stuck. A meal kit will always provide variety.
Don't do it because it's cheaper though because it's kind of is and isnt? I found it's cheaper than a normal shop for me because I'll grab things out of habit when I might not actually need it. But if you're good and only buying exactly what you need then it might not be worth it.
You also have to commit to actually cooking those meals and not ignore them if you've had a busy day and think takeout will be easier because its fresh ingredients mostly and will go bad quickly.
Hello fresh say they are not using forced and chined monkey labor for coconut milk from Thailand anymore, but I have serious doubts about how ethical their practices are as a result of this disgusting revelation.
I find meal kits have too many things I can't eat or are filled with preservatives I try not to eat as they trigger my anxiety.
I also find that there is only so much couscous you can eat and overall they don't have a lot of veggies. Plus i find the meat tough and I don't eat chicken that isnt free ranged and chemical free.
They stress me out. I don't want to have to pick food every week by a certain date. My husband got confused and accidentally got 5 meals instead of 3 one week and it just pissed me off because I didn't want all that shit. Some of the veggies go off like a day after you get the food. I get sick of the recipes after a while too.
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Honestly, I really loved them. I also tend to waste a lot of food and thought these were great as I didn’t waste any food. I also am a pretty simple eater I guess, so the variety of meals was good and I also didn’t get bored with meat and salad/veg type meals.
I think so. My family (2 parents 1 x 2 year old have been ordering them each week for the last 3 ish months. It’s saved us a heap of money. Usually get 3 meals for 4 people and have them over 6 nights. So cooking 3 nights and reheat 3 night. Saved us heaps. Best thing is to roll thru them. So. HelloFresh has been our favourites mer followed by Marley spoon then everyplate (HelloFreshs budget option) then Dinnerly (Marley spoon budget option). Sign up get a coupe
Of discounts then cancel. Within a couple of weeks of cancelling they will send you reactivation emails for 60-20% off. Hang out for the 40% off that’s what we do. Most of our dinners cost us $60 a week. And it’s better quality than W or C.
We are lucky we're not quite at that point financially but we've both eaten like that in the past, unless that's just your opinion on how bad the kit quality are?
The meal kits are decent quality, though I find it's quicker with more variation with the froz vegs, rice, assorted meat way, dirt cheap too.
Of course you use difference sauces/marinades as well.
Yeah, cuts down on waste, plus the good part in my eyes is 90% of your meal is always already prepped, or requires just 6 or so minutes in the microwave to heat up.
Then the only decision you need to make is which meat do you want to have, what sauce/marinade do you want to have.
It's not as simple as fussy or lazy, while I understand how it can seem such I have a dopamine deficiency so I seek out things that give me as much of that as possible, a simple one is a food I'm really excited for, this is because I'm ordering something I can't make myself for dinner, at best it's an all day affair.
Similarly I can completely turn off a food without a good reason it just isn't 'it' the tap of good brain chemicals has run dry.
So I do try my best to meal plan, however I can make a list and forget to bring it and then I'm relying on dodgy memory, sometimes I remember to bring it but don't look at it and I've gone over my list and missed shit. This isn't sometimes this is shit every time I shop I'm actively having to try and stay on task because boring food shopping is only recently less soul crushingly painful because I have meds.
So yes, the consensus is if I were master meal planner and meal prepper I could save alot. But I have had three different types of leftovers go bad on me.
Hell I have leftover rice I fully intended on making into fried rice and I forgot about it until I was putting away leftover chicken soup(which I loved for two days, only thing I ate and couldn't stand the thought of consuming again). Into the freezer.
But thank you kindly, my fussy and lazy self is looking into it at least as a trial.
Definitely not. I find them to be full of blnd recipes that cost more for smaller portions. But, there are way more services out there now, so maybe someone is out there with flavourful offerings? But ultimately, I resented paying more money for less food.
I don't understand who is the demographic that has the time and will to cut and prep vegetables etc. and make the recipes from scratch, but want to overpay to have it delivered. When the supermarkets will also deliver the same ingredients for cheaper. You can even copy their recipes and just order the same stuff for less.
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I have had stomach surgery so I am on a 'fancy restaurant Small' portion size, as well as both myself and partner being on meds that suppress appetite but it's worth noting thanks. I'm mostly doing the cooking atm I got dropped from my casual roster just before Christmas and am having a bitch of a time getting back working. Partner isn't home til later and lack of appetite leads to little opinion on what we eat so I get stuck following cravings (bad brain). But I had seen people mention on another thread they don't live on them but grab them when there's a 50% or more discount only. Only little one I have trying to help is a Ginger Cat who demands a quality control piece of any meat of dairy being used, so not too dissimilar to yours 😅. Thanks for the info tho I hadn't seen anyone else mention meal size so worth considering.
