Which meal kit does your college student use?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A meal kit is cheaper than dinner out with all of the discount codes available. It allows for less waste and is highly sustainable. All operators have varying degrees of food quality, with Marley Spoon being the worst in our experience. It is a great way to supplement weekly meals while learning to cook. Some are more intensive than others. All send you recipe cards so you can replicate. Kids don’t have to suffer through Cup Noodle if they don’t want to.

The recipe cards are also available online for free - requiring only that your darling child actually go to a grocery store. You can buy ingredients for a single meal, you know. Or even (gasp!) eat leftovers!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A meal kit is cheaper than dinner out with all of the discount codes available. It allows for less waste and is highly sustainable. All operators have varying degrees of food quality, with Marley Spoon being the worst in our experience. It is a great way to supplement weekly meals while learning to cook. Some are more intensive than others. All send you recipe cards so you can replicate. Kids don’t have to suffer through Cup Noodle if they don’t want to.

The recipe cards are also available online for free - requiring only that your darling child actually go to a grocery store. You can buy ingredients for a single meal, you know. Or even (gasp!) eat leftovers!

Why does every effing thread or post here have to have posters who have nothing to actually help the poster answer their question with their rude comments how it wouldn’t work for them or some such nonsense. If you can’t help just move along.

To the OP, we like the consistency of the ingredients with Every Plate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A meal kit is cheaper than dinner out with all of the discount codes available. It allows for less waste and is highly sustainable. All operators have varying degrees of food quality, with Marley Spoon being the worst in our experience. It is a great way to supplement weekly meals while learning to cook. Some are more intensive than others. All send you recipe cards so you can replicate. Kids don’t have to suffer through Cup Noodle if they don’t want to.

The recipe cards are also available online for free - requiring only that your darling child actually go to a grocery store. You can buy ingredients for a single meal, you know. Or even (gasp!) eat leftovers!

Good luck buying in quantities that small.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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."

[Anonymous]

I lived briefly in a condo in Seattle that was home to a lot of young people, including some college students.

Every night the lobby was stacked with meal kits. And most of them were still there in the morning... and the next day. And then they were in the trash bins.

We actually got a memo that the HOA was raising the monthly fee to pay for a second weekly trash pick up because of all the extra unopened boxes of rotting food.

[Anonymous]

It's called the university cafeteria meal plan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A meal kit is cheaper than dinner out with all of the discount codes available. It allows for less waste and is highly sustainable. All operators have varying degrees of food quality, with Marley Spoon being the worst in our experience. It is a great way to supplement weekly meals while learning to cook. Some are more intensive than others. All send you recipe cards so you can replicate. Kids don’t have to suffer through Cup Noodle if they don’t want to.

The recipe cards are also available online for free - requiring only that your darling child actually go to a grocery store. You can buy ingredients for a single meal, you know. Or even (gasp!) eat leftovers!

Good luck buying in quantities that small.

Maybe you should have taught them multiplication and they could make a larger portion and freeze the leftovers

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's called the university cafeteria meal plan.

Unhealthy overpriced food with several stations not open this past year. Required for freshmen and as now living off campus in an apartment. Much cheaper than uni wants for their meal plan. We feel a great way to supplement their diet with minimal muss and fuss.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

[Anonymous]

OP here. Using a meal kit is no less lazy than making a choice to go out to dinner. For a pro choice leaning message board, there seems to be a lot of animosity against people making a choice different than they do for their kids at college.

We use them primarily for the reasons of convenience and for expanding our weekly menu offering new ideas we had never considered. With a busy schedule of a college student; it provides a choice and easy way to make dinner also while teaching cooking skills with little waste.

College students sharing an apartment really don’t have room for 100s of ingredients just waiting to make a meal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Using a meal kit is no less lazy than making a choice to go out to dinner. For a pro choice leaning message board, there seems to be a lot of animosity against people making a choice different than they do for their kids at college.

We use them primarily for the reasons of convenience and for expanding our weekly menu offering new ideas we had never considered. With a busy schedule of a college student; it provides a choice and easy way to make dinner also while teaching cooking skills with little waste.

College students sharing an apartment really don’t have room for 100s of ingredients just waiting to make a meal.

+1000 @@@@@@@@!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

My grad and her roommates tried a few meal kits but hated
all the packaging. Not just the cold packs but every ingredient wrapped in plastic and sometimes multiple packages for the 4 people. It’s just a horrific amount of trash for anyone who’s more conscious about single use plastics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

+1 Lots of people on DCUM who never learned how to cook, but like to pretend in their $200K kitchen renovations. Of course they’ll think meal kits for college students are a great idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My grad and her roommates tried a few meal kits but hated
all the packaging. Not just the cold packs but every ingredient wrapped in plastic and sometimes multiple packages for the 4 people. It’s just a horrific amount of trash for anyone who’s more conscious about single use plastics.

My kid just shook their head when I told them some prefer plastic plates & spoons in their Dorm so they would not have to (good grief) wash their dishes!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Using a meal kit is no less lazy than making a choice to go out to dinner. For a pro choice leaning message board, there seems to be a lot of animosity against people making a choice different than they do for their kids at college.

We use them primarily for the reasons of convenience and for expanding our weekly menu offering new ideas we had never considered. With a busy schedule of a college student; it provides a choice and easy way to make dinner also while teaching cooking skills with little waste.

College students sharing an apartment really don’t have room for 100s of ingredients just waiting to make a meal.

+1000 @@@@@@@@!!!!!!

There are plenty of tasty recipes with little ingredients. However, one must have interest to begin with to google for those. Way easier not to think and just have them delivered. The thing they are missing out though is learning to planning, organize and execute inexpensive tasty meals. Something that I consider a life skill.