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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do not enjoy grocery shopping at all. I enjoy cooking sometimes but the drudgery of cooking dinner every night, planned around activities to the extent possible, planned with some degree of health/nutrition/variety, all while not totally disregarding family members strongest dislikes though is not the cooking I enjoy.

We started doing a meal subscription because it alleviates some of that. My spouse enjoys cooking from explicit directions but normally was minimally involved in dinner (i.e. cook one portion hit never plan or cook a whole meal). With a meal kit, I do no cooking so I get a break. We don’t do them all the time - probably every other week - so it gives us some variety as well. My spouse cooks things he never would otherwise and gets ingredients he would shy away from.

We still cook plenty of meals. Actually since starting the meal kits we do less dining out or take out and cook from scratch (non-kit) dinners about the same frequency. So, it works for us and we find it fun.[/quote]

I mean, nothing has inspired me to feel the drudgery of cooking than opening a box and going, "oh fudge, I've got to do what with the wonton wrappers?" when ordinarily if I got home and found myself too frazzled to deal with the planned recipe, I would just tell the kids it's breakfast for dinner. Instead I feel obligated to do whatever the eff they tell me with those stupid wonton wrappers.

I think one thing that I have embraced wholeheartedly is bagged salad kits. That's an area where I feel like I want better options, but don't feel like i can handle going to three grocery stores, because it turns out that two of them only sell buffalo-chicken flavored baseball-themed sunflower seeds, and I can just grab a bag that has the tiny mini-bag with all the weird little additions that make a salad interesting. So, probably same idea, but upscaled to a whole meal.[/quote]

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