My hubby and I have been experimenting with a Meal Kit Delivery Service. I know, I know, we’re late to the game and I’m sure this has been talked–blogged–about to death. Still, several people have been asking me about our experience (and even asking for pictures of the cooked meals. Yes, I’m including photos.) Considering the interest I decided I would do a multi-part blog series on the subject.
This is the first installment.
I realize this has nothing to do with writing, but I figured it’d be fun.
My hubby and I started our meal kit delivery service because of a gift card we got for Christmas. The gift card covered about 90% of the cost. I wasn’t so sure about the idea, but I didn’t want the gift card to go to waste. So, we signed up.
We got to pick three meals (each meal was two servings) for a single week. They give you a total of six different meal options to pick from, which is nice. When I saw the dinners, and I wasn’t sold. A lot, of the food seemed to be stuff I wasn’t keen on eating. But, then I remembered gift card and away I went.
Waiting almost four days for the delivery was a bit annoying, but I get it. They deliver all over the country, so waiting for the delivery to our area was fine. Finally, our meals showed up. It was on a Wednesday (that is now our delivery day). The meals arrived in a medium size box.
I was yet to be impressed. I can’t say what I expected for the deliver but seeing the box arrive as is was a disappointment.
So, I brought the box home, and we unpacked it.
This is where my opinion started to change. They included everything, and the food was still cool because of how they packed it (they had it wrapped in an insulated blanket-type-thing with the meats on the bottom packed between two chemical ice packs). To my surprise, the meats were still frozen, and the veggies felt like they had been in the refrigerator.
We couldn’t cook anything that night because nothing was thawed, so we had to wait till the next night to cook our hamburger and our red cabbage slaw.
We waited.
The next night once we got home we started to cook. The vendor included easy full-page directions with color photos of each step (nice touch on their part). They couldn’t have made it any easier for us unless they came over and prepared it.
We cooked our way through the directions (the hardest part was cutting the cabbage for the slaw). The service provided everything we would need to cook with the exception of pans, pots, salt, pepper, and olive oil.
That impressed me.
The cooking experience was a blast. We enjoy cooking, so that was an easy sell for us. The whole process, from prep, to eat, to clean up, took us about an hour and a half (when we cook this is about how much time it normally takes us), so that wasn’t bad.
When we sat down to eat, the meal was excellent. It was different from how we normally eat a burger, but it was still good, really good (sorry no picture of the burger and the slaw).
The rest of the meals, to date, have gone much the same way, with little variation in prep to clean up time.
Here are the pictures of our first seven meals.
I’ll stop here. In the next part I’ll talk about portions, and the value for the dollar. Stay tuned