On Sun, 23 Jul 2017 12:10:10 -0400, jmcquown >
wrote:

>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

Here, you pick what they send, as I understand it anyway.