What's your honest opinion about full food delivery services ? Meaning stuff like Seazon who delivers at home once or twice a week enough already cooked meals you just have to microwaved. You preselect what you want between a selection, calories are already counted, there's enoug variety for everyone... It's often seen as overpriced but they have first month promos who are honestly cheaper than doing groceries yourself.
Have you ever tried that? Sounds good to follow a diet.
My wife cooks our meals while I'm at work
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sounds like tv dinners with extra steps
If you want it's TV dinners but planned for the week to be healthy and balances, from a selection variety changing every week and following the seasonal products, delivered directly at home.
are you a sales rep
No. I've actually never tried it but people are pushing me to give it a try so they I have the in entire speech in mind. Wanna see if you guys already did stuff like that.
you're in the cooking board, I don't think anyone here would do that, they're all cooking enthusiasts. tho you might get something out of it if you don't have the time/energy to cook a good meal and you can justify the price
Yeah well most of the threads seems to be about fastfood, frozen dinners and premade snacks...
or I can just buy the tv dinners I want at the grocery store for the week
But aren't they well known for being unhealthy and of shitty quality ? I've seen what would looks like "high class" TV dinners where I shop.
TV dinners cover a wide range of quality, just don't buy the shitty ones or better yet cook for yourself. besides, how do you know these are any better than the bougie tv dinners?
Depends on which kind you get. They have all sorts in the freezer section.
Frozen Pizza = fatty McFat town carb loading
Hungry Man = big portion of slop
Marie Calendars = mid calorie slop
Steamers = "healthy", tiny portions, diet slop
Plant shit = TV dinners for vegans
Branded stuff = high calorie slop (aka White Castle stuff, Hot Pockets, etc)
All of it will be low-tier ingredients. Cheap beef, processed chicken or beef patties, shit veggies, garbo rice, fake cheese, tons of soy. Plenty of preservatives.
I doubt any of these "services" provide good quality ingredients. Guaranteed they cost-cut to make profit, which means ingredients will be low-tier to make it cheap and appealing to poorfags. Especially where steak is involved.
Eating pre-made food delivered to your door for you to heat up is like, institutionalised. You are basically a prisoner, or a caged animal. You are human cattle. It sounds dystopic - peak subservience to the System. Just like the eternal boomer, microwaving their children's future for their own personal convenience.
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I've been considering it, I'm at the point in my income trajectory that it might make sense for me to start paying for some conveniences. Right now I've just been cooking batch meals to minimize prep time. My only concern is none of them seem like enough food, I'm a hungry fella.
You have it backward, it's a kind of freedom not to have to worry about things sometimes. I did a field research trip to the desert and they served all meals in the canteen. After a day in the hot sun it was great to just pull up a chair and have a balanced meal without having to think about cooking.
>without having to think about cooking
There is a time and place for this. It totally makes sense that high powered people who are busy making decisions don't have time and need to outsource cooking to a chef. Same for military folks who are busy running shit - you offload those tasks to cooks so you can fling the jets off the carrier or get training shit done or whatever. Even corpo cafeterias make sense - you get your workers fed without them having to leave and come back, or worry about bringing their own shit.
But that has consequences - the cooks have to have some level of skill, or you are eating slop. Often literally, from a can. And it can get pretty fucking bad. And that is before you factor in fast food employee level misbehavior. Rank plays a big factor here - plebs get shit, officers get class, and where you fall dictates service & quality levels.
But this kind of thing is just glorified TV dinner, or a TV dinner with extra steps. It's not an actual meal that was prepped for you. You still have to heat it, and then look at it and get depressed.
I'd rather spend that 5min microwave time cooking something, even if parts of it come from cans.
I looked at blue apron and some of these meal delivery services a while back to see if it would actually be interesting to do. I was not impressed by the meal selection. Generally speaking, I have not been impressed with any of the meal service options I have looked at. So I never progressed into assessing if it would be economical or worth it to switch. It's not worth it if I can't eat all the options. Most of this shit feels like hipster meals I'd never touch.
Closest thing I equate this to is buying MRE cases. You get a dozen or whatever meals: one is your favorite, some are good, some are meh, one is terrible as fuck because its veg/vegan garbage. An MRE is about $10/meal when bought as a case, and that is cheap compared to the $12.50 places like Blue Apron charge. Personally, I'd rather have the MRE - it lasts for years (or longer if cold weather MRE), and it's basically portable canned food. Even self heats if you open fast enough (the heaters tend to die over time). And even the veg one is tolerable compared to the weird shit BA wants you to eat.
I don't advocate for eating MREs as your primary food source. They suck for that, you will get sick of them - it's basically field survival food. You are better off doing canned food - it is cheaper and often times more tasty.
I guess this shit would be great for following a diet - clear the house of any and all food products, then get the service for reduced calories. Then you can't help but follow the diet/portions your corpo overlord set for you. Until you break and order fast food.
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I just revisited Blue Apron, and fuck they have nothing but hipster meals that take 45 min to cook. While I don't mind spending time to make shit that is worth it, like BBQ, I am not spending a full fucking hour doing some hipster shit I won't even like. My dinner tonight took like 15 min, I don't want to take a full fucking hour every fucking day of the week.
Just doing a bit of googling shows me these services have exploded into dozens of copy cats.
I dunno man. I'd rather have full control over my food. If I want pre-prepared shit, I will either make it myself or get it from the freezer section. Plus I don't want to have a bin full of garbage every fucking week from all the packages and shit.