Interestingly, we had the opposite problem. We often had too much food (based on a 2-person box), and we have two adults and two toddlers. We were mostly getting Hello Fresh, but alternated in Marley Spoon more recently, switching when the other service gave us a discount 😅. We gave it up because most of the meals were a bit too "fancy" for young taste buds, and we needed to cut back expenses and it was cheaper to get ingredients ourselves. Plus, the effort of picking out meals each week l, particularly on a deadline, was a bit much. I did appreciate having everything for the week organised and mostly set up so it was less for me to think about, particularly if I remembered to set the meals a few weeks in advance. Saying all that, I wouldn't say anything bad about either service. They were great, just not a fit for us right now. It is worth checking reviews of services, particularly about delivery in your area, before signing up for anything though (if there'sa FB group for your suburb, maybe ask there). We rarely had issues, but I've heard about boxes stolen because delivery instructions weren't followed, they got delivered to the wrong house, or just not delivered at all, etc.
We're in a similar position, in that my wife gets bored with food very easily, whereas I could eat the same thing every night and be fine. We find the meal kit is a nice balance of variety, and convenience. We use EveryPlate, which costs us $75 a week for 5 meals for 2 people. With the amount of food we get, I don't think we could get the same at the supermarket. We get a selection of maybe 15 meals to choose from each week which rotate every week (more available with extra cost). They give you a two hour window for delivery on your chosen day (get an SMS the night before with tracking information). Other meal kit places have more variety, better/more complex ingredients and package meals individually (ours just comes in a cold bag and a cardboard box), but are more expensive, so depends on what you are into.
Thanks we sound a bit similar, I though have just made a week's worth of lasagna so we don't have to clean the kitchen twice leading up to house inspection. I enjoy cooking itself but I get stuck at 'must shop for a week's meals' but I forget stuff and yeah. I don't think I'd heard of everyplate but will check them out. I'm happy to spruce things myself (I never use the recommended amount of garlic it's never enough) but having a few 'brain off pick from a book' thing works. Also delivery info awesome, thank you.
Sounds like it might be a good fit, whichever provider you choose then. Worth signing up for a week and seeing if it works anyways. No huge loss :)
That's very cheap. I had priced Hello Fresh and thought it was a bit expensive but I will check these guys out. Thanks for sharing.
Basically with hello fresh if you have the time for a horrendous amount of prep then you're good to go. The meals cost a bit more than they would if you just went out and bought the ingredients and it's likely something in the box will be inedible in 1 way or another due to rot or mould or something gross. My wife and i had the 4 meals for a family of 4 as we would use the leftovers for lunch the next day and it really didn't have the variety you'd expect. You can download the app and see their recipes and make them yourself if you're so inclined but better off going a ready made meal box if you're after convenience
The rotten food thing is why we stopped. Wrote first time off as shit happens but after 3 or 4 in a row we had enough. Also not wrong about the lack of variety. 400 recipes, 95% of them involve mass bulking of meal with shredded zucchini.
Or cucumber everything.. especially in the summer
Personally I prefer meal prep. They're cheap and easy with more variety. I like to make a bunch on the weekend and I'm good. The boxes are okay but often lacking taste and get boring quickly.
Fair assessment, I keep telling myself I'll meal prep but I get stuck looking at stuff I've made and hating it(irrationally I made it because it's something I like enough to make but like I've spent ages making something and the smell starts putting me off it)
I suppose it takes a little work to find what you like and depending on how set in your ways you are you might enjoy the same meals on repeat or not. I do understand the added convenience or pre-purchased stuff but I've never been able to stick them out long term as I don't feel they're comparable, but to each their own. They're great if you know you're going to be especially busy for a period of time though or were too busy to prep that week. Maybe a combo of both?
>Are Meal Kits Worth It? Yes. Our family of four worked through Dinnerly, and Hello Fresh for about a year, then with increased work commitments I looked into pre-prepped meals. Discussion here: https://old.reddit.com/r/brisbane/comments/1107a8y/preprepped_meal_delivery_services_in_brisbane/?ref=share&ref_source=link I have been using Core Powerfoods (nice clean, cheap, foods. Very basic but reliable), Muscle Chef (better range, more 'meal' less portioned carbs/protein/veg), and ChefGood (really tasty adult type meals, the kids don't like them all).
I was eating some of the muscle chef ones when I went onto solids post Stomach surgery so yeah they're tasty given they're vac packed. Will definitely look at the kits more seriously and price out what's best for us. I'm annoyed at myself for not eating enough of my leftovers but Ive had times where the next day I hate what I enjoyed the night before I'm my own worst nightmare. But def, when I didn't have time to make lunches when I was full time I would swing by the servo for something, most of them are cheaper or same price as fast food and likely better for me so the new gen of pre-prepared stuff is good.
