Anonymous
Post 10/22/2012 22:23     Subject: Small meal planning survey

1. Are you at all interested in getting a weekly menu plan made for you (with a grocery list) and would you use it regularly?
If tasty, yes.
2. If yes to q#1, would you need it just for the workweek (5days) or for the weekend as well (6-7days)?
7 days
3. Is there a specific diet (such as low-carb, low-fat, etc) that you follow? Would some of you be interested in losing weight?
"Clean-eating": less animal fat as possible, low sugar (salt to taste), and complex carbs (whole grain). Small meat portions, other proteins such as egg, tofu or beans.
Also variety of menus from around the world (curry! banoffi pie! those little greek vine leaf dumpling things! sushi, but then you need special tools).

4. What is an absolute must when it comes to dinner? (i.e.: must be below 30min, must be easy to freeze/ bulk cook, must include veggies – or whatever!)
Balanced (veggies/fruit) and quick to make.


Anonymous
Post 10/22/2012 22:05     Subject: Re:Small meal planning survey

Anonymous wrote:I'm 13:11, here's an angle but still possibly too complicated.

You provide the recipes AND deliver the groceries to me. In advance, I can choose on your website which menus I wanted and can de-select items on the grocery list that I already have on-hand.

We schedule delivery, kind of like Peapod, and you deliver the freshly purchases groceries as well as the recipes to go with them.


I can see what you want here (I'd love that too, in fact!). It is something we are considering for future development -- connecting with stores and their systems to allow them to deliver you what you need. For now, for a variety of reasons we can't provide this option, but you can definitely already deselect items from our grocery lists.

As for the menus, what would be easier for you: checking the site every week to get a new one, or selecting them bi-weekly/monthly?

Anonymous
Post 10/22/2012 21:41     Subject: Re:Small meal planning survey

Anonymous wrote:

11:01 here - I probably would still consider it too complicated just based on the fact that I had to wade through 7 nights of recipes. Maybe if you could sign up for the days of the week you want a recipe on it would have proved more effortless.

I would not want or use lunch or snack recipes since we do not take anything fancy for lunch or eat lunch out and my child eats a typical grade school packed lunch.

I think the PP is right though- there are already a ton of these services that exist. What would make yours new or different?


I can see a trend for the 4-5 days instead of the 7 days. We will take this into consideration to provide just what people need while still creating a menu that makes sense (so that, for instance, leftover ingredients are minimized).

As for how our service would be different -- we really want to focus on healthy food. Help people eat less junk and feed their families good meals. Most of the plans we've seen out there sacrifice a lot in terms of good nutrition for the sake of convenience and our goal is to prove that you can have convenience, taste, and wholesome ingredients. (I posted a bit earlier than you a more complete description in response to the PP.)