DH and I really need to dial back on our grocery spend each week. Not so much that we buy expensive food, but more that I do a weekly online shop and half of it goes to waste (this makes me cringe both for my bank balance and for the planet) as we work long hours and by the time I've put DS (age 1) to bed and DH has finally got home at 8pm we're often too knackered to cook and end up ordering a takeaway. Double whammy there in that food in the fridge goes off uneaten and gets binned, and then we effectively pay for another meal on top of the one we should have had.
I'm now wondering whether a Hello Fresh style system would be the answer. Pre-portioned so no waste, and menus for the Rapid box all take less than 20mins to prepare. I enjoy cooking and do try to batch cook at weekend, but there's only so many times you can have Bolognese... At least with HelloFresh we'd get variety beyond my limited repertoire of speedy stir fries, fajitas, pasta, etc. And best of all there's no meal planning involved, all that bloody time spent thinking of what to feed my family for the week.
Does anyone use mealkits? Can you give me honest opinions?
And to pre-empt all the slow cooker promoters... I had one and gave it away. DH and I both loathe casseroles (and to be honest anything that's been boiled for hours) so we never used it.
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Are meal kits worth it? Gousto, HelloFresh, etc.
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ArtichokeAardvark · 05/06/2019 14:42
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