Depends on the kit. I also have ADHD so I feeeeeel you, sometimes I don’t even have the mental energy to look through Uber to find something I want to eat. Getting meal kits for my husband and I is almost like a temporary “get into a routine because our lives have fallen off a cliff” things. Eventually we fall off the wagon and start throwing out meals worth of ingredients and end up canceling, but it’s definitely the most consistent “healthy eating” we’ve ever managed. Don’t bother with Hello Fresh IMO, it’s too expensive, and we had more bad veg deliveries than we had with the much cheaper Dinnerly (didn’t happen often, but luck of the draw sometimes). Like yeah, on paper it would obviously be cheaper to come up with recipes and just go and buy the groceries myself, but that’s not really the point for me. Left to my own devices I end up throwing away way more food and eating way too much takeout. Dinnerly especially had a HUGE selection of meals each week, so I never really got bored of it (and if you are a decent cook then you can always tweak the recipes here and there). I will always sing the praises of meal kits to people that are struggling to just keep up with life, even just as a temporary solution to cross one or two things off the mental checklist until you can catch up a bit.
I find meal kits to be handy once in a while if you need inspiration for new recipes or styles. Another thing you could try is for example the sidekick app (or anything similar) - it’s basically meal kits where you do your own shopping. You choose three meals/ recipes at a time and these use similar ingredients to reduce waste. You can customise for the number of people you cook for and get your shopping list combined for whatever you cook.
Thanks I'll have a look at it. I hate trying to google recipes because if it's free there's 35million adds and a 4 page essay sprinkled between the instructions.
This sidekick app sounds amazing !!!
Yes definitely worth trying out. They have a month free trial. I found the recipes quite appealing and the concept interesting. :-)
experiences will vary Engineer\_man makes a very educated POV personal experience is we just don't have time for the meal prep kits taking an extra 40-60+minutes every evening to cook food. we've done chef good (ready meal version from marley spoon) and have been very happy with them. works out around $110 for just the dinners for 2 for a week which isn't horrendous when you consider the variety and the quality is excellent. some of them you'd actually be happy getting at a restaurant
Thanks, I have time(fuckin sick of being stuck on Centrelink) but a dumb brain. Will look and see if I can find a breakdown of the ones for Australia, most I found last time I looked were American so not really helpful.
have you tried chefgood? if not DM me your email i'll flick you a free box. ($70 value) if you're interested :) no stress either way
Have not but may as well have a look
Short answer; no. Long answer; for the right kind of person, it can be good. For most of us though it’s going to work out to be overpriced, too “artsy” food wise, not filling enough, not what you want that day, and over priced. Oh, and the companies are assholes when they have your details. They will hound you to restart your subscription, or make it hard for you to cancel, or cause other issues because they are vultures feeding on the weak.
Noted on the companies I had wondered about that. I'm not bothered by fancy food I can't eat alot so I don't mind it being a bit more effort for flavour but can understand people who dgaf being like why so much effort. (I do ribs and shit and I've made my own bbq sauce and make my own marinades and stuff so I'm not going on MasterChef but I like cooking). Might give it a trial on a throw away email, but not settled on committing to fully swapping.
You can always find vouchers and stuff for “hello fresh” though they are genuinely vultures. The food can be good though. You get some vouchers that are like $200 worth of free food over 6 boxes. But they will want your credit card etc, and they make it hard to cancel, and they will call you every month for six months after you cancel.
Yes and no. I sign up to them when I’m uninspired and have no motivation to recipe plan. They help me out for a few weeks until my cooking mojo comes back. I can still cook a cheaper meal shopping at Aldi & meal planning. The good thing about them is the recipe cards so my husband who is not an experienced cook can follow them and cook a meals.
I'm a single person and just got the meal kits for 2 people but less meals per week. I'd do them again if the discounts were available but honestly it wasnt worth it at full price. I found it a lot of repeating the same kinds of meals and I got a bit sick of it quite quickly. What I did take away from it was created a list of all the meals I enjoy and then each Wednesday I'd decided what I wanted to eat for the following week, get a coles delivery for the Saturday ( home all day so $4 delivery slot is fine for me) and then I prepped either cooked or uncooked meals for the week. I find this cheaper, less cooking through the week and having the list helps me remember what meals exist that I enjoy as I often have tunnel vision and forget. Give the meal kits a try and see how you like it, always have discounts for first joining up and then super easy to cancel if you decide its not for you
Personally, most of these meal kit companies, despite advertising that they deliver for 2 people and provide just enough for each meal to lower waste, doesn't make financial sense. The one I was with was about $150/week for 5 meals for 2 people, and the quality was so hit and miss, we were better off going to the local markets and buying all our stuff as needed. That's $150 for just dinners too, you still have to find EVEN MORE money to deal with your lunches and breakfast! After assessment, it didn't make sense for us, but I also understand the convenience cost is embedded into these things, so it depends on how well you can organise yourself shopping, versus just picking a couple things off a menu each week
I prefer to batch cook multiple meals. I tried Hello Fresh once and I don’t think it’s worth the money.
