On 7/23/2017 11:09 AM, wrote:
> 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!

I never said you were an idiot.

> Yes I understand that but it takes much
> of the doing out of it, it becomes mindless.
>
I suppose. It alleviates the need to shop, for sure. But someone else
chooses what the meal will be. What if you're not in the mood for
whatever they send?

Jill