On 7/23/2017 6:43 AM, wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jul 2017 02:21:26 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> > wrote:
>
>> On Sat 22 Jul 2017 04:45:12p, jmcquown told us...
>>
>>> Here's an article which states they aren't all that. And no, they
>>> won't make you and your children have a better time together.
>>>
>>> http://time.com/4863064/amazon-meal-...apron-cooking/
>>>
>>> Meanwhile, sorry but I'd rather not. I'm pretty good putting
>>> meals together without someone sending ingredients in a box.
>>>
>>> Jill
>>
>> It's an interesting concept, but I'm not so sure that I would want
>> everything they send to make the meal. In my case, and I'm sure in the
>> case of many other people, there's a situation where one person likes
>> one thing, another person likes something else, and that only
>> multiplies with the number people who will be eating. If you're really
>> a spontaneous cook, you're might not be in the mood for what arrives.
>>
>> There are more variables, of course, and that in itself can make it
>> problamatic.
>>
>> All that aside, how good is the food? Not having read or researched
>> the options, how many companies are now offering this meal in a box?
>>
>> We keep a well stocked refrigerator, freezer, and pantry, and I
>> consider myself a pretty decent cook and have been planning meals for
>> over 50 years. I don't I need it.
>
> I can see situations where it would be useful - there's a woman down
> the hall from me who fell, smashed her arm and broke her hip. She is
> home finally after time in rehab, this would solve a few problems for
> her! Back in the day when we were both working, had three kids, I
> would have enjoyed a break occasionally. Usually the night we picked
> up the groceries we would swing past KFC but an alternative would have
> been nice once in awhile.
>
> If you are very busy, or are inconvenienced then a delivered meal
> might be tempting. They have 'Meals to go" in my supermarket but I
> don't bother, not my sort of taste and expensive, but they sell.
>
You do understand they simply deliver the *ingredients* to you, right?
Raw. Comes with a recipe. You still have to do all the prep work and
the actual cooking. Using knives, pots and pans. These meal kits are
not something you just heat and eat.

Jill