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[quote=Anonymous]During a very rough patch in my personal life, I stopped cooking and ordered a lot of takeout. As food became more expensive, I decided I needed to cut back on restaurants and cook more. I started ordering Home Chef meals to help me transition back to cooking without having to take on all of the planning, shopping and prep work right off the bat. The packaging waste is a real bummer, but most of it is recyclable.

The meals use a wide variety of spices and sauces and it’s nice not to have to buy the whole bottle. The meals tend to be very family friendly. Some are just a little spicy, but nothing is very spicy. There are tons of choices. You can substitute different proteins. The items that are really popular are in frequent rotation, but you can get different variations, so it’s not like eating the same thing all the time. One week there might be old fashioned meatloaf, the next it might be Italian meatloaf, the week after that it might be a pork meatloaf. Tacos might be traditional or vegetarian or Asian fusion. They offer super quick meals that already have some of the prep work done (you’re warming precooked mashed potatoes and adding a few ingredients or the vegetables are precut or the brisket is precooked and you’re just reheating it). They also have more deluxe meals using more expensive proteins or using more advanced (but still not difficult) culinary techniques.

The portions are a good size and you can order meals in increments of 2. There are 3 members in our household, so I’d order 4 of a given meal and then I’d eat one portion for lunch the next day. The meals are really for 2-4 portions. More than that and you might have trouble fitting everything in one pan/pot/baking sheet.

These meals were a good intermediate step back into the world of cooking. It felt too overwhelming to jump back into making everything from scratch. The kits helped me get comfortable in the kitchen again.
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