On Sun, 23 Jul 2017 10:51:28 -0400, jmcquown >
wrote:

>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

I am not an idiot you know! Yes I understand that but it takes much
of the doing out of it, it becomes mindless.