Which meal kit does your college student use?

[Anonymous]

OP here. I wanted to let anyone with someone living off campus and not paying for a meal plan my kid loves it after a month since school started back. She still shops, but she chose hello fresh which offers a discount to students. She has ordered every week since school started and has for the most part loved it. Not every meal is a winner, but cooking for her is a way to recharge.

She likes how the packages don’t take up much space and include just enough for her to make two meals. The cost with the convenience works out to about $10.99 a meal with shipping. Yes she could pay less buying in bulk, but she shares with three other girls and even though they all have a mini fridge in addition to the main apartment fridge, there just isn’t enough room to store anything in bulk.

It is totally working for her and she loves having the option. It may not work for you or your child, but for her it is.

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Anonymous wrote:DS attends UVA and doesn't have time to cook due to his busy schedule. We pay a local chef to bring him high quality already cooked meals every three days for breakfast, lunch and dinner. DS tells the chef what he wants to eat for the next three days and they will be made ready for him in glass containers ready for microwave. DS is specific on what he wants to put into his body with specific calories for each meal. It cost a whole lot more than college meal plan but definitely worth it.

Nice try, troll. No chance this is true. Because if it is, you are deliberately raising the biggest douche to ever walk the earth.

A lot of young people in Orange County California outsource the cooking to someone else. You go online and pick what you want to eat each day and the meal will get delivered. Much more common than you think. My DS does this and he never learns how to cook his whole life.

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It is much more common than people think, especially for people who do care about their diet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I wanted to let anyone with someone living off campus and not paying for a meal plan my kid loves it after a month since school started back. She still shops, but she chose hello fresh which offers a discount to students. She has ordered every week since school started and has for the most part loved it. Not every meal is a winner, but cooking for her is a way to recharge.

She likes how the packages don’t take up much space and include just enough for her to make two meals. The cost with the convenience works out to about $10.99 a meal with shipping. Yes she could pay less buying in bulk, but she shares with three other girls and even though they all have a mini fridge in addition to the main apartment fridge, there just isn’t enough room to store anything in bulk.

It is totally working for her and she loves having the option. It may not work for you or your child, but for her it is.

Huh. Glad it is working for her. I tried the service for our family once and did not like it at all. Weird foods, quirky directions, and just not relevant to our lifestyle. I am surprised that a college student would like it.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone?

Not sure how common this is.

My kid found the dining hall to be much easier (and on weekends she made smoothies for breakfast, burritos for dinner).

Yeah I have yet to meet a college kid who really wants to cook some fancy meal when they could nuke a burrito.

lol! yes! They have their post-college adulthood to do cooking with ingredients!

[Anonymous]

My kid lived on campus and had the meal plan. Easy peasy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid lived on campus and had the meal plan. Easy peasy

Dd lived on campus last year and as a freshman had to have the meal plan. There isn’t enough dorms for upper classmen to live on campus. The meal plan was such a waste of money last year. It was barely used. She loves to cook and for her a meal kit service makes sense. It is two meals a week or four servings so there are left lovers.

Her roomies are jealous asking what smells so good.

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Anonymous wrote:Meal kits are gross and for lazy people

How are they for lazy people exactly?!?

"I'm so busy I can't possibly measure out a teaspoon of thyme or chop an onion. But I want boeuf bourginon for dinner."

+100 Too lazy to plan ahead, decide what is for dinner, make a grocery list from the recipe and go to the market. This applies to everyone that uses meal kits, not just students. Obviously just my opinion, but I find them the sign of being lazy or disorganized.

Eh, I recall in college I didn’t have a car and there was no grocery store within walking distance. One of these services could have been convenient. Not sure I would have taken advantage in undergrad but I definitely would have in grad school when I also didn’t have a car part of the time and definitely did want to do more cooking.

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t comment on which meal plan, but you will have to consider the security of apartment houses. I can see these boxes being stolen.

no one would steal then after they realize how much work it takes to prepare a meal

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