Reply to Feelings on meal-prep boxes? Personally, I've never understood the appeal...

Forum Index » Food, Cooking, and Restaurants

Reply to "Feelings on meal-prep boxes? Personally, I've never understood the appeal..."

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have done them periodically but I mostly agree with you OP. The issue is having time to cook in the evening (and sometimes having energy even when we have time). Choosing a menu or buying ingredients isn't that hard. Usually one of us can pick up anything we need on the way home from work or school pickup and this doesn't take much more time than selecting menus and arranging delivery of a meal kit.

We prefer to just cook at home and make big batches so we have leftovers, which helps with the time and energy issue. Plus it's cheaper and then when we truly just don't want to cook we can get takeout. I'd rather spend any extra food budget on that than on meal kits because that's a lot more of a treat.[/quote]

Yeah... this all makes a lot of sense.

A box of spaghetti, a jar of tomato sauce and a bag of frozen meatballs costs $13, it's not fancy or interesting, but the kids will devour it and it takes no effort at the end of the long day.

I feel like, too many people think too hard about meal planning. My mom, who was not a fancy cook, had about 12 things in her repertoire, none of which were complex, and there were just enough that it wasn't super repetitious. And in the summer, mix in hamburgers, hot dogs, grilled chicken, steak, and a dozen simple recipes can get you a long way.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics