Which meal kit does your college student use?

[Anonymous]

DD was doing HF but said the quality of the food went downhill. She was on the 3 meals per week for 2 people. So she'd cook and have leftovers for lunch the next day.

She stopped her HF deliveries in Feb or March and just cooked on her own instead.

[Anonymous]

I liked Mosaic if your kid has the freezer space and doesn't mind middle eastern spices.

Hello Fresh was never ... fresh. I had too many deliveries of rotten produce to ever trust it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I liked Mosaic if your kid has the freezer space and doesn't mind middle eastern spices.

Hello Fresh was never ... fresh. I had too many deliveries of rotten produce to ever trust it.

05:11 here -- this is what my kid said, too. She compared the "quality" of the produce to what she could get at Walmart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow. People actually use these meal kits? What is so hard about planning meals and going to the grocery store? What a complete waste of money!

Yes we love them. With the discounts, they aren’t that expensive. It is possible to meal plan and shop, but if you are a busy mom or college student, having pre portioned ingredients and the ability to try no meals with far less waste that shopping for one or two people. It is a great option.

I mean why ever go out to eat when it is far more expensive. People like variety and meal kits serve a great option!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I got a Tovala oven and ordered Tovala meals for a while to feed my starving college athlete extra meals when he was home during Covid, if that counts. They were quite tasty and required almost no work. I can’t really imagine him or most kids I know doing this on their own unless it was a local delivery. There is too much packaging to get rid of.

This is the laziest effing thing I have ever heard. A spoiled child having mommy and daddy pay for expensive meal kits for him, and he can't be bothered to throw away or recycle the wrapping it came in. PP, you should be embarrassed to admit this about your child. Honestly.

Have you ever used one? You are supposed to cut the gel packs, defrost them, and drain the contents into a sink (or squeeze the gel, if gel based, into compost). There is a lot to recycle separately. One of the main reasons I stopped is that dealing with the packaging properly was so annoying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow. People actually use these meal kits? What is so hard about planning meals and going to the grocery store? What a complete waste of money!

Everyday plate is $20 a meal for 4 people. It's way more affordable than buying things at the grocery store. And meal planning is an easy thing to outsource. I don't have to give it one thought.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow. People actually use these meal kits? What is so hard about planning meals and going to the grocery store? What a complete waste of money!

Everyday plate is $20 a meal for 4 people. It's way more affordable than buying things at the grocery store. And meal planning is an easy thing to outsource. I don't have to give it one thought.

It’s okay even cheaper for college students. We were forced to pay an obscene amount for a meal plan for freshman year: the food was inferior and many times most stations were closed. My kid did not get his moneys worth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I got a Tovala oven and ordered Tovala meals for a while to feed my starving college athlete extra meals when he was home during Covid, if that counts. They were quite tasty and required almost no work. I can’t really imagine him or most kids I know doing this on their own unless it was a local delivery. There is too much packaging to get rid of.

This is the laziest effing thing I have ever heard. A spoiled child having mommy and daddy pay for expensive meal kits for him, and he can't be bothered to throw away or recycle the wrapping it came in. PP, you should be embarrassed to admit this about your child. Honestly.

Wow. You’re even ruder than OP, with her weird insistence on trying to control what’s posted. Funny that such an innocuous topic can bring out the worst of DCUM. In any case, your hostile rant is off-base. I never said I ordered Tovala meals for my son. I ordered them for a while so I didn’t have to add extra work for myself or change my meal prep routine when the older kids unexpectedly came home from school during COVID. DH and I ate them occasionally as well, and he and I dealt with the trash and recycling, which was annoying and wasteful enough that I stopped ordering the meals.

Since there are probably some thoughtful posters on here who are interested in this topic, I’ll add that I now use Vegetable + Butcher delivery occasionally when I’m feeling too burned out to cook. I love that they take the packaging away each week and recycle the freezer packs. I think this sort of service is becoming increasingly common in big cities and would definitely be a nice option for a young adult looking to have tasty, healthy meals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I got a Tovala oven and ordered Tovala meals for a while to feed my starving college athlete extra meals when he was home during Covid, if that counts. They were quite tasty and required almost no work. I can’t really imagine him or most kids I know doing this on their own unless it was a local delivery. There is too much packaging to get rid of.

This is the laziest effing thing I have ever heard. A spoiled child having mommy and daddy pay for expensive meal kits for him, and he can't be bothered to throw away or recycle the wrapping it came in. PP, you should be embarrassed to admit this about your child. Honestly.

Wow. You’re even ruder than OP, with her weird insistence on trying to control what’s posted.

OP here. Not trying to control anything. Just asking for people who respond to keep to the topic and not offer their opinion on how wasteful they are and all the other peanut gallery comments. I mean if you have your own thoughts on the subject why not start your own thread, or skip the post if you have nothing to add. But do what you want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I got a Tovala oven and ordered Tovala meals for a while to feed my starving college athlete extra meals when he was home during Covid, if that counts. They were quite tasty and required almost no work. I can’t really imagine him or most kids I know doing this on their own unless it was a local delivery. There is too much packaging to get rid of.

This is the laziest effing thing I have ever heard. A spoiled child having mommy and daddy pay for expensive meal kits for him, and he can't be bothered to throw away or recycle the wrapping it came in. PP, you should be embarrassed to admit this about your child. Honestly.

Wow. You’re even ruder than OP, with her weird insistence on trying to control what’s posted.

OP here. Not trying to control anything. Just asking for people who respond to keep to the topic and not offer their opinion on how wasteful they are and all the other peanut gallery comments. I mean if you have your own thoughts on the subject why not start your own thread, or skip the post if you have nothing to add. But do what you want.

Logic, that is a dearth of that around here.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I got a Tovala oven and ordered Tovala meals for a while to feed my starving college athlete extra meals when he was home during Covid, if that counts. They were quite tasty and required almost no work. I can’t really imagine him or most kids I know doing this on their own unless it was a local delivery. There is too much packaging to get rid of.

This is the laziest effing thing I have ever heard. A spoiled child having mommy and daddy pay for expensive meal kits for him, and he can't be bothered to throw away or recycle the wrapping it came in. PP, you should be embarrassed to admit this about your child. Honestly.

Wow. You’re even ruder than OP, with her weird insistence on trying to control what’s posted.

OP here. Not trying to control anything. Just asking for people who respond to keep to the topic and not offer their opinion on how wasteful they are and all the other peanut gallery comments. I mean if you have your own thoughts on the subject why not start your own thread, or skip the post if you have nothing to add. But do what you want.

Logic, that is a dearth of that around here.

*there

[Anonymous]

we do the meal kits (3 kids, 2 parents with jobs, 3 travel sports) and I can't imagine a college age kid cooking them on any sort of regular basis. They take a lot of time and effort.

[Anonymous]

As a practical matter, how long are meal kit items designed to stay fresh? (just thinking out loud, as my kid mentioned HF, but will be living in an on-campus apt next year with delivery to the campus mailroom...)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:we do the meal kits (3 kids, 2 parents with jobs, 3 travel sports) and I can't imagine a college age kid cooking them on any sort of regular basis. They take a lot of time and effort.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a practical matter, how long are meal kit items designed to stay fresh? (just thinking out loud, as my kid mentioned HF, but will be living in an on-campus apt next year with delivery to the campus mailroom...)

48 hours. The cold packs and packaging are really great. We have a southern exposure and they have been fine in the summer sitting half a day on our porch even on the hottest days.