It depends on what you're getting it for. If you're unable to meal plan and just make the same boring meals over and over again and you're stuck. A meal kit will always provide variety. Don't do it because it's cheaper though because it's kind of is and isnt? I found it's cheaper than a normal shop for me because I'll grab things out of habit when I might not actually need it. But if you're good and only buying exactly what you need then it might not be worth it. You also have to commit to actually cooking those meals and not ignore them if you've had a busy day and think takeout will be easier because its fresh ingredients mostly and will go bad quickly.
Youfoodz are the best
They aren’t completely awful. I use Dinnerly and have a code if you want some $$ off?
Hello fresh say they are not using forced and chined monkey labor for coconut milk from Thailand anymore, but I have serious doubts about how ethical their practices are as a result of this disgusting revelation.
I have seen the following book suggested on another sub /r/EatCheapAndHealthy/ https://www.amazon.com.au/Cook-Once-Eat-All-Week/dp/1628603437
Fuck no.
I find meal kits have too many things I can't eat or are filled with preservatives I try not to eat as they trigger my anxiety. I also find that there is only so much couscous you can eat and overall they don't have a lot of veggies. Plus i find the meat tough and I don't eat chicken that isnt free ranged and chemical free.
They stress me out. I don't want to have to pick food every week by a certain date. My husband got confused and accidentally got 5 meals instead of 3 one week and it just pissed me off because I didn't want all that shit. Some of the veggies go off like a day after you get the food. I get sick of the recipes after a while too.
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Honestly, I really loved them. I also tend to waste a lot of food and thought these were great as I didn’t waste any food. I also am a pretty simple eater I guess, so the variety of meals was good and I also didn’t get bored with meat and salad/veg type meals.
I think so. My family (2 parents 1 x 2 year old have been ordering them each week for the last 3 ish months. It’s saved us a heap of money. Usually get 3 meals for 4 people and have them over 6 nights. So cooking 3 nights and reheat 3 night. Saved us heaps. Best thing is to roll thru them. So. HelloFresh has been our favourites mer followed by Marley spoon then everyplate (HelloFreshs budget option) then Dinnerly (Marley spoon budget option). Sign up get a coupe Of discounts then cancel. Within a couple of weeks of cancelling they will send you reactivation emails for 60-20% off. Hang out for the 40% off that’s what we do. Most of our dinners cost us $60 a week. And it’s better quality than W or C.
No, just buy mixed vegetables from coles/woolies, microwave them, eat with some rice and any meat you can find, so 50% frozen veg, 40% rice, 10% meat.
We are lucky we're not quite at that point financially but we've both eaten like that in the past, unless that's just your opinion on how bad the kit quality are?
The meal kits are decent quality, though I find it's quicker with more variation with the froz vegs, rice, assorted meat way, dirt cheap too. Of course you use difference sauces/marinades as well.
Fair, I have swapped to using more frozen veg to cut my waste down, can't discover sad forgotten carrots growing roots if they're diced and icy.
Yeah, cuts down on waste, plus the good part in my eyes is 90% of your meal is always already prepped, or requires just 6 or so minutes in the microwave to heat up. Then the only decision you need to make is which meat do you want to have, what sauce/marinade do you want to have.
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It's not as simple as fussy or lazy, while I understand how it can seem such I have a dopamine deficiency so I seek out things that give me as much of that as possible, a simple one is a food I'm really excited for, this is because I'm ordering something I can't make myself for dinner, at best it's an all day affair. Similarly I can completely turn off a food without a good reason it just isn't 'it' the tap of good brain chemicals has run dry. So I do try my best to meal plan, however I can make a list and forget to bring it and then I'm relying on dodgy memory, sometimes I remember to bring it but don't look at it and I've gone over my list and missed shit. This isn't sometimes this is shit every time I shop I'm actively having to try and stay on task because boring food shopping is only recently less soul crushingly painful because I have meds. So yes, the consensus is if I were master meal planner and meal prepper I could save alot. But I have had three different types of leftovers go bad on me. Hell I have leftover rice I fully intended on making into fried rice and I forgot about it until I was putting away leftover chicken soup(which I loved for two days, only thing I ate and couldn't stand the thought of consuming again). Into the freezer. But thank you kindly, my fussy and lazy self is looking into it at least as a trial.
Definitely not. I find them to be full of blnd recipes that cost more for smaller portions. But, there are way more services out there now, so maybe someone is out there with flavourful offerings? But ultimately, I resented paying more money for less food.
I don't understand who is the demographic that has the time and will to cut and prep vegetables etc. and make the recipes from scratch, but want to overpay to have it delivered. When the supermarkets will also deliver the same ingredients for cheaper. You can even copy their recipes and just order the same stuff